Human Rights Violations against Non-albanian Kosovars

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# Orthodox Press: Kosovo and Metohija Chronicle, August 23
# PLUNDERED, BURNED AND DESTROYED CHURCHES
   a list made according to the records of the Diocese of Raska and Prizren

Information Service of the Serbian Orthodox Church
PRAVOSLAVLJE PRESS

Belgrade, August 23, 1999
Kosovo&Metohia Events

Last night in Gnjilane, the Albanians again set on fire another three Serbian houses; they also broke into many Serbian homes and plundered them, moved into some of the apartments, and molested and maltreated some of the ex owners.

The last Serb - Vojislav Stojanovic has been forced today to move out of Ajvalija (the part of the town Pristina), since the Albanians set his house on flames. A Serbian woman - Svetlana Mikic was physically attacked in Pristina. Two unidentified bodies in the phase of decaying were found in the vicinity of Pristina. The remaining Serbs in this town live in difficult material situation, lacking many things. Many of them are hungry and ill.

The Albanians have wounded Novica Spasojevic today in Trepca mine, near Kosovska Mitrovica.

In front of Orahovac, where still live 2800 Serbs, the Albanians have prevented the prepartory troops of the Russian KFOR contingent from entering into this town, explaining this action by their fear from the Russians’ protection of the Serbs in this region.
 
Belgrade Events

Rt. Rev. Teofan, with the titles of the Bishop of the Rumanian Orthodox Church, the Auxilliary Bishop of the Rumanian Patriarch Teoktist, and the Secretary of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Rumanian Orthodox Church, has visted today His Holiness Pavle, the Serbian Patriarch. Bishop Teofan has conveyed to Serbian Patriarch Pavle the fraternal feelings of the Orthodox Rumanians, and their prayers for the Serbian people in this difficult period. He has also given a significant financial help to the Serbian Church.

Bishop of Hvosno
Atanasije

PLUNDERED, BURNED AND DESTROYED CHURCHES
a list made according to the records of the Diocese of Raska and Prizren
the situation as at the holy day of Transfiguration, August 19, 1999

Simultaneously with the persecution of the Serbian Orthodox people - executed through various kinds of violence and crimes (expelling from houses, plundering, raping, kidnapping, killing and massacring of the innocent people), the systematic extinguishing of the spiritual roots of the Serbian people was done and is still being done through demolishing, burning and destroying of the Orthodox churches and monasteries. Only checked pieces of information concerning this kind of destruction have been stated in the following list:

1.The Medieval Holy Trinity Monastery (the church was frescoed) near Musutiste  (Suva Reka), 14th century, plundered, set on fire and completely destroyed by explosive.

2.The Medieval church of Dormition of the Mother of God, (painted in frescoes), built in 1315, in Musutiste, burned and afterwards torn down.

3.The Medieval St. Mark's Monastery, near Korisa, Prizren, built in 1467, looted, set on flames and totally destroyed by explosive.

4.The Medieval Monastery of St. Archangel Gabriel (with frescoes) in Binac village, near Vitina, 14th century, looted and burned.

5.The Medieval Monastery of St. Joannicius of Devic (painted in frescoes), near Srbica, 15th century, demolished and robbed.

6.The Monastery of Dormition - St. Uros’ (14th century, reconstructed in 1996), Gornja Nerodimlja, blown up with a mine and torn down.

7.The Monastery of St. Archangel (14th century, frescoed, reconstructed in 17th century), Gornja Nerodimlja, set on fire and blown up with a mine, the graveyard has been destroyed, the pine dating from 14th century has been cut down and burned.

8.St. Nicola's church (old church, reconstructed in 1983), Donje Nerodimlje, demolished, set on fire, and blown up with a mine.

9.St. Stephen's church (14th century, reconstructed in 1996), Donje Nerodimlje, situated at the graveyard, demolished, set on flames and blown up with a mine.

10.The Presentation of the the Virgin church in Dolac, near Klina, built in 1620, (with frescoes), burned, the Holy Throne demolished, afterwards mined and torn down by explosive.

11.St. Nicola’s church in Slovinje village near Lipljan, founded in 16th century, reconstructed in 19th century, utterly destroyed by explosive.

12.St. Apostles Peter and Paul's church in Suva Reka, dating from 1938, demolished and afterwards razed by explosive.

13.The Holy Trinity church in Petric village, near Pec (from 1993), destroyed by explosive.

14.The Presentation of the Virgin church in Belo Polje (near Pec), from 16th century, reconstructed in 19th century, demolished and set on flames.

15.The Cathedral of St. Uros in Urosevac, built in 1933, demolished, its interior set on fire.

16.The church of St. Elijah the Prophet, in Vucitrn, built in 1834, plundered, demolished and partly burned.

17.The church of St. John the Baptist, Samodreza, near Vucitrn, old church - reconstructed in 1932, demolished, burned and torn down.

18.St Parasceva’s (St. Nicola’s) church in Drsnik near Pec (frescoed), dating from 16th century, ruined, its interior set on flames.

19.The church of the Most Holy Mother of God in Naklo village, near Pec, from 1985, destroyed and burned.

20.The Holy Trinity church in Velika Reka village, near Vucitrn, dating from 1997, demolished, set on fire and nearly destroyed.

21.The Holy Apostles’ church in Petrovce village, near Kosovska Kamenica, demolished and set on flames.

22.The church of the Most Holy Mother of God in Podgorce village, near Vitina, demolished and burned.

23.The church of St. John the Baptist, in Pecka Banja, near Pec, from 1996, demolished, its interior set on fire.

24.The church of the Most Holy Mother of God in Djurakovac, near Pec, built in 1997, demolished.

25.The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, in Djakovica, built in 1998, vandalized, its interior set on fire, a valuable mosaic over the entrance destroyed, completely razed by explosive (July 24-25, 1999).

26.St. Nicola’s church in Osojane village, near Pec, demolished.

27.The church of St. Elijah the Prophet in Bistrazin, between Prizren and Djakovica, reconstructed on the old foundations before 1941, during the World War II ruined by the Albanians, afterwards reconstructed for the second time in 1988, now completely demolished.

28.St. Demetrius church in Siga, near Pec, reconstructed in 1937 on the medieval foundations, completely razed.

29.St. Elijah’s church in Zegra village, near Gnjilane, from 1931, demolished and then completely burned down (the roof collapsed), also, two church buildings were set on flames, and crosses and tombs in the graveyard were destroyed.

30.The church of the Holy Unmercenaries (old, reconstructed in 1991), Novake - Prizren, demolished and set on fire, its mining was unsuccessful, the tombs around the church were ruined.

31.The parish church in Krusevo, near Pec (old, reconstructed), broken into and partially burned.

32.The Monastery of Sts. Cosma and Damian, the Unmercenary Healers, in Zociste  (with frescoes), from 14th century, looted and demolished, the greatest part of the residential building was burned.

33.The parish church of St. John, in Grmovo, near Vitina, first set on fire, then completely destroyed by explosive (July 25, 1999).

34.St. Nicola’s church in Kijevo, near Klina, built in 14th century (painted in frescoes), levelled to the ground, crosses and tombs in the graveyard ruined.

35.The church of St. Mark, the Evangelist, (on the foundations of the old church of Presentation of the Virgin) in Klina - Metohia, destroyed by explosive.

36.St. Nicola’s church in Ljubizda, near Prizren, from 16th century, plundered and demolished; the parish centre was set on flames.

37.In the same village, Ljubizda, the church of St. Elijah, the Prophet (16th - 17th century), situated at the graveyard, reconstructed on the old foundations, looted, demolished, its interior set on fire, mined, the graveyard around it destroyed.

38.St. Petka’s church, in Dobrcane village, between Gnjilane and Kamenica, burned, the roof collapsed.

39.The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Pristina (a new one), first it had been tried to set it on fire, and later, on August 1, 1999, at 01:00, the explosive was placed at four sites: two mines exploded, and the other two did not.

40.St. Elijah’s church (new, 1994), - Smac village, near Prizren, set on flames, demolished, its interior mined, but not all explosive packages exploded.

41.The church of St. Basil the Great (19th century), - Gornja Srbica, near Prizren, burned and torn down.

42.St. Petka’s church (recently built), Zaskok village, near Urosevac, blown up with a mine, torn down.

43.St. Nicola’s church (old, reconstructed in 1985), Gatnje village, near Urosevac, demolished and blown up by explosive.

44.The church of the Most Holy Mother of God (old, reconstructed), Gornje Nerodimlje, demolished and torn down.

45.St. Elijah’s church (the old, broadened in the reconstruction), in Nekodim village, near Urosevac, demolished and set on flames.

46.The church of the St. Apostles Peter and Paul, in Talinovac, near Urosevac (recently built), vandalized, its interior set on fire, the graveyard around it destroyed.

47.The Holy Trinity church, in Babljak village, near Urosevac, demolished, its interior set on fire.

48.The church of the Nativity of the Mother of God, Softovic village, near Urosevac, demolished and burned.

49.The parish church in Novi Kacanik - destiny unknown.

50.The church of the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God (old, reconstructed), in Korisa village, near Prizren, razed to the ground, as well as the old site of the church, the graveyard destroyed.

The list has not been completed.

It should be added that church, monastery and parish buildings of these churches and monasteries were also pludered and set on flames.

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