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# Orthodox Press: Kosovo and Metohija Chronicle, September 26_______________________________________________________________________
Information Service of the Serbian Orthodox Church
PRAVOSLAVLJE PRESSBelgrade, September 26, 1999
Kosovo&Metohia Events
On Saturday, September 25, His Holiness Pavle, the Serbian Patriarch, served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Patriarchate of Pec Monastery. Having served the Liturgy, the Patriarch talked with the sisterhood and other dwellers of the Monastery. At 16:30, His Holiness received in the Monastery General Ghil, from Italian KFOR contingent, with whom he spoke about the present situation in Kosovo and Metohia, and especially about the afflictions of the Serbian people in the district of Pec. Italian General expressed sorrow for the killed and arrested Serbs, but he could not say anything concrete about the finding of the arrested Serbs. His Holiness Pavle expressed gratitude to the Italian officers and soldiers for rendering help to the Monastery of the Patriarchate of Pec. Italian General answered that, in spite of the fact that a great number of Italian soldiers protected the Monastery, in these difficult circumstances, due to the Albanian terrorists' grenade launching the Patriarchate was not completely safe. After this conversation, Patriarch saw the General out, wished him pleasant journey, with an earnest desire to meet in better circumstances next time.
Around 19:00, Bernard Couchnaire suddenly arrived into the Patriarchate of Pec Monastery; he had been visiting the Decani Monastery prior to this arrival. During the conversation the Patriarch asked this high UN official to pay special attention to the finding of the missing Serbs. Couchnaire insisted that a lot of blood was spilt in Kosovo, that the wounds could not easily be healed, and that there were many criminals. The Patriarch answered that the criminals should be punished: "If I were a war criminal, and if I committed some evil deed, although I am the Serbian Patriarch, I should pay for the evil I had done, but not my people."
Today, His Holiness Pavle, the Serbian Patriarch, will serve the Liturgy in Gorazdevac village, and afterwards he will return to the Patriarchate of Pec Monastery.
The Church-National Board of Gnjilane informed Pravoslavlje Press through amateur radio operators that Zoran Zivic (aged 32), an Orthodox Serb from Boljevce village near Kosovska Kamenica, was killed in the evening of September 24. When returning by tractor from a timber market, Zoran and his friends sitting in the tractor were attacked by unknown attackers who started shooting from automatic firearms, somewhere near Ajnovce village. Apart from the killed Zoran, four persons were seriously wounded: tractor driver Bojan Trajkovic, Dusan Trajkovic, Miroska Ilic (all of them from Boljevce village), and Dobrinjka from Gradjenik village.
In the evening of September 24, the Albanians cast a hand grenade at the apartment of Vitko Andjelkovic in Kosovska Kamenica. At that moment, Vitko and his wife were in the other room, and thus they avoided being hurt, but an enormous material damage was caused to them.
The house of a renowned lawyer Prvoslav Pavic was moved into by force. The houses of Stevic brothers - Milivoje and Milorad - were plundered, as well as the house of Branislav Zubic.
Since September 21-23, the Albanians killed four persons in Prizren, out of which one person is a Romany, and another one is a six-month-old Serbian baby. The baby was first taken away from the mother, and then burned alive, only because her mother Dragana Mladenovic did not want to leave Prizren. This crime was committed on September 21. Dragan and Stevan Smiljanic were beaten at the market in Prizren, since they were identified as the Serbs for speaking their mother tongue.
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