[blau993]

Your reply is very legalistic. Let's get practical. Of course I am not suggesting that the monks commited atrocities. But the Serbs did, and the local population, whether they are there legally or illegally, is probably not going to make that distinction. The monastaries may indeed be historical treasures (and, by the way, monastic orders take many forms and perform many functions), but sometimes nasty current events have a way of intruding intrude on romantic memories. The monks are highly likely to get killed where they are. I don't think it is right for them to abdicate all responsibility for their own safety, which is what I took from the story.

[kimosabe31]

Of course I am not suggesting that the monks commited atrocities. But the Serbs did, and the local population (albanian muslims...right), whether they are there legally or illegally, is probably not going to make that distinction.

You're watching too much CNN Blau. If you look around the world, everywhere muslims have parked themselves they cause trouble. They cause trouble (terrorism)in order to force the authorities to crack down on them (i.e.,Kosovo, Chechnya, Kashmir, Phillipines, etc). Then they scream that their human rights are being violated in order to win the sympathy of the world community and create a pretext for further violence against the traditional inhabitants of the targeted land...the ultimate goal being to dispossess and ethnically cleanse the rightful inhabitants and make them refugees in their own land as are many Bosnian and Kosovo Serbs at this time and as will be the Orthodox monks if they even survive their ordeal of KFOR "protection".

You want to "slough off" the fact that the behavior of german KFOR is a direct threat to the religious rights as well as the physical safety of Christian Serbs in the Prizren area with the justification that "Serbs did some pretty nasty things". That tells me that you are either a clinton "groupie" or an al qaeda. Bottom line: you have to be an a$$hole in either case.