Orthodox church desecrated near Preševo

Any individual on this planet who desecrates the final resting place of anybody should not be classified as a member of the human race.Do humanity a favor and go live with the animals in the jungle.DISGUSTING

Albanian tolerance right on the spot. And few days ago some Albanian posters were saying how tolerant they are when it comes to another religion,hm,hm?????

Just sad. You have to wonder what kind of sick hatred people have in their hearts to do this kind of thing - particularly at this time of year.

Completely sick.

This just makes me sick.

Hermon,

Why is there Serb Church in place where there are only Albanians? More apropriate question is ''Why are there mainly Albanian villages in Serbia?

Are you telling us that anything Serb is a provocation for barbaric acts of vandalism?

Serb Orthodox Church was built there, as it can be built ANYWHERE in Serbia, probably where there has at some point a significant Serb population.
Now, I wonder how it came to be mainly Albanian...

And we expected anything different. Just sick!!!

Herman, it doesnt take a rocket scientist to understand that the reason there are no Serbs and only the Serbian church is because ALBANIANS CLEANSED OUT THE SERBS!!!! What is so difficult to understand?? albanians dont deserve and independent Kosovo,that is why it wont happen!! CCCC

Absolutely sick.

Hermon "My question though is why is there a serbian church in a village where there are only Albanians? Not that I am against it but it sounds a bit strange to me."

Well the answer to your question is perhaps in the article -

"The SPC also said that "after 1996 and the expulsion of Serbs from Oraovica, Albanian extremists desecrated a Serb cemetery in the village." "

And also it shouldn't be surprising that there is a Serbian Church in Serbia.

"My question though is why is there a serbian church in a village where there are only Albanians?"

Because Serbs were living there when it was built and until 1996 when the Albanians ethnically cleansed them.

The Serbian churches are testiment to Serbian population in the area because they were built when Serbs lived there.

Hermon,

Firstly, the b92 source could not confirm whether the incident is reported to the police or not. Probably it is but the source just have no that information. Secondly, if you red the article then you could obtain conclusion easily about church being placed in Albanian village. Well, in that particular village Serbs used to live as well but they were expeled by the Albanians. Now, since there are no Serbs living overthere any longer it is time to destroy everything that reminds of Serbs once living there in order to deny and hide every proof of the once Serbian existance.

The same was done and still going on in Kosovo. Guess it will be easy for Albanians to claim everything as theirs pointing the finger and saying "Look there are no Serbs, they never lived here while we have been here for centuries and Illyrians are our ancestors".

Where are Serbs safe to practice their religion? They can not do it in their province of Kosovo, they can not even do it in Serbia proper.

to hermon:

"Please dont jump into conclusions. The event was not raported to the authorities, just to media. Does this say anything to you???? "
"My question though is why is there a serbian church in a village where there are only Albanians?"

Oh nooo hermon we won't jump to conlusions and accuse the albanians right? Because probolby it must have been thugs from chile or brazil, right? I don't think there was once a time on this site that an albanian has admitted and said, "yes that was us, we admit it."

And to answer your second question - Why are those albanians living in Serbia? Since they hate Serbs so much.

The only saving grace here is that those who foolishly choose to deny or make excuses for such repulsive behavior write so poorly that their message is not clearly understood.

The church, dedicated to St. George

this is a pure lie, and look at serb camp here flying in the air. this is cheap serb propaganda.
this church has the name of our hero,

Hermon,

It is utterly disgusting the way in which "you" analyze this particular issue. In addition, you clearly need a lesson in Deductive reasoning because you simply contradict yourself in your own statement, " Please don't jump into conclusion... why is there a Serbian Church in an Albanian village." I don't know but to me this sounds like A) you basically incriminate Albanians,since i mean they are the only ones living in the village, who else would do it? and B)A statement of Religious intolerance by your part. Evidence that Serbs once had living in the area of the Church, but for some "peculiar" reason don't anymore. You sure seem to find certain, logical, events as odd.

Use your evidence to arrive to a conclusion in regards to why Kosmet shouldn't gain independence

I just wanted to inform to you that this action is not true at all. I hope that B92 looks more into this and removes this untrue story and also gives a statement to the readers here that this news is not confirmed and that it never happened.

Wow look at the serbs feeling and saying that this is SICK.
How about the catholic churches that were destroyed by serbs? how about the muslim mosques destroyed by serbs? Are those actions sick actions also? Or only when one serb church is destroyed then that is classified as sick action.

How about the orthodox priests blessing serb paramilitaries before they would go and kill innocent people?

Ok, there you go with Serbian propoganda again.
Bmrussila, Albanians are more tolerant than Serbs as far as religion goes.
Why there are no destruction of churches and mosques in Albania. The only places were you see these things are Ex-Yugo, and Greece.
As far as history goes, I admit it there were much more Serbs in Kosovo during early Medieval times, but I have not seen a scholar that denies the presence of Albanians in Kosovo. So, you can not say the Albanians have no right to govern Kosovo.
Illyrian or no Illyrian, Albanian is an old Balkan-origined language, and everybody knows were the Slavic people origin is.
Let's do a contest:

to the albanians on this site. is that youte excuse for the crimes ? 1999 blah blah blah! enough allready

Please dont jump into conclusions. The event was not raported to the authorities, just to media. Does this say anything to you????
My question though is why is there a serbian church in a village where there are only Albanians? Not that I am against it but it sounds a bit strange to me.

You learn something new here everyday. Today it is that St. George was in fact an Albanian, despite being the patron saint of many countries including Serbia.

"Albanians are more tolerant than Serbs as far as religion goes.
Why there are no destruction of churches and mosques in Albania."

Just one problem here - those Albanians in Kosovo rather spoil this proud boast don't they Geni??

Also Albania was previously the first and only officially atheist state in history. Places of worship were turned into other uses.

Why is this a surprise?
There has been on going systematic terror and destruction of Serbian cultural and holy sites for the few hundred years.They did this same thing and in the same manner in Kosovo-Metohija and everyone is still amazed.When Tadic tells them we will not defend our people and property this gives them the green light.There are a few army bases around the border zone why not do some police work.

Has nothing to do with Albanian hatred. I know who are the guilty. It's a suspicious gang of three criminals:

- David Silberstein
- Jovan Petrovic
- Vartan Avakian

Automatically guilty until proven innocent. Am I right?

I don't know who did it actually, and nobody should jump to conclusions.
But, I have pretty good idea why there was a church in Albanian village.
It name is Oraovica. In Serbian it means "Walnut place". What does it mean in Albanian? Nothing.
Story must be the same as in Kosovo.

The notion that Albanians were in a position to "cleanse" Serbs from Presevo in 1996 is completely false.

Southern Serbia and Kosovo at that time was under the control of the Serbian MUP, which had various different highly militarised units under the command of persons later indicted for war crimes in Kosovo. The idea that Serbs could have be cleansed with no reaction by Milosevic and his stooges in the secret police and the MUP is completely ridiculous. More rubbish from the orthodox church, an institution that has systematically condoned real genocide during the war in Bosnia.

"Albanians are more tolerant than Serbs as far as religion goes."
Yeah?? Well I'm afraid the evidence suggests otherwise.
Even In Ireland at the height of the troubles, with all the bitterness, neither the Catholics nor the Protestants went around burning and desecrating each others churches.
There is something very, very worrying about people who cannot respect even the spiritual beliefs of their adversaries. I would say that the continuing destruction of Orthodox churches in Kosovo is a crime against humanity.

The Serbian churches are testiment to Serbian population in the area because they were built when Serbs lived there.
(ida, 10 January 2008 20:32)

I know you've got a church or two in London ..so why don't you come and claim London as your own???
people know that Serbs during their histori which they developed in close relationship with their church, build many churches all over the place despite being a very small minority!!! But later on, claim that land as their own. How many Albanian symbols have you demolished? I just read that there still 2000 Albanians missing from 1999 war. So, you weight the harm ...

The church, dedicated to St. George

this is a pure lie, and look at serb camp here flying in the air. this is cheap serb propaganda.
this church has the name of our hero,

Please dont jump into conclusions. The event was not raported to the authorities, just to media. Does this say anything to you????
My question though is why is there a serbian church in a village where there are only Albanians? Not that I am against it but it sounds a bit strange to me.

I just wanted to inform to you that this action is not true at all. I hope that B92 looks more into this and removes this untrue story and also gives a statement to the readers here that this news is not confirmed and that it never happened.

Wow look at the serbs feeling and saying that this is SICK.
How about the catholic churches that were destroyed by serbs? how about the muslim mosques destroyed by serbs? Are those actions sick actions also? Or only when one serb church is destroyed then that is classified as sick action.

How about the orthodox priests blessing serb paramilitaries before they would go and kill innocent people?

Ok, there you go with Serbian propoganda again.
Bmrussila, Albanians are more tolerant than Serbs as far as religion goes.
Why there are no destruction of churches and mosques in Albania. The only places were you see these things are Ex-Yugo, and Greece.
As far as history goes, I admit it there were much more Serbs in Kosovo during early Medieval times, but I have not seen a scholar that denies the presence of Albanians in Kosovo. So, you can not say the Albanians have no right to govern Kosovo.
Illyrian or no Illyrian, Albanian is an old Balkan-origined language, and everybody knows were the Slavic people origin is.
Let's do a contest:

Any individual on this planet who desecrates the final resting place of anybody should not be classified as a member of the human race.Do humanity a favor and go live with the animals in the jungle.DISGUSTING

Hermon,

Firstly, the b92 source could not confirm whether the incident is reported to the police or not. Probably it is but the source just have no that information. Secondly, if you red the article then you could obtain conclusion easily about church being placed in Albanian village. Well, in that particular village Serbs used to live as well but they were expeled by the Albanians. Now, since there are no Serbs living overthere any longer it is time to destroy everything that reminds of Serbs once living there in order to deny and hide every proof of the once Serbian existance.

The same was done and still going on in Kosovo. Guess it will be easy for Albanians to claim everything as theirs pointing the finger and saying "Look there are no Serbs, they never lived here while we have been here for centuries and Illyrians are our ancestors".

Hermon,

Why is there Serb Church in place where there are only Albanians? More apropriate question is ''Why are there mainly Albanian villages in Serbia?

Are you telling us that anything Serb is a provocation for barbaric acts of vandalism?

Serb Orthodox Church was built there, as it can be built ANYWHERE in Serbia, probably where there has at some point a significant Serb population.
Now, I wonder how it came to be mainly Albanian...

Just sad. You have to wonder what kind of sick hatred people have in their hearts to do this kind of thing - particularly at this time of year.

Completely sick.

This just makes me sick.

Albanian tolerance right on the spot. And few days ago some Albanian posters were saying how tolerant they are when it comes to another religion,hm,hm?????

Herman, it doesnt take a rocket scientist to understand that the reason there are no Serbs and only the Serbian church is because ALBANIANS CLEANSED OUT THE SERBS!!!! What is so difficult to understand?? albanians dont deserve and independent Kosovo,that is why it wont happen!! CCCC

Where are Serbs safe to practice their religion? They can not do it in their province of Kosovo, they can not even do it in Serbia proper.

Has nothing to do with Albanian hatred. I know who are the guilty. It's a suspicious gang of three criminals:

- David Silberstein
- Jovan Petrovic
- Vartan Avakian

Automatically guilty until proven innocent. Am I right?

I don't know who did it actually, and nobody should jump to conclusions.
But, I have pretty good idea why there was a church in Albanian village.
It name is Oraovica. In Serbian it means "Walnut place". What does it mean in Albanian? Nothing.
Story must be the same as in Kosovo.

And we expected anything different. Just sick!!!

Hermon "My question though is why is there a serbian church in a village where there are only Albanians? Not that I am against it but it sounds a bit strange to me."

Well the answer to your question is perhaps in the article -

"The SPC also said that "after 1996 and the expulsion of Serbs from Oraovica, Albanian extremists desecrated a Serb cemetery in the village." "

And also it shouldn't be surprising that there is a Serbian Church in Serbia.

Absolutely sick.

"My question though is why is there a serbian church in a village where there are only Albanians?"

Because Serbs were living there when it was built and until 1996 when the Albanians ethnically cleansed them.

The Serbian churches are testiment to Serbian population in the area because they were built when Serbs lived there.

to hermon:

"Please dont jump into conclusions. The event was not raported to the authorities, just to media. Does this say anything to you???? "
"My question though is why is there a serbian church in a village where there are only Albanians?"

Oh nooo hermon we won't jump to conlusions and accuse the albanians right? Because probolby it must have been thugs from chile or brazil, right? I don't think there was once a time on this site that an albanian has admitted and said, "yes that was us, we admit it."

And to answer your second question - Why are those albanians living in Serbia? Since they hate Serbs so much.

The only saving grace here is that those who foolishly choose to deny or make excuses for such repulsive behavior write so poorly that their message is not clearly understood.

You learn something new here everyday. Today it is that St. George was in fact an Albanian, despite being the patron saint of many countries including Serbia.

"Albanians are more tolerant than Serbs as far as religion goes.
Why there are no destruction of churches and mosques in Albania."

Just one problem here - those Albanians in Kosovo rather spoil this proud boast don't they Geni??

Also Albania was previously the first and only officially atheist state in history. Places of worship were turned into other uses.

Why is this a surprise?
There has been on going systematic terror and destruction of Serbian cultural and holy sites for the few hundred years.They did this same thing and in the same manner in Kosovo-Metohija and everyone is still amazed.When Tadic tells them we will not defend our people and property this gives them the green light.There are a few army bases around the border zone why not do some police work.

Hermon,

It is utterly disgusting the way in which "you" analyze this particular issue. In addition, you clearly need a lesson in Deductive reasoning because you simply contradict yourself in your own statement, " Please don't jump into conclusion... why is there a Serbian Church in an Albanian village." I don't know but to me this sounds like A) you basically incriminate Albanians,since i mean they are the only ones living in the village, who else would do it? and B)A statement of Religious intolerance by your part. Evidence that Serbs once had living in the area of the Church, but for some "peculiar" reason don't anymore. You sure seem to find certain, logical, events as odd.

Use your evidence to arrive to a conclusion in regards to why Kosmet shouldn't gain independence

to the albanians on this site. is that youte excuse for the crimes ? 1999 blah blah blah! enough allready

The notion that Albanians were in a position to "cleanse" Serbs from Presevo in 1996 is completely false.

Southern Serbia and Kosovo at that time was under the control of the Serbian MUP, which had various different highly militarised units under the command of persons later indicted for war crimes in Kosovo. The idea that Serbs could have be cleansed with no reaction by Milosevic and his stooges in the secret police and the MUP is completely ridiculous. More rubbish from the orthodox church, an institution that has systematically condoned real genocide during the war in Bosnia.

"Albanians are more tolerant than Serbs as far as religion goes."
Yeah?? Well I'm afraid the evidence suggests otherwise.
Even In Ireland at the height of the troubles, with all the bitterness, neither the Catholics nor the Protestants went around burning and desecrating each others churches.
There is something very, very worrying about people who cannot respect even the spiritual beliefs of their adversaries. I would say that the continuing destruction of Orthodox churches in Kosovo is a crime against humanity.

The Serbian churches are testiment to Serbian population in the area because they were built when Serbs lived there.
(ida, 10 January 2008 20:32)

I know you've got a church or two in London ..so why don't you come and claim London as your own???
people know that Serbs during their histori which they developed in close relationship with their church, build many churches all over the place despite being a very small minority!!! But later on, claim that land as their own. How many Albanian symbols have you demolished? I just read that there still 2000 Albanians missing from 1999 war. So, you weight the harm ...