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Kosovo police will be securing Gazimestan in future |
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16 March 2010.
 In Gazimestan, Kosmet, near Pristina, KFOR began the procedure of handing over the security of that monument to the Kosovo police. At the moment, KFOR Slovakian soldiers, together with Kosovo police members, are establishing the factual condition of the monument and its surroundings. The official handover was to be performed in several days and the police in the Pristina district of Vranjevac will be in charge of security. This is the first case in which the Kosovo police will be in charge of the security of Serb cultural monuments. In 1389, Gazimestan was the site of the historic Battle of Kosovo, between the Serbian and Turkish army. The Serbian Army was defeated then, but the battle, that marked the fall of the strong Serbian medieval state, became the foundation of the Serbian state-forming tradition. In memory of the Battle of Kosovo, a monument was built in Gazimestan in 1953 and was mined and demolished by Albanian extremists in 1999.
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