Kosovo Province: Another Church Desecrated, Another Priest Harrassed
Chained Christianity: Ruins of Djakovica Cathedral in southern Serbian Kosovo-Metohija province surrounded by barbed wire.
Albanian Muslims Vandalize and Desecrate Another Church in Kosovo Province
GRACANICA, Serbia (Kosovo-Metohija province), Jan. 8, 2007 - Albanian Muslim terrorists have desecrated the Ss. Peter and Paul Church in the village near Pristina, in the night between January 7 and 8, on Eastern Orthodox Christmas. The members of white al-Qaeda terrorizing the non-Albanian residents in southern Serbian province since June 1999 (when the UN/NATO occupied this part of Serbia), have vandalized the Serbian church they have broken into and stole a number of icons and donations collected on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
This latest crime is just another on the long list of innumerable ethnically and religiously motivated crimes Serbian Kosovo-Metohija province has been plagued with for the past seven years.
Since the so-called “international community” undertook the administration and protection of the southern Serbian province, Albanian Muslim terrorists have destroyed over 150 churches and monasteries in Kosovo, many of them from the 13th and 14th century. Over 330,000 mostly Serbs, but also Jews, Roma and members of other (non-Albanian) ethnicities have been ethnically cleansed from the province, their villages pillaged and burned, their graveyards destroyed and desecrated. In seven short years since NATO has been keeping the “peace,” more than thousand of Serbs have been killed, several thousands abducted and presumed dead.
Serbs and other non-Albanians remaining in Kosovo province are forced to live in barb-wired ghettos and are unable to move without armed protection of the foreign troops.
Albanian Muslim “Police” Terrorizes Bishop Artemije’s Secretary, Father Simeon
BELGRADE, Serbia, Jan. 8, 2007 - Serbian National Council of Kosovo-Metohija province condemned in the strongest terms Monday’s brutality of the Albanian Muslim “Kosovo Police Service” (KPS) and harassment of Abbot Simeon of the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Banjaska on the Vucitrn-Kosovska Mitrovica road.
The statement said that “not only does the brutal behavior of the Muslim KPS against Father Simeon, the secretary of Bishop Artemije of Raska and Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija, exceed the competences of law enforcement, it is also a confirmation of the constant pressure of the Kosovo province’s “provisional institutions” on Serbian people.”
Serbian National Council stressed that these incidents keep reoccurring “with the obvious aim of intimidating and ensuring that Serbs move out of their historical territory, especially at the time when UN special envoy to Kosovo-Metohija Martti Ahtisaari should present his proposal on the resolution of our province’s future status.”
Ahtisaari (Adolfsen) Expected to Finally Condemn Albanian Muslim Terror
(Not that Anyone’s Holding Their Breath)
Serbian National Council warned the international and domestic public that continuous pressure, harassment and terror against Serbs by the Kosovo province’s “provisional institutions” (established and empowered by the UN administration) had become unbearable and invited Ahtisaari to realize the real situation in the southern Serbian province and finally condemn the actions of the Albanian Muslim “provisional institutions” against the innocent and helpless Serbian citizens.
Serbian National Council also said that several-day harassment of the Simic family in Babin Most and Monday's harassment of Father Simeon at Christmas time, which the Serbian Orthodox Church celebrates according to the Julian calendar, proved that Serbs could not survive in this part of their country if it was given any form of independence.
Due to all developments in the province, Serbian National Council called on the international community to observe the international laws and principles which constitute the very foundations of the United Nations during the adoption of a decision on the future status of Serbian Kosovo-Metohija province.
Serbian National Council called upon UN Secretary General’s special representative in southern Serbian province Joachim Ruecker to use his authority and end the terror against the innocent Serbs, which the “provisional institutions” in the province have been using openly and constantly these days, the statement said.
Father Simeon of Banjska Monastery was stopped by the Albanian Muslim “Kosovo Police Force” on the Vucitrn - Kosovska Mitrovica road under suspicion of “transporting weapons.” The Secretary of His Grace, Bishop of Rashka-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija Artemije, was body-searched, as was his car, and was handled roughly according to his own testimony.
Father Simeon probably has his quick thinking and a handy cellphone to thank for being left alive on a deserted road, since he contacted Serbian news agency Tanjug in the midst of harassment and kept the line open during the “search,” when Albanian Muslim thugs realized the entire nasty episode is being recorded.