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Of Kosovo Serbs and
Minority Groups in
Post-war Kosovo
Truth in facts...
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ERPKIM
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PHOTO
GALLERIES - POGROM (17-20 March 2004)
Shocking
video recording of the destruction of St. Andrew's church in Podujevo
additional links (video in Quick time, Windows media)
http://www.spc.rs/Multimedija/Podujevo/podujevo-e.html
http://www.kc.gov.yu/video_kosovo/podujevo-en.html
KOSOVO
BURNING IN ETHNIC VIOLENCE
ETHNIC CLEANSING OF REMAINING SERBS CONTINUE
Kosovo Kristallnacht 17-18
March - tensions continue - 35 Orthodox churches destroyed - dozens
of killed - hundereds of wounded in the outburst of Kosovo Albanian
violence which is directed against Orrhodox Serbs and its Holy Sites
as well as the NATO troops and UNMIK policemen who were defending
them from ethnic cleansing
Cathedral
church of St. George in Prizren after it
was burned by Albanian mob
Full
reconstruction of the Kosovo pogrom, 15 – 20 March 2004
ERP KIM Info Service has received from well informed international
sources in Kosovo a timeline of the incidents and events in
Kosovo Province in the period between 15-20 March. At the moment
the Diocese is actively collecting all available information
on these events in which more than 4.000 Serbs have been left
homeless, at least 8 Serbs died and around 30 churches have
been either completely destroyed or seriously damaged by Kosovo
Albanian mob. All available information and our contacts with
different intelligence sources prove that the operation (called
by some as Operation Matchstick) was carefully planned beforehand
and that behind it are some of the Kosovo Albanian leaders. |
Suffering
of Kosovo Serbs and their Church in Kosovo c o n t i n u i n g...
At the beginning of the New Millennium Kosovo Serbs are the
only people in Europe killed because of their language, religion
and ethnicity, completely deprived of freedom of life, movement
and work. Crimes against Serb civillians and their culture are being
committed by Albanian extremists not in the time of war but in the
presence of 40.000 NATO troops and the UN mission.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALLOWING NEW
REPRESSION REPLACE THE PREVIOUS ONE?
FOUR
YEARS OF THE PEACE MISSION IN
KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
How Long Will the Perpetrators
of These Crimes Enjoy Immunity (collection of photos showing some
Kosovo Serb victims who were killed or suffered by ethnic Albanian
extremists after the beginning of the UN/KFOR peacekeeping mission
in Kosovo. Neither of these cases have been fully investigated and
resolved by the UN police (Please be advised that the following
photo in larger format contains disturbing details that may not
be suitable for some of our recipients. Click and enlarge the photo
at your own discretion.) (legend: destroyed Nis Express bus
- 11 victims, unidentified Serb woman beaten in Kosovo Polje by
ethnic Albanians, body of Slavoljub Radunovic killed in Pec in 2000,
ruins of the Holy Trinity church near Pec, Bogdan Bukumiric one
of victims of the Gorazdevac river massacre Aug 2003, Bishop Amfilohije
reads requiem service to three Serbs slaughtered in Belo Polje near
Pec, Borka Basic 81 killed with her son prof. Basic in Pristina
by ethinc Albanians, bodies of 17 Serb farmers killed in Staro Gracko
July 99, Fr. Nenad Nespalic reads prayer over found bodies of abducted
and killed Serbs near Pec)
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1,201
PERSONS KILLED SINCE DEPLOYMENT OF KFOR IN KOSOVO - SERBS
AND MONTENEGRINS SUFFER HIGHEST CASUALTIES
Since
the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK in Kosovo and Metohija on
June 10, 1999 to August 9 of this year, Albanian terrorists
have carried out 6,535 attacks, resulting in the deaths of
1,201 persons, the wounding of 1,328 persons and the abduction
of 1,146 persons, reports the Serbian ministry of internal
affairs.
Tanjug
News Agency, Belgrade
August 20, 2003
 Since
the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK in Kosovo and Metohija on
June 10, 1999 to August 9 of this year, Albanian terrorists
have carried out 6,535 attacks, resulting in the deaths of
1,201 persons, the wounding of 1,328 persons and the abduction
of 1,146 persons, reports the Serbian ministry of internal
affairs.
Of the total number
of attacks, 6,468 were directed against civilians (5,932 against
Serbs and Montenegrins, 201 against Albanians and 335 against
members of other ethnicities), 57 against Serbian police (members
of the ministry of internal affairs) and 10 against members
of the Serbia-Montenegro (formerly Yugoslav) Army.
In these attacks
1,173 civilians, 24 Serbian policemen and four members of
the Army were killed, while 15 policemen were wounded. Of
the total number of abducted persons, 1,107 are civilians,
29 are members of the Serbian police and 10 are members of
the Army.
 Among
the 1,173 civilians killed by Albanian terrorists, the great
majority (991) are Serbs and Montenegrins. The number of Albanians
killed is 109 and the number of members of other ethnicities
killed is 73.
Out of the total
of 1,108 abducted civilians, 960 are Serbs and Montenegrins,
73 are Albanians and 74 are members of other ethnicities.
The fate of 846 persons remains unknown; 160 have been killed;
12 managed to escape (nine Serbs and three persons of other
ethnicities), and 89 civilians have been released, according
to information of the Serbian police (MUP).
The fate of 15
abducted policemen and nine members of the Army also remains
unknown. Six of the abducted policemen have been killed, six
have been released, and two managed to escape from their abductors,
Albanian terrorists.
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KOSOVO
AS IT REALLY IS......
ETHNIC
TERROR CONTINUES IN KOSOVO, May 11, 2003
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Kosovo and Metohija there are still two realities, which have
little in common. On the one hand, there are official statements
by some international representatives and Kosovo Albanian leaders
describing the continuous improvement of the situation and the
need to transfer UNMIK competencies to the local population as
quickly as possible. On the other hand, for the Kosovo-Metohija
Serbs and largely for other at-risk minority communities continuing
to live under a state of siege, the situation is not improving
but life is actually becoming increasingly difficult and the future
more and more uncertain. |
KOSOVO
SERBS PROPORTIONALLY AFFECTED MORE DURING THE INTERNATIONALLY
GRANTED PEACE THAN KOSOVO ALBANIANS DURING THE WAR
One of burrial
sites at Dragodan (near Pristina) with bodies of Serbs killed
by UCK after the end of the war. Hundreds of Serb bodies were
temporarily burried by local authoritiesin several locations
around Kosovo during the second half of 1999. to be exhumed
and identified later. Serb human rights organizations have evidence
for at least 847 killed and 1154 missing Serbs since June 12,
1999 and the deployment of KFOR/UNMIK. More than one third of
pre-war Serb population (240.000) fleed Kosovo in front of KLA
terror which was more or less tolerated by peacekeepers. Almost
ten times smaller than the Albanian community Kosovo Serbs were
proportionally affected more after the war, in the KFOR/UNMIK
presence, than Kosovo Albanians during the war period under
the MIlosevic regime.
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ETHNIC CLEANSING IN FRONT OF UN/KFOR EYES
These
two images, obtained from Norweigan KFOR, capture ethnic situation
in Kosovo Polje town between April 2000 and September 2000.
Blue squares symbolise Serbian owned homes and red squares Kosovo
Albanian owned homes. Only in the period of 5 monhts one can
notice that many Serbian homes in the town were simply occupied
by Kosovo Albanians. The Serb owners were forced to leave their
homes under various kinds of pressure. Almost all green squares,
the homes which were empty in April 2000, became red by September
2000. Until April 2000 the most of Kosovo Polje Serb still held
in their homes but the lack of security and unreadiness of the
international peacekeepers to prevent ethnic repression discouraged
many of them who left their homes in search of more secure surrounding.
Kosovo Albanians who occupied thousands of Serb homes in Kosovo
and Metohijaduring the last four post-war years quite expectably
resist Serb returns hoping that they can legalize their occupied
property. For many Serbs who fled ethnic violence in the UN/KFOR
presence there is not much choice and most of them are under
pressure to sell their property.
These two
maps clearly and graphically demonstrate the process of silent
ethnic cleansing which is happening in the very presence of
the international UN mission and NATO led peacekeepers (click
on each image for a larger size picture). |
Kosovo
Polje town, April 2000
Kosovo
Polje town, September 2000
MITROVICA
- A DIVIDED CITY.... BUT NOT QUITE
A French
legionnaire on the bridge over the Ibar river,
dividing North and South Mitrovica, summer 2003
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many who pretend to know something about the Kosovo post-war situation
Mitrovica is an ethnically divided city, a symbol of ethnic division
in the Province. But the reality is quite different. In the northern,
so called, "Serbian quarter" still live 4.000 non-Serbs,
primarily Albanians, Slav Moslems and Roma, while in the southern,
Albanian part, of the city almost primarily Kosovo Albanians live.
All Serbs in this part of the city, a dozen of them, are concentrated
in a little ghetto around the Serbian Orthodox church, heavily
guarded by KFOR. Roma community was almost completely exterminated,
their quarter was thoroughly ignited after the war and the Albanian
municipal administration plans to erect a recreation center on
the location on which they lived. In fact, while the North has
remained more or less as multiethnic as it was before the war
in 1999, the South looks nothing different than Pristina, Urosevac,
Pec, Djakovica and other major Kosovo cities in which freedom
still exists for only one ethnic group - Kosovo Albanians. |
NEWS
FROM KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
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