Byzantine Blog

While the indicted war criminal, Agim Ceku is being received at the highest level of the U.S. Government in Washington, by the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in order to promote independence for his criminal enterprise in occupied Serbian region of Kosovo and Metohija, Ceku's constituents and partners in crime have stepped up the campaign of violence in an effort to drive the remaining Serbs out of Kosovo.

On July 16, 2006, they opened fire on two British tourists whose only crime was that they drove around Kosovo in a car with Belgrade licence plates. Few days later, on July 19, they vandalized yet another church, the Church of the Holy Virgin in Obilic, near Pristina. These fine upstanding men in whose name NATO waged a war on Serbs and launched tens of thousands of tons of explosive (over 23.000 tons of explosive) during three months of bombardment of Serbia, have ripped four crosses off the lateral domes of the church, tore part of the roof and broke church windows.

After Bishop Artemije of Raska-Prizren Diocese named the culprits and publicly accused Kosovo Albanians for the attack, the so-called Council for Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms from Pristina issued a press release saying Serbs are lying - there was no attack on this church, except for the Kosovo Kristallnacht two years ago, when Albanians did vandalize it. If it wasn't for the meticulous documentation and before and after pictures, the no-they-didn't “argument” might have had some chance.

Yesterday, on July 20, 2006, a 68-year old Serb returnee, Dragan Popovic, was found shot dead in his house in Klina, Kosovo and Metohija. Murdered man was living alone and was one of around fifty Serbs who have dared to return to their homes in Kosovo a year ago, after being forcibly expelled by Albanian Muslims occupying Kosovo.

Today, Kosovo Albanians have desecrated the Orthodox cemetery in Staro Gracko near Lipljan. They have destroyed 16 gravestones and desecrated, among others, the graves of 14 Serbian harvesters that were massacred by Albanian Muslims on July 23, 1999, while working in their fields. But this was the result of less effective plan B, since plan A failed: two days before Memorial Saturday, on June 8, locals have found a landmine in this cemetery, planted there before Memorial Saturday so that it would explode when the family members of the deceased came to visit the graves of their loved ones. The planted landmine was reported and removed by the members of KFOR.

This is only the latest from the long list of desecrated Orthodox cemeteries in Serbian region of Kosovo and Metohija. After the province was “freed” by NATO in 1999 and the UN Mission in Kosovo began, hundreds of Serbian cemeteries throughout the Province have been desecrated or turned into garbage lots. Thousands of crosses were broken or smashed into pieces. On several locations the bones of the dead were scattered out.

The Church of St. Andrew in Podujevo was also targeted today. After being torched and destroyed during the March 2004 pogrom, when the altar was blown up with explosives and the crosses on the church wrenched off by Albanians as recorded on a video available on the web site of Serbian Orthodox Church, the destroyed altar section of the church was repaired and a new door and windows were installed in November 2005, as part of the restoration project headed by the Council of Europe. Today, for the third time in this year alone, Albanian terrorists have vandalized the same church again. They broke down the entrance door and the windows again and wrote new derogatory graffiti on the walls of the church, signing it all with a well-known trademark of Kosovo jihadist's: UCK (KLA).

To paraphrase Albanian terrorist from Brooklyn, Florin Krasniqi: "This is your KLA, Messrs. Clinton, Clark, Blair, Schröder and Chirac". This is your KLA and your responsibility.