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Independent Kosovo Would be Cancer of Europe

MOSCOW, Russia, October 12 (Interfax) - An independent Kosovo would lead to an irreparable tragedy for all of Europe, Bishop Artemije of Ras-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija has said.

“I would compare an independent Kosovo to a cancer, which would affect all of Europe, not only the regions surrounding it,” Bishop Artemije said at a press conference at the Interfax main office in Moscow on Thursday.

In the seven years the peacekeeping contingent has been present in Kosovo, that province “has become a European black hole where crime, drugs, weapons, and human trafficking thrive,” he said.

“An independent Kosovo would become a base for extremist forces, and its separation from Serbia would lead to the complete elimination of the Christian community and all traces of the thousand-year history of Christianity in that area,” he said.

150 Churches Destroyed, 400 Mosques Built

Since the moment the KFOR contingent arrived in Kosovo, over 150 Orthodox churches and monasteries there have been destroyed. In the same period, over 400 mosques have been built in that territory with financial support from Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries, he said.

In addition, 250,000 Serbs have been expelled from Kosovo, over 1,300 Serbs have been killed and about as many have gone missing, Bishop Artemije said. Tens of thousands of Serbian homes and hundreds of villages have been destroyed over this time, he said.

“The time of persecutions and fear continues for the Serbs and other non-Albanian ethnic groups,” he said.

Remains of Serbs Killed by Albanian Muslims in Kosovo

Tanjug reports on October 13 that representatives of the Commission on Missing Persons and over 100 relatives of Serbian victims gathered at the KFOR headquarters on the administrative crossing of Merdare on Friday to take over 29 coffins with the mortal remains exhumed from the mass grave in Kosovo-Metohija.

According to the news agency, the bodies of 11 members of the Kostic family and two of the Nikolic family from the village of Retimlje, as well as the remains of eight Serbs from the village of Opterusa and those of two persons of Serb nationality from Orahovac and Malisevska Banja respectively were exhumed from the mass grave.

All of the victims were first kidnapped by members of the terrorist, so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) on June 17-19, and then thrown into the mass grave of Volujak cave, near Malisevo.

Losing the Right to Kosovo

Being that the main pro-independence “argument” of Albanian al-Qaeda holding southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija under siege and of their lobbyists in the West is that “Serbs have lost the right to claim Kosovo as their province” after the war with terrorist KLA in 1998-1999, how about facing the facts and admitting Albanian terrorists never had the right to a chunk of Serbian state in the first place?

For those who, contrary to all the common sense and reason, still like to think Albanian Muslim terrorists did have a right to secede part of someone else’s country, they have certainly lost the last shred of that “right” during the past seven years, while regularly supplying the world with the news such as the above, about the mass-graves for Serbs, abductions, tortures, murders and continuous campaign of ethnic cleansing conducted under the very noses of the “international community.”

No decent person with functional brain can fail to see Albanian Muslim terrorists have screwed up royally, like no one before, like no one else could -- they were supported by all the western power centers to wage the war against Serbs, they were touted as Serbian victims throughout the world, they were given the immense NATO air power to hijack Serbian southern province from Serbia, their crimes and terror were routinely swept under the rug and kept hidden from the public for over a decade, they have been supported by the Left, Right and middle through the seven years of murder, pillage and rape of Serbia, they have been allowed to wipe the Christianity off the face of Kosovo and keep building the mosques with Bin Laden’s, Iranian and Saudi money across Serbian Jerusalem...

All they had to do was PRETEND they are capable of common decency, sit still, stop abducting, torturing and killing non-Albanians, refrain from demolishing the last church and monastery standing and simply WAIT to be given part of Serbia on a silver platter. But they couldn’t do even that, no one managed to put a stop to their bestiality, brutality and savagery, not even for one week out of a decade of international servility in pandering to their will and wishes.

Now, they haven’t only lost the bare minimum of the good will generated by the tireless lobbying millions of heroin-dollars provided, they have clearly demonstrated they never were the victims to begin with -- on the contrary, they were attacking and victimizing others all along.

The only ones who have lost the right to a single handful of Kosovo land are Kosovo Albanians themselves, by behaving like a bunch of screwed-up, bloodthirsty, savage apes.