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# Critical refugee situation in Serbia
# Orthodox Press: Kosovo and Metohija Chronicle, July 20
# Orthodox Press: Kosovo and Metohija Chronicle, July 19

Tuesday, July 20th, 1999

Critical refugee situation in Serbia

The United Nations refugee agency warned on Tuesday of a critical situation in several central Serbian towns carrying the main burden of a flood of displaced people from Kosovo. "Their accommodation is completely unsuitable, they are put up mostly in schools without adequate plumbing or any other facilities," said Vesna Petkovic of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' Belgrade office. She said Serbia had around 150,000 people from Kosovo. "Out of a total 169,824 refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) from Kosovo in Yugoslavia, some 22,000 are in Montenegro and the rest are in Serbia," she said. "The most critical situation is in the towns of Kraljevo, Kragujevac and several others in the area which have accommodated the largest number of refugees," Petkovic said. The agency estimated there were 18,525 displaced people in Kraljevo, equal to almost a third of the town's population, and 13,246 in Kragujevac, around a tenth, who had arrived from Kosovo since the NATO troops entered Kosovo in June. UN Secretary general Kofi Annan said in a recent report that Serbs left the Kosovo province initially due to fears over their security and then because of a growing number of actual incidents committed by Kosovo Albanians against Kosovo Serbs.

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Information Service of the Serbian Orthodox Church
              PRAVOSLAVLJE PRESS

KOSOVO AND METOHIA CHRONICLE

Belgrade, July 20, 1999
Rt. Rev. Artemije, the Bishop of Raska and Prizren has visited Gnjilane and Kosovska Mitrovica today, where he has personally been convinced of all the afflictions happening to the Serbs.
     On the road Pristina - Pec, Rt. Rev. Atanasije, the Bishop of Hvosno, and the priests Miljko Koricanin and Mija Arsovic, found in a burned truck having Leskovac registration number bone remains of father and son - Zivko and Tomislav Stajic from Leskovac, who the Albanians had killed and burned on that place, on June 20. The remains were taken to the Patriarchate of Pec monastery, where the service for the repose of the dead was served. Father Miljko Koricanin will transport the remains of the late Stajics to Kraljevo, where the relatives should take them over.
     Milivoje and Julijana Ristic were slaughtered in their house in Maticane village.
     The news stating that Drago Djuric from Istok was killed, was issued by mistake. He is safe and sound. So, instead of him, another killed Serb - whose name is not known to us, was the victim of the informed crime.

Rt. Rev. Bishop Atanasije Rakita
The Bishop of Hvosno

Information Service of the Serbian Orthodox Church
              PRAVOSLAVLJE PRESS

KOSOVO AND METOHIA CHRONICLE

Belgrade, July 19, 1999
Rt. Rev. Atanasije, the Bishop of Zahumlje and Herzegovina, has visited today a greater part of Kosovo and Metohia. He has been encountering destroyed and burned Serbian houses, violated shrines and empty Serbian villages everywhere. The Bishop has visited Musutiste village, where the church dedicated to the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God and dating from 14th century, previously already destroyed, was afterwards blown up with a mine, so that now it is nothing but a pile of rocks. He has also visited the violated Holy Trinity monastery, near Musutiste, which was also blown up with a mine, and nothing left of it.
     Bishop Atanasije has also spent some time in the vicinity of Djakovica, namely in Bistrazin village, where he found the church of St. Elijah completely demolished. The new church in Djakovica has also been destroyed, the Albanians demolished it, lighted a fire in the very church and wrote insulting words on its walls.
     The Albanians demolished the church in Belo Polje. In Petrici village, near Pec, the church was blown up with a mine. That church was brother Karic's memorial.
     The threats to the Serbs have continued in Pristina. The Albanians have attacked many Serbs, beaten them and forcefully made them leave their homes, giving them only few hours to move out. Marko and Ljubica Cvetkovic have been beaten in the town.
     Rt. Rev. Artemije, the Bishop of Raska and Prizren, has been in Gracanica monastery today.

Rt. Rev. Bishop Atanasije Rakita
The Bishop of Hvosno

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