crimes in kosovo / a prayer request
vladimir markovic
July 10, 1999
Pristina, 9th July 1999 (Fonet) - Serbian Orthodox Church issued a
report including a list of
killed, disappeared and abducted,
mainly Serbs from Kosovo and
Metohija, prepared for the period
June 15 - July 9, 1999.
Fourteen persons have been killed in Pristina since 15th July: Dojcin
Kapetanovic, Ilija Sukic, Vladimir Stanisavljevic, Persa Stanisavljevic,
Dragan Brankovic, Milenko Lekovic, Miodrag Mladenovic, Jovica
Stamenkovic, Miodrag Zivic, Milutin Pavlovic, Dragan Rajicevic, Milena
Stojanovic and Bozo Jovanovic.
In the same period, in the capital of the Province 22 persons have
been abducted. They are Branko Marulovic,
Misko Misulovic, Beocanin (name is
unknown), Petrija Piljevic, Zoran Djosic,
Dr. Andrija Tomanovic, Nenad Stamenkovic,
Radmila Petrusic, Luka Petrusic, Slobodan Vujacic, Sasa Todorovski,
Nenad Brusac, Mile Buljevic, Milos Radic, Srdic (name unknown), Stanko
Saranovic, Milos Mikic, Leposava Mikic, Tomo Tasev, Djordje Kuzmanovic,
Milorad Jovanovic and Ivan Djelic.
According to the OESC report the following Serbs have disappeared from
Pristina: Miodrag Masulovic, Branko Markovic, Milutin Dimitrijevic,
Dragan Dimitrijevic, Ivan Djelic, Slavisa Izderic (from Novi Pazar).
Seven persons have been killed in Obilic. They are: Slobodan Pavlovic,
Nenad Pavlovic, Dimitrije Marinkovic, Aleksandar Marinkovic, Momcilo
Dimic, Dejan Prokic and Predrag Todorovic.
Murdered in Urosevac are: Nenad Vujinovic and his son Srdjan Vujinovic,
Bogdan Djokic and Dimko Parlic. In the same period Slavko Dzungulovic,
Slobodan Stolic and Jovo Grkovic have been abducted.
On 21st June in Slivovo village Zivojin, Dimitrije, Trajan and Zivko
Simic were massacred.
In Orahovac, Panta Grkovic and Mihajlo
Velimirovic were killed and Svetislav
Grkovic, Gradimir Majmarevic, Cile Vitosevic, Nikola Bregovic, Budimir
Bulic, Boban Dedic, Marko Vitosevic, Peka Pelevic, Ibrahim Mulovda and
Peka Simic, who is liberated, were abducted.
In Podujevo Slobodan Mirovic and Sreten Zivkovic were killed.
It is said in the report that in Pec Radoslava Cirkovic and another
woman with the same family name and unknown name were raped and
murdered. In the house of Kojic family 10 persons were killed.
Davor Ristic was abducted in Kosovo Polje.
According to the report, in Prizren in KFOR prison are Ljubisa
Manitasevic and Nenad Manitasevic as well as two unidentified killed
persons.
Vlastimir Stevanovic from Dojnice village disappeared on 12th June in
Skrobiste village, near Prizren.
The list of murdered persons from various other places in Kosovo and
Metohija includes: Milenko Lekovic, Nebojsa Jankovic (with remark that
he was massacred), Milivoje Vukovic, Sreten Zivkovic, Milos Ralevic,
Branko Vukovic (remark-burned), Tomislav Ristic, Marko Tosic and Hamza
Rosic. Zoran Stanisic, whose residence was not given in the report, was
abducted.
Most difficult in Gnjilane
July 10, 1999
Pristina, 8th July 1999 (Glas Javnosti) - Centre for Peace and Tolerance
in Pristina was reported in the night between Thursday and Friday the
murder of Velimir Ivic from Pristina settlement Aktas. He was killed in
his house in Dubrovacka street no 19. In Proleterska street, also in
Pristina, the house of Ljubica Lazic was burned and Sibinka Petrovic was
beaten.
During the previous night and day ethnic-Albanians broke into nine
flats of both Serbs and ethnic-Albanians.
In Gnjilane municipality the situation is still very difficult. The
Centre for Peace and Tolerance confirmed that members of the so-called
KLA made an armed attack on Gornji Livac village on Thursday afternoon.
KFOR troops did not undertake anything for preventing the attack.
Somewhat after 5:00 p.m. in Gnjilane settlement Kavnik, in front of the
medical centre, director of the centre Dr. David Stojanovic was
abducted. Pharmacist Cedomir Savic was injured in Gnjilane on Friday
morning while standing at the window of his house, learns Beta by
radio-amateurs. Savic was injured with several hits fired on his breast.
Having in mind that after director Stojanovic's abduction Serbian
medical workers left finally the Gnjilane hospital, according to Savic's
family, nobody wanted to render medical assistance to Savic and he had
to be transported to Vranje.
On Thursday at around 9:00 p.m. terrorists shell bomb on the house of
Slavko Stojanovic also in Gnjilane. In that attack two women were
heavily wounded, while among slightly wounded is a two-year old child.
We have learnt from local authorities in Kosovo Polje that Goran
Lakusic and Vesko Petrovic have been temporary arrested in Lipljan
prison for three days now. They were seized by KFOR trooops upon the
conflict with looting gang of ethic-Albanians who robbed 17 Serbian
houses in Brace Jankovica street in Kosovo Polje.
That the situation in Kosovo and Metohija has not been stable yet it
was confirmed on yesterday's briefing in KFOR press centre in Pristina.
KFOR spokesman Jan Joosten said that on Friday morning in Batuse
village, near Kosovo Polje, two heavily wounded Serbs had arrived to the
peace-keeping force point. KFOR transported them immediately to Pristina
hospital, but they had not survived. Spokesman Joosten has not told
their names. However, he said that the investigation showed that the
Serbs had entered into an ethnic-Albanian ambush.
According to the records of the Centre for Peace and Tolerance, so far
128 disappeared Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija were reported after the
arrival of peace-keeping forces.
KOSOVO CHRONICLE 9-10 JULY 1999
1. Serbian Orthodox priest from Pristina, Fr. Radivoje Panic, was
attacked today in the courtyard of his family home in the center of
Pristina by a group of unindentified Albanians armed with pistols, bombs
and knives. They wanted to kidnap the priest but thanks to the
intervention of the neighboring priest Fr. Milorad and other neighbors
he evaded kidnapping and the attackers only took away his private car.
In the afternoon Fr. Radivoje managed to attend the funeral of Nebojska
Jovanovic (32) a Serb from his parish in Batuse village near Pristina
who was killed the previous night in front of his home by armed
Albanians.
2. Yesterday unindentified group of armed Albanians kidnapped the
director of the hospital in Gnjilane dr. Ostojic. He was heavily beaten
and later that day set free. Another Serb Cedomir Savic from Gnjilane
was wounded by armed Albanians in front of his house the same day.
3. The Serbs in Strpce (c. 10.000 Serbs) made a public rally in front of
the local KFOR mission yesterday. The reason of this rally was opening
of Albanian offices within the town hall alsthough this town is
inhabited solely by Serbs. They say that their safety is endangered.
4. Yesterday the monks from Decani Monastery managed to save the
valuable altar screen (ikonostas) of the church of St. John the Baptist
in Pecka Banja. The church which was erected two years ago by Milorad
Rajevic was burned by local Albanians three days ago. The attackers had
previously looted the church and stolen many valuables, including the
gilded Greek chandelers. Several ikons on the altar screen were already
destroyed or burned. The priest's home was also looted and smashed.
5. The Serbian Orthodox Church in Petric near Pec built 4 years ago was
mined by local Albanians and all valuables from the church were
destroyed.
6. On July 8 in Staro Ruice village near Lipljan a father and a son were
kidnapped by armed Albanians (Voja 70 and Dragan 40 Zivic). They also
threw a bomb on the house of JOvan Zaklanovic in Lipljan yesterday but
no one was injured.
8. Today two Serbs were burried in Pec. Their identity is not known yet.
They were found in Savine Vode. One of the victims was beheaded.
9. Today a bus with 50 Serbs left the city from the Patriarchate
Monastery towards Montenegro. The sisters in the monastery will evacuate
all their monastery cattle to Montenegro because they do not have means
to feed them. The security situation in Pec remains the worse in all
Kosovo. In the city there are almost no Serbs. The Serb homes are looted
and burned.
10. Three elderly Serb civilians in Decani were kidnapped in their homes
in the course of the last week. There are no information about them so
far. All Serb houses were looted and are now occupied by Albanians.
Gypsy houses have all been burned and their owners were expelled from
Kosovo. The monastery in Decani offered last refuge to a group of 40
Gypsies. They are leaving all to Montenegro tomorrow.
11. Bishop Artemije and Momcilo Trajkovic refused any official
cooperation with KFOR and UN authorities in Kosovo if the violence and
crimes against Serbs are stopped by more decisive and effective
meassures of KFOR troops.
Information Service of the Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren
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PLEASE, LET ANYONE WHO CAN (ESPECIALY PARISH CHURCH COMMUNITIES AND
MONASTERIES) READS THE PRAYER CANON TO THE MOST HOLY THEOTOKOS FOR THE CEASE
OF THE SUFFERING OF PEOPLE IN KOSOVO.
Peter Terry
vladimir markovic wrote in message <7mcs46$nh6$1...@SOLAIR2.EUnet.yu>...
>Endless crimes
>July 10, 1999
>
> Pristina, 9th July 1999 (Fonet) - Serbian Orthodox Church issued a
>report including a list of
>killed, disappeared and abducted,
>mainly Serbs from Kosovo and
>Metohija, prepared for the period
>June 15 - July 9, 1999.
>
Well Vladimir, now that this conflict is winding down, do
you have any regrets as to your position during the war??
A sad list I must say, it would take you a week to type the
names of Albanians killed in this conflict- not that you would
care anyway. Are you still convinced that reports of massacres
of Albanians by Serbians, were unfounded?????
PeterT
vladimir markovic
Peter Terry wrote in message <93185186...@subsonic.fan.net.au>...
>
>Well Vladimir, now that this conflict is winding down, do
>you have any regrets as to your position during the war??
>A sad list I must say, it would take you a week to type the
>names of Albanians killed in this conflict- not that you would
>care anyway. Are you still convinced that reports of massacres
>of Albanians by Serbians, were unfounded?????
>
>PeterT
>
Well, Peter,
As to my position during the war, I do regret. I found out the truth about
masacres of Albanian civilians from a man from Kosovo, a Serb who told me
everything about the horror that in his village Franky's unit did to
Albanians (Franky's are the most cruel paramilitary formation consisted of
desperate men who lost entire families in Bosnia; they are given their daily
supplies of food, the drug they use, and infra-red glasses; they operated
nightly, destroying anything that moves). I couldnt believe neither NATO
controled media, nor Milosevic's TV. However, finally the truth proved to be
faraway from the either side's wartime claims.
I followed your posts a while, and I wondered: are you an Orthodox
Christian? Do you believe in God at all? Did you pray at least once in your
lifetime?
Even if my country is only a bunch of cannibals, as you seem to believe, an
Orthodox Christian should pray for these cannibals that they would reach the
repentance and the mercy of God.
If I posted the list of murdered people, that I got from the list of Fr Sava
Janjic, to the Orthodox Christian newsgroup, I didnt post it out of the
political or propagandist reasons, but to make everyone who reads these
names at least then says a prayer for their souls. (This is unfortunately
faraway from being the complete list).
Type as long as you can lists of Albanian victims, and send it directly to
me, and I will pray for the each one, as well as I pray for them all the
time collectively, not knowing their names. These Serbs that committed
crimes over Albanian people will face God and will pay their share for what
they have done. As well as Albanians who committed crimes over Serbs. An
Orthodox Christian should not rejoice over the extermination of anyone, as
you rejoice to the extermination of Kosovo Serbs believing that "the justice
is being served" - instead, he should
P R A Y.
Not for a single moment trying to decrease or justify crimes committed by
Serbs, I must warn you that your government recently issued a statement that
finally revealed the real number of murdered Albanians, and it is about 10
thousand people. It is a lot of people still, and a big crime which is
certainly a shame for me personally and for my people and Church, but it is
faraway from those sounding propagandist exaggerations your ears obviously
still resound with (I first heard NATO media spoke of 230 thousand, then
they decreased it to 100 thousand of killed Albanians, and finally it
defrosted to the 10 times less, now when they dont need the exaggeration as
a justification for bombing anymore). If you dont believe me, check out the
USA Today website, news from the beginning of July.
Should I say, right after the cease of the NATO bombings, the official
information was given that about 10 thousand Serb civilians died in NATO and
KLA attacks during the 77 days of war; I have every reason to believe that
Milosevic's government hides the real number of victims, which is certainly
bigger . The additional horror began after the coming of NATO "protection"
forces to Kosovo, when Serbs are left at the mercy of the KLA. E.g. the
city of Pristina before the war had the population of 80 thousand Serbs, out
of which only some 20 thousand remained in their homes when NATO and KLA
came. Serbian priests claim that now, one month later, there is no more than
2 thousand Serbs in Pristina, most of which are elderly people who literally
did not dare to move out of their houses for more than 20 days, and that are
being systematically exterminated night by night by KLA thugs. But whom do I
speak to - you certainly believe that they are getting what they
disserved...
Whatsoever, remember that there is God above us, and He sees all. Who is
your God, anyway?
Vladimir Markovic
Belgrade, Serbia
Peter Terry
vladimir markovic wrote in message <7mggmb$m5t$1...@SOLAIR2.EUnet.yu>...
>masacres of Albanian civilians from a man from Kosovo,
Vladimir Markovic
>Belgrade, Serbia
>
>sniped for space
Thank you for your response Vladimir, my query was an
extension to a number of conversations we had during
this sad war.. I respect what you have to say and no doubt
time has given you the insight to formulate your own conclusions,
which have changed slightly since we last spoke....and no, Serbs do
not deserve any retribution against them from Albanians. It just
goes to show that violence and anger is universal, whether your
Serb, Albanian or American..
On your specific question of my God, I do not follow the God
of Roman Christianity, but rather the father of Our Lord..
Take special care and is not prayer in itself wasted space,
unless it is followed by active example, as was shown by Serbs
who protected Albanians from marauding Serbian paramilitary and Albanians
who are this day protecting Serbs from angry returning Albanians.
PeterT