Informazioni Servizio della Diocesi di Raska-Prizren
Kosovo e Metohija
DOPO LA LITURGIA ALBANESI INCENDIANO IL MONASTERO DI ZOCISTE
Velika Hoca, 21:50 il 14 luglio 2002.
Secondo le ultime informazioni spedite da Fr. Pietro Ulemek da
Orahovac, immediatamente dopo la liturgia, albanesi locali del
villaggio di Zociste hanno sparato e dato fuoco al Monastero
dei SS. Cosma e Damiano.
Il fuoco ha danneggiato ulteriormente questo santo sacrario già
attaccato in passato. Fr. Pietro era nell'ultimo gruppo di Serbi
che ha lasciato il convento sotto la scorta della KFOR. Mentre
stavano andando via, un gruppo di albanesi ha cominciato a
gettare pietre contro i serbi. Poco dopo il prete locale
Fr. Srdjan Milenkovic e' stato infomato che il convento stava
bruciando. I Serbi di Velika Hoca immediatamente hanno organizzato
una brigata di pompieri e cercato con l'UNMIK di circoscrivere
il fuoco.
Dopo il comportamento offensivo e violento degli albanesi, i loro
assalti e tumulti anche in presenza del Vescovo e durante il rito
religioso, questo ultimo attacco al Monastero di Zociste ha
ancora una volta confermato l'intenzione chiara degli estremisti
Albanesi di distruggere gli ultimi monumenti serbi in questa regione.
Il comportamento di oggi dimostra che il Ministro Rexhepi ed il Sig.
Thaci hanno intenzionalmente ingannato il mese scorso il vescovo
Artemije quando promisero, di fronte a Stati Uniti e diplomatici
tedeschi che avrebbero creato le condizioni per la ricostruzione
dei monasteri ed il ritorno della popolazione serba espulsa.
In effetti molti elementi provano che il PDK (Partito
Democratico di Kosovo, diretto dai Sig. Thaci e Rexhepi) è
coinvolto direttamente nella distruzione del convento così come
questo ultimo incidente ha dimostrato.
(Vi è una fotografia di un muro del Monastero con un graffito
inneggiante al PDK e a Thaci).
Informazioni Servizio della Diocesi Ortodossa di Raska e Prizren
Kosovo e Metohija
Traduzione a cura di Vigna E. - Associazione " SOS Yugoslavia " -
Torino, 29/07/02
===*===
ESUMATI I CORPI DI ALTRI DIECI "DESAPARECIDOS" SERBI
+++ ALBANISCHER TERROR: WEITERE OPFER EXHUMIERT
PRISTINA. Sterbliche Überreste von weiteren zehn Serben, Opfern
der albanischen Terroristen, wurden heute in der Ortschaft
Dragodan bei Pristina exhumiert, sagte heute der Pathologe Dr.
Slavisa Dobricanin, Leiter der Exhumationsabteilung des
Kosovo-Koordinierungszentrums. Es wurden an dieser Stelle bisher
insgesamt zwanzig Leichen exhumiert, von denen 15 erkannt wurden.
Diese Leichen sollen noch diese Woche an ihre Angehörigen
übergeben werden, die vor dem albanischen Terror ins
Zentralserbien geflüchtet sind. B92 +++
AMSELFELD.COM 17/7/2002
Ten bodies exhumed in Pristina identified as Serbs
ORAHOVAC, July 16 (Tanjug) - Exhumation and Identification
Department head Slavisa Dobricanin of the Coordinating Center
for Kosovo-Metohija confirmed for Tanjug on Tuesday that a joint
team of that body and UNMIK had processed 10 bodies exhumed
from Pristina's Dragodan Cemetary at the Orahovac Center for
Identification. The team established that the bodies
were of two women and eight men of Serb nationality.
"The identification was performed on July 11 and 12, and
it was established that all the bodies, except for one woman
who died of natural causes at a Pristina hospital, were first
kidnapped and then murdered in 1999, after the arrival of KFOR
in Kosovo," Dr. Dobricanin said.
===*===
IL VESCOVO ORTODOSSO DENUNCIA LA MANCANZA DI VOLONTA'
DELLA KFOR NELLA PROTEZIONE DEI MONUMENTI RELIGIOSI
No support for renewal of Orthodox temples in Kosovo, says bishop
BELGRADE, July 23 (Tanjug) - Bishop Artemije of Raska and Prizren
said in a letter to UNMIK chief Michael Steiner that the Kosovo-Metohija
peacekeeping force KFOR was either incapable or unwilling to secure the
reconstruction of at least one Christian Orthodox temple in Kosovo and
Metohija for the three years since the end of the war, while damaged
mosques have been repaired and new ones built in the meantime.
The immediate cause for the letter to the head of the UN mission in
Kosovo and Metohija were the incidents in Zociste Monastery near
Orahovac, where Bishop Artemije served liturgy with priests and
Christians on July 14.
Local ethnic Albanians kept interrupting the service and then
proceeded to burn to the ground all buildings in the monastery
compound. The monastery has no KFOR protection to this day, the
letter said. Reconstruction of monasteries is one of the key
steps in the process of the return of expelled Serbs to Kosovo
and Metohija, as Serbs always rallied around their temples.
"That is why we plan to demand the reconstruction of Zociste
Monastery and other destroyed monasteries and churches with all
our strength. We firmly believe that this is our inalienable right
guaranteed under all international charters on human rights as
well as United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244," Bishop
Artemije said in his letter to Steiner.
===*===
PROVOCAZIONE NEL CORSO DI CERIMONIA COMMEMORATIVA A PRIZREN
+++ Albanische Terroristen stören Klosterjubiläum +++
GRACANICA, 26.Juli 2002. Über Tausend Menschen
feierten heute das 650-jährige Jubiläum des
Klosters der Heiligen Erzengels in der Nähe von
Prizren in der serbischen Provinz Kosovo und
Metochien. Vor Beginn der Feier wurde auf die
benachbarte Ruine der mittelalterlichen serbischen
Festung Visegrad von albanischen Terroristen eine
Granate abgefeuert.
STIMME KOSOVOS
===*===
INCENDIATA LA ABITAZIONE DI UN SERBO RIENTRATO DUE
SETTIMANE FA
+++ Albaner zünden Haus eines Rückkehrers an +++
KOSOVO POLJE, 26.Juli 2002. Das Haus eines vor zwei
Wochen in die serbische Provinz Kosovo und
Metochien zurückgekehrten Serben wurde in der
vergangenen Nacht Opfer eines Brandanschlages durch
Albaner. Das Haus wurde völlig zerstört.
STIMME KOSOVOS
===*===
PERSINO DUE SOLDATI USA FERITI IN UNA SERIE DI ATTENTATI
TERRORISTICI CONTRO ABITAZIONI SERBE
Two U.S. Soldiers Injured in Kosovo Explosion
By Shaban Buza
July 31, 2002
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - Six explosions rocked
an ethnically-mixed village in Kosovo on Wednesday,
injuring two U.S. soldiers investigating the blasts,
the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force said.
The explosions in the southeastern village of Klokot
damaged five Serb houses, most of them unoccupied with
the exception of one where an elderly Serb man lived.
The man was not injured, a U.N. source told Reuters.
A spokesman for KFOR, which seeks to secure peace in
the southern Yugoslav province following the 1998-99
conflict, blamed "extremists" for the violence and
vowed the force would do its utmost to bring those
responsible to justice.
The two U.S. soldiers were part of a patrol which
entered Klokot around 2 a.m. (2400 GMT) after hearing
an explosion there, the first in a series of six,
another KFOR spokesman, Drew Anderson, said in a
statement.
"On hearing the first of the explosions in Klokot a
nearby KFOR patrol entered the village and two members
of the patrol were injured by the third of the six
explosions," he said.
The injured soldiers were taken to the main U.S. base
in Kosovo for treatment. They were in stable
condition.
"The cause of the explosions in Klokot are, at
present, unknown. However, several uninhabited houses
were damaged and one was destroyed," Anderson said.
Another explosion in a nearby village at about the
same time was caused by a fragmentation grenade, the
statement said. "No civilian casualties are reported
in either village," it said.
Kosovo was placed under U.N.-led administration in the
summer of 1999 after 11 weeks of NATO bombing drove
Serb forces out of the province, populated mainly by
ethnic Albanians.
The Serb minority was targeted in numerous revenge
attacks by ethnic Albanians angry at years of Serb
repression under ex-President Slobodan Milosevic, now
standing trial at the U.N. war crimes court.
But international officials in Kosovo say such
violence has decreased over the last year, hailing
this as a positive sign for the peace process and the
chances of ethnic reconciliation.
They hope some of the roughly 180,000 Serbs who fled
Kosovo will soon be able to return to their pre-war
homes.
"We feel that we have made significant progress in
that area," KFOR spokesman Gordon Cooper said about
the area where the explosions took place.
"These isolated acts, however, demonstrate that there
are extremists who do not share our vision of making
Kosovo a better place," he said in a statement.
Kosovo e Metohija
DOPO LA LITURGIA ALBANESI INCENDIANO IL MONASTERO DI ZOCISTE
Velika Hoca, 21:50 il 14 luglio 2002.
Secondo le ultime informazioni spedite da Fr. Pietro Ulemek da
Orahovac, immediatamente dopo la liturgia, albanesi locali del
villaggio di Zociste hanno sparato e dato fuoco al Monastero
dei SS. Cosma e Damiano.
Il fuoco ha danneggiato ulteriormente questo santo sacrario già
attaccato in passato. Fr. Pietro era nell'ultimo gruppo di Serbi
che ha lasciato il convento sotto la scorta della KFOR. Mentre
stavano andando via, un gruppo di albanesi ha cominciato a
gettare pietre contro i serbi. Poco dopo il prete locale
Fr. Srdjan Milenkovic e' stato infomato che il convento stava
bruciando. I Serbi di Velika Hoca immediatamente hanno organizzato
una brigata di pompieri e cercato con l'UNMIK di circoscrivere
il fuoco.
Dopo il comportamento offensivo e violento degli albanesi, i loro
assalti e tumulti anche in presenza del Vescovo e durante il rito
religioso, questo ultimo attacco al Monastero di Zociste ha
ancora una volta confermato l'intenzione chiara degli estremisti
Albanesi di distruggere gli ultimi monumenti serbi in questa regione.
Il comportamento di oggi dimostra che il Ministro Rexhepi ed il Sig.
Thaci hanno intenzionalmente ingannato il mese scorso il vescovo
Artemije quando promisero, di fronte a Stati Uniti e diplomatici
tedeschi che avrebbero creato le condizioni per la ricostruzione
dei monasteri ed il ritorno della popolazione serba espulsa.
In effetti molti elementi provano che il PDK (Partito
Democratico di Kosovo, diretto dai Sig. Thaci e Rexhepi) è
coinvolto direttamente nella distruzione del convento così come
questo ultimo incidente ha dimostrato.
(Vi è una fotografia di un muro del Monastero con un graffito
inneggiante al PDK e a Thaci).
Informazioni Servizio della Diocesi Ortodossa di Raska e Prizren
Kosovo e Metohija
Traduzione a cura di Vigna E. - Associazione " SOS Yugoslavia " -
Torino, 29/07/02
===*===
ESUMATI I CORPI DI ALTRI DIECI "DESAPARECIDOS" SERBI
+++ ALBANISCHER TERROR: WEITERE OPFER EXHUMIERT
PRISTINA. Sterbliche Überreste von weiteren zehn Serben, Opfern
der albanischen Terroristen, wurden heute in der Ortschaft
Dragodan bei Pristina exhumiert, sagte heute der Pathologe Dr.
Slavisa Dobricanin, Leiter der Exhumationsabteilung des
Kosovo-Koordinierungszentrums. Es wurden an dieser Stelle bisher
insgesamt zwanzig Leichen exhumiert, von denen 15 erkannt wurden.
Diese Leichen sollen noch diese Woche an ihre Angehörigen
übergeben werden, die vor dem albanischen Terror ins
Zentralserbien geflüchtet sind. B92 +++
AMSELFELD.COM 17/7/2002
Ten bodies exhumed in Pristina identified as Serbs
ORAHOVAC, July 16 (Tanjug) - Exhumation and Identification
Department head Slavisa Dobricanin of the Coordinating Center
for Kosovo-Metohija confirmed for Tanjug on Tuesday that a joint
team of that body and UNMIK had processed 10 bodies exhumed
from Pristina's Dragodan Cemetary at the Orahovac Center for
Identification. The team established that the bodies
were of two women and eight men of Serb nationality.
"The identification was performed on July 11 and 12, and
it was established that all the bodies, except for one woman
who died of natural causes at a Pristina hospital, were first
kidnapped and then murdered in 1999, after the arrival of KFOR
in Kosovo," Dr. Dobricanin said.
===*===
IL VESCOVO ORTODOSSO DENUNCIA LA MANCANZA DI VOLONTA'
DELLA KFOR NELLA PROTEZIONE DEI MONUMENTI RELIGIOSI
No support for renewal of Orthodox temples in Kosovo, says bishop
BELGRADE, July 23 (Tanjug) - Bishop Artemije of Raska and Prizren
said in a letter to UNMIK chief Michael Steiner that the Kosovo-Metohija
peacekeeping force KFOR was either incapable or unwilling to secure the
reconstruction of at least one Christian Orthodox temple in Kosovo and
Metohija for the three years since the end of the war, while damaged
mosques have been repaired and new ones built in the meantime.
The immediate cause for the letter to the head of the UN mission in
Kosovo and Metohija were the incidents in Zociste Monastery near
Orahovac, where Bishop Artemije served liturgy with priests and
Christians on July 14.
Local ethnic Albanians kept interrupting the service and then
proceeded to burn to the ground all buildings in the monastery
compound. The monastery has no KFOR protection to this day, the
letter said. Reconstruction of monasteries is one of the key
steps in the process of the return of expelled Serbs to Kosovo
and Metohija, as Serbs always rallied around their temples.
"That is why we plan to demand the reconstruction of Zociste
Monastery and other destroyed monasteries and churches with all
our strength. We firmly believe that this is our inalienable right
guaranteed under all international charters on human rights as
well as United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244," Bishop
Artemije said in his letter to Steiner.
===*===
PROVOCAZIONE NEL CORSO DI CERIMONIA COMMEMORATIVA A PRIZREN
+++ Albanische Terroristen stören Klosterjubiläum +++
GRACANICA, 26.Juli 2002. Über Tausend Menschen
feierten heute das 650-jährige Jubiläum des
Klosters der Heiligen Erzengels in der Nähe von
Prizren in der serbischen Provinz Kosovo und
Metochien. Vor Beginn der Feier wurde auf die
benachbarte Ruine der mittelalterlichen serbischen
Festung Visegrad von albanischen Terroristen eine
Granate abgefeuert.
STIMME KOSOVOS
===*===
INCENDIATA LA ABITAZIONE DI UN SERBO RIENTRATO DUE
SETTIMANE FA
+++ Albaner zünden Haus eines Rückkehrers an +++
KOSOVO POLJE, 26.Juli 2002. Das Haus eines vor zwei
Wochen in die serbische Provinz Kosovo und
Metochien zurückgekehrten Serben wurde in der
vergangenen Nacht Opfer eines Brandanschlages durch
Albaner. Das Haus wurde völlig zerstört.
STIMME KOSOVOS
===*===
PERSINO DUE SOLDATI USA FERITI IN UNA SERIE DI ATTENTATI
TERRORISTICI CONTRO ABITAZIONI SERBE
Two U.S. Soldiers Injured in Kosovo Explosion
By Shaban Buza
July 31, 2002
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - Six explosions rocked
an ethnically-mixed village in Kosovo on Wednesday,
injuring two U.S. soldiers investigating the blasts,
the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force said.
The explosions in the southeastern village of Klokot
damaged five Serb houses, most of them unoccupied with
the exception of one where an elderly Serb man lived.
The man was not injured, a U.N. source told Reuters.
A spokesman for KFOR, which seeks to secure peace in
the southern Yugoslav province following the 1998-99
conflict, blamed "extremists" for the violence and
vowed the force would do its utmost to bring those
responsible to justice.
The two U.S. soldiers were part of a patrol which
entered Klokot around 2 a.m. (2400 GMT) after hearing
an explosion there, the first in a series of six,
another KFOR spokesman, Drew Anderson, said in a
statement.
"On hearing the first of the explosions in Klokot a
nearby KFOR patrol entered the village and two members
of the patrol were injured by the third of the six
explosions," he said.
The injured soldiers were taken to the main U.S. base
in Kosovo for treatment. They were in stable
condition.
"The cause of the explosions in Klokot are, at
present, unknown. However, several uninhabited houses
were damaged and one was destroyed," Anderson said.
Another explosion in a nearby village at about the
same time was caused by a fragmentation grenade, the
statement said. "No civilian casualties are reported
in either village," it said.
Kosovo was placed under U.N.-led administration in the
summer of 1999 after 11 weeks of NATO bombing drove
Serb forces out of the province, populated mainly by
ethnic Albanians.
The Serb minority was targeted in numerous revenge
attacks by ethnic Albanians angry at years of Serb
repression under ex-President Slobodan Milosevic, now
standing trial at the U.N. war crimes court.
But international officials in Kosovo say such
violence has decreased over the last year, hailing
this as a positive sign for the peace process and the
chances of ethnic reconciliation.
They hope some of the roughly 180,000 Serbs who fled
Kosovo will soon be able to return to their pre-war
homes.
"We feel that we have made significant progress in
that area," KFOR spokesman Gordon Cooper said about
the area where the explosions took place.
"These isolated acts, however, demonstrate that there
are extremists who do not share our vision of making
Kosovo a better place," he said in a statement.