Posted on 06/25/2002 4:25:19 PM PDT by crazykatz
SERBIAN ORTHODOX DIOCESE OF RASKA AND PRIZREN COMMUNIQUE
For immediate release
SERBIAN ORTHODOX CEMETERY NEAR PRISTINA FOUND DESECRATED Pristina, June 24, 2002.
Fr. Zoran Filipovic, the Serbian Orthodox parish priest from Babin Most and Milosevo, confirmed today to the Diocesan Information Service that the Serbian cemetery at Milosevo, 10 km north from Pristina, was found desecrated.
On Saturday, June 22, Fr. Zoran and a group of his parishioners, escorted by KFOR, visited the cemetery at Milosevo village to perform the annual commemoration service. Upon arrival to the site they were shocked to see at least 70 tombstones desecrated. "There is almost not a single tomb which has not been damaged. But the most painful for us was to see the photos of the deceased on the tombstones with their eyes gouged out. For us that was more distressing than to see the tombstones toppled, " Fr. Zoran said . The priest could not say when the incident occurred and could only confirm that the last year on this day the cemetery stood intact while he with his parishioners performed the commemoration service. Fr. Zoran has written a letter of protest to the local UN administrator in the Municipality of Obilic to which Milosevo belongs.
Belgrade based TANJUG News Agency reported today that the UNMIK police spokesman Barry Fletcher said that this incident had not been reported to the UN Mission yet.
Beside the recently reported desecrations of cemeteries in Djakovica, Pec and Orahovac this latest event confirms the fear of Bishop Artemije who seriously suspects that all Serb cemeteries out of guarded enclaves might have been damaged or completely destroyed by Kosovo Albanians.
Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren with its faithful people and clergy most strongly condemns such acts of barbarism and urgently requests from UNMIK and KFOR to protect the remaining Serbian patrimonial sites according to their obligation formulated in the UN Security Council Resolution 1244.
"By their tolerating systematic desecration of Christian Orthodox holy sites in Kosovo Metohija, the UN Mission and KFOR are seen directly responsible in the eyes of the Serbian people and the Church. According to our knowledge, not a single perpetrator has been brought to justice for these crimes so far, which cannot be justified and is utterly disgraceful. The silence and even shameless denials by the leading Kosovo Albanian officials, who accuse the Church of propaganda, even more confirm overtly antidemocratic and discriminatory orientation of the new Albanian-dominated institutions in Kosovo and Metohija and seriously discourage further Serb participation. With this pattern of behavior Kosovo is not heading towards Europe but is becoming the most uncivilized and backward part of the continent," said Fr. Sava (Janjic) in his comment on occasion of the incident at Milosevo.
"The leaders who are not capable of showing responsible leadership and do nothing to prevent destruction of Kosovo's centuries old Christian monuments do not act on behalf of all citizens but directly serve the narrow interests of Albanian nationalists. Such leaders cannot be accepted by the Serbian people as their own because they lead Kosovo's communities towards further confrontation. International community must not be deceived by empty rethoric and should request urgent concrete steps by the Government and the Parliament to finally bring to an end such behavior," concluded Fr. Sava.
Information Service of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren, Kosovo and Metohija. Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren
Gee, I hate that guy and his kla buddies!
Decani Monastery guarded by Italian KFOR
Without KFOR protection all Serb Orthodox monasteries and churches
would be destroyed by Albanians.
The Map of Destroyed Churches and Monasteries in Kosovo and Metohia
More examples of the UN and NATO acting as muslim collaborators!!!!
It is Americans who served and continue to serve as muslim collaborators, apologists, and shills that brought the attacks of Sept. 11th upon us, and invite all the subversion being visited against us by muslim fifth columnists. It is the same collaborators, apologists, and shills, especially those in high places, who are weakening the ability of Americans to resist and to defeat this dastardly enemy, both at home and abroad.
Anyone who thinks that the anti-Christian actions by "Western" elites and their muslim thugs being carried out in the Balkans only hurts the Serbs, and that they are far, far away from Americans and their concerns, is just NOT AWAKE!!!!
Nevermind...we ALL know, just by your comment.
Texas must have thrown you out!!
There are many of us who know why nato has let all the albanians get away with this crap....they are making the world safe for muslim drug smugglers and white slavers.
European liberals and georgie soros need their drugs and their sex slave business because.......THOSE "businesses" put money into the coffers of soros and his ilk...to use for their OTHER DEVILISH LIBERAL CAUSES!!
If a Serb were to even attempt to throw a potato at an albanian muslim in KosovO, the forces of nato would cream him into spam!
It was his stinking war and his responsiblity, but tying it to 9/11 is disgusting and insane. Knock it off.
Those poor dead Serbs were just laying there in the ground and some shi++y albanian islamic jihadists come along and disturb their graves...and the peace. NOT TO MENTION, Blowing-up HUNDREDS of their CHRISTIAN Churches.
Then, on FR some twit (tropal-JACK__)....residing in Croatia, comes along and compares what happened in a civil war( IF it did happen at all)....with this Continued ISLAMIC TERRORISM IN KOSOVO all of which is occurring UNDER THE WATCHFUL NOSE OF THOUSANDS OF NATO TROOPS!!
Of all the nerve.... he seems almost klintoonesque!!
American service people, in Bosnia are always on alert for islamics.
In fact, one islamic charity out of Chicago had been funneling money to muslim extremists in Bosnia for YEARS. The Bush administration has shut them down!!
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