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Here is what the Serbian Orthodox Church leaders have to say about your hero:

"Perhaps there was more silence than there had to be, perhaps the Church or Church officials should have spoken out more loudly. But I'm afraid that no Christian can support the values that the Milosevic regime supports. That person cannot be a Christian." -- Father Sava, aide to Artemije, commenting on the Church's failure to firmly oppose Milosevic until recently.

"If the only way to create a greater Serbia is by crime, I don't accept it. Let Serbia disappear." -- Patriarch Pavle, quoted in the "Los Angeles Times" of 29 June.

This year's commemoration of the Battle of Kosovo Polje "differs from the previous ones: there will be no hypocrisy in it, in its celebration the godless leaders of our people will take no part." -- Statement of the Serbian Orthodox Church on 27 June.

"The root of all evil." -- Artemije and Trajkovic, on Vidovdan, describing Milosevic.

"Thanks to [Milosevic's] policies, there are no more Serbs in Krajina, there are no more Serbs in Slavonia, there are no more Serbs in western Bosnia, and Serbia has received about 60,000 refugees who are still not being well cared for." -- Artemije