Zadusnice in Kosovo-Metohia
Kosovo Serb family cries over the grave of their son and brother, with a freshly demolished gravestone. All Souls' Day, March 1, Kosovo and Metohia, Serbia
Mourning the Loved Ones and Their Desecrated Graves
On Saturday, March 1, the Church marks the winter Zadusnice, Eastern Orthodox equivalent of All Souls' Day, commemorating the loved ones who have passed. RTS reports that Kosovo Serbs have yet again been forced to visit the graves of their family members and friends under the police guard.
The Orthodox Christian faithful from Kosovska Mitrovica have on Saturday morning found their graveyard in the southern, Albanian-dominated part of the town, in a horrific condition, desecrated and vandalized, with broken and destroyed memorial stones.
Broken parts of the demolished gravestones have been thrown away and scattered throughout, so some of the faithful who came to light candles and commemorate their family members couldn't find their final resting places for hours. At the time of commemoration, the graveyard in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica was guarded by the UNMIK police.
Some twenty Serbs have visited the Orthodox Christian graveyard in Pristina. A small group of people, mainly from Pristina and the surrounding Serbian villages, were hurriedly lighting candles and cleaning the weed-covered graves.
There too they have found the freshly vandalized gravestones, so more and more families are deciding to move the remains of their loved ones because, due to the poor security, they can't visit their graves regularly.
“Visit the Graveyards in their Midst to Learn Who they Are”
Miroslava Dimic, originally from Pristina, came from the town of Obrenovac in central Serbia where she lives since 1999 pogrom of Serbs and non-Albanians in the Kosovo-Metohia, and she could barely find the grave of her son.
Serbian Orthodox priest holds a memorial service over a desecrated grave. All Souls' Day, March 1, Kosovo-Metohia, Serbia
“Last time I was here, I got lost and I couldn't find the grave of my son Zarko. Today, I came to Gracanica on my own and from there a cab driver took me to the graveyard and helped me to find my son's grave. Because I can't keep visiting his grave regularly, I would like to move his remains to Obrenovac, but I really don't know how to do that,” Miroslava said.
Another Pristina refugee, Ilija Trajkovic, who lives in temporary housing in Gracanica since the March 2004 pogrom, visits the graves of his loved ones on each All Souls Day, twice a year.
“Everything here looks appalling. We keep seeing new demolished gravestones every time we come. If you want to determine the level of development of a society, go to the graveyards in their midst and you'll learn everything there,” said Trakovic.
Kosovo-Metohia refugees living in central Serbia today couldn't visit the graves of their family members in the province because there was no organized transportation, just like the previous years.
Serbian graveyard in Pristina was guarded by the KFOR troops during today memorial services.
Around 30,000 Serbian refugees from Kosovo province who found the temporary residence in the town of Kraljevo, were not allowed to visit the graves of their loved ones on All Souls Day. The memorial service was served in Kraljevo, another central Serbian town.
Albanians Vandalize Serbian Church on All Souls Day
RTS also reported another act of vandalism and sheer malice by the Albanian hooligans in southern Serbian province on the same memorial day. A group of thugs took the bell off the church in the tiny returnee village Novake in Metohia, and threw it into the stream, where the residents and the KFOR soldiers found it.
As one of the villagers, Branko Gligorijevic confirmed, some 30 Serbian returnee families have on All Souls' Day went to the local graveyard, around two kilometers away from the village.
“As soon as we came back after the service, around 2 p.m., we heard something heavy being dropped, so we went back right away, only to find that the church bell was gone,” Gligorijevic said. The villagers called KFOR and they organized a search.
“Some time after 5 p.m. we found the bell thrown into the stream and, with the KFOR's help, we brought it back to the village. Shame on Albanians for treating us this way on the All Souls Day, but the Serbian bell will ring again in the Novake village,” said Gligorijevic.
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I wouldn´t say "hooligans", filth or scum of some kind of Orcísh nature is more appropriate. Fact is im having a hard time to see these people as humans at all, i mean isn´t anything sacred to them? Not even dead people?
But im pretty confident we will get Kosovo back sooner rather than later, if nessecary by force when the empire and the apartheid jews only state are buisy with their war against islam in Lebanon Syra and Iran. Just let them have their "Armageddon" there....
Posted by: nikola | March 2, 2008 08:28 AM
Azerbaijan Muslims have been filmed and photographed while in the process of destroying Armenian grave sites. They destroyed about 5,000 Armenian historical monuments in Azerbaijan. This is what Muslims do, as sanctioned by the Koran: cultural genocide. It can be so complete that a people forget where they came from. Pakistan is an example, all originally Hindi people. In very few areas the tide is turning: the Berbers of North Africa are making a comeback, some turning away from Islam.
The Muslim desecration of Serbian grave sites in Kosovo under the watchful eyes of NATO is a clear message that the EU and US will try to rub out any people that say No to the planned post-Christian multicultural secular humanist pro-Muslim anti-culture.
The question still remains: wither Serbia? If it is digested into the EU then it will slowly dissipate as a distinct people.
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March 2, 2008 02:12 PM
It breaks my heart to see this happening.I know how much time and money my family has given to take care of and keep up our family grave site.But the people that we go there to remember and talk to are not in the earth but in our hearts and around our families.They live on through our children.
All of Kosovo is one large Serbian grave and the Albanians know this it has now become a large trash dump.Our holy land is for the time a Muslim/NATO landfill.Our army will not act since we have a western puppet president keeping them back.Germany/US/NATO/EU is finishing what was started in 1941 with amazing success and Russia fully supports us as long as they don't have to do anything.I wonder is God even listening to our prayers?
Posted by: Jovan Z | March 2, 2008 04:04 PM
These scum sucking muslim sadists and their scumsucking enablers in the EU and the US are exploiting the inherant human decency of the Serb people to inflict as much pain and suffering as they possibly can. As an American, I puke at the mere mention of Bush or the US State Dept. Sadists can desecrate a Christian grave, but, they cannot steal a Christians salvation. They have been doing this for a long time. A possible strategy for bringing this ghoulish muslim practice to a halt might be to haul pig shit by the truck load into muslim graveyards in Serbia proper, spread it over individual grave sites, cultivate it in and water heavily so that "ripened" pig feces soak down to the cadaver. A variation on this might be to unearth the cadaver and re cover with a mixture of pig shit and earth. I would also promise the albanian illegals in Kosovo that when we (the Serbs) return, we will do the same to all muslim burial sites in Kosovo. The muslims have definite vulnerabilities...you have to be willing to exploit them
Sometimes, in dealing with scum sucking swine, you must set aside your "human decency" and play what is called in the US, "Hard Ball".
Posted by: joesixpack31 | March 3, 2008 02:05 PM