Snow hides desecrated Serb graves

Serbs who today visited the graves of their loved ones in Priština found the roads leading to the cemetery covered in deep snow.

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Saturday, 21.02.2009.

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Serbs who today visited the graves of their loved ones in Pristina found the roads leading to the cemetery covered in deep snow. The communal service workers in Pristina did not clear the access roads or the paths in the cemetery on today's Orthodox Christian holiday of Zadusnice. Snow hides desecrated Serb graves Serbs mark four such days each year, dedicated to the souls of the deceased loved ones. Some 40, mostly elderly Serbs who still live in Pristina, could not go to the cemetery at all. Those who came are the internally displaced Serbs now living in other parts of Kosovo and in northern Kosovska Mitrovica, who today made their way through the deep snow in the hope of finding the graves of their family members and friends. Beta news agency reports that they found "stray dog tracks instead of cleared paths", and that some had trouble locating the graves they wished to visit. Heavy snowfall also covered the tombstones, so it remained unclear how many were broken this year. The Serbs also tread carefully, the agency said, for fear of falling into one of the holes in the ground left when their compatriots decided to exhume their dead and bury them elsewhere. Some are making the decision to relocate the graves because of the continuous desecration of the Serb burial places in the province, and because the living relatives face security concerns and difficulties when they decide to visit the graveyards outside the Serb enclaves in Kosovo. What those visiting the cemetery in Pristina today did notice despite the cover of snow is that vandals had stolen most of the metal decorations from the graves, including the inscriptions on the tombstones.

Snow hides desecrated Serb graves

Serbs mark four such days each year, dedicated to the souls of the deceased loved ones.

Some 40, mostly elderly Serbs who still live in Priština, could not go to the cemetery at all.

Those who came are the internally displaced Serbs now living in other parts of Kosovo and in northern Kosovska Mitrovica, who today made their way through the deep snow in the hope of finding the graves of their family members and friends.

Beta news agency reports that they found "stray dog tracks instead of cleared paths", and that some had trouble locating the graves they wished to visit.

Heavy snowfall also covered the tombstones, so it remained unclear how many were broken this year. The Serbs also tread carefully, the agency said, for fear of falling into one of the holes in the ground left when their compatriots decided to exhume their dead and bury them elsewhere.

Some are making the decision to relocate the graves because of the continuous desecration of the Serb burial places in the province, and because the living relatives face security concerns and difficulties when they decide to visit the graveyards outside the Serb enclaves in Kosovo.

What those visiting the cemetery in Priština today did notice despite the cover of snow is that vandals had stolen most of the metal decorations from the graves, including the inscriptions on the tombstones.

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