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# Orthodox Press: Kosovo and Metohija Chronicle, September 14

Service of the Serbian Orthodox Church
PRAVOSLAVLJE PRESS

Belgrade, September 14, 1999

Belgrade Events

The Holy Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Church is in session for the second day. The hierarchs who were not present at the opening have arrived now. It is not known for certain how long the Assembly session would last. Upon the ending of the Assembly session we will issue a public statement.

Kosovo&Metohia Events

Priest Nenad Naspalic and nun Katarina, head of the Holy Trinity Monastery near Musutiste, escorted by the peacekeeping forces of the International community, visited today the Sts. Cosmas and Damian Monastery in Zociste village near Orahovac, which the Albanian terrorists plundered and demolished in the first days of their rampaging. The visitors saw with their own eyes that the Albanians blew up with mines Sts. Cosmas and Damian church within the Monastery, leveling it with the ground in the afternoon of September 13. The church had been built in the 14th century and was very famous for its grandiose fresco painting, and especially for the presentation of the Old Testament prophets. The Serbs from the nearby village Velika Hoca confirmed that several explosions were heard around 17:00. The monks from the Monastery had to move out in June. KFOR did not protect the Church, although its representatives guaranteed to Rt. Rev. Artemije - the Bishop of Raska and Prizren that they would protect some more important monasteries and churches. Moreover, the soldiers from the Danish KFOR contingent in Zociste said that they, allegedly, did not know anything happened.

Church-National Board in Gnjilane informed Pravoslavlje Press through amateur radio operators, that Serbs in this area were again killed and their property anew seized.

Yesterday in the afternoon, Stojan Nikolic, a farmer from Grizima village, was killed near Kosovska Mitrovica. Stojan was killed while returning by tractor from the livestock market in Bujanovac. Dragan Antic and an old woman Milunka Maksimovic, both from Grizima village, were also wounded during this attack.

In the previous evening, at the beginning of the curfew, an unknown Albanian terrorist cast a hand grenade at Stanica Tutic's house in Gnjilane. The grenade exploded in the cellar of the house. The Albanians occupied Radivoje Mladenovic's house earlier, and set on fire the house of his son Vlastimir. Darinka Antonov's house was looted and set on fire. Ljubica Mitic's and Petko Arsic's houses were again thrown stones at.

Zvonimir Katanic's apartment was broken into six times up to now.

Cedomir Metodijevic, whose house is near the Orthodox graveyard in Gnjilane, saw that yesterday, in the afternoon, 5-6 Albanian boys destroyed about ten tombstones in this graveyard. When Cedomir shouted at them, the boys ran away towards their schoolyard in the vicinity. There are about 80 destroyed or overturned tombstones in this Serbian graveyard.

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