EU helps to restore monuments of culture

If the EU truly wants to "help bring reconciliation, cultural diversity and inter-cultural dialogue", then it must immediately work to return the hundreds of thousands of Serbian refugees back to Croatia and our Southern province.

No, Richard Z, they should pay for their terror-bombing and destruction of Serbia´s infrastructure BEFORE building any tributes to their local clients.

"One of the most well-known buildings in [sic] the Hagia Sophia Church"

Hagia Sophia is in Constantinople, not the Western Balkans, unless they're talking about another Hagia Sophia (but one is in Thessaloniki and the other in Trebizond).

And if it is the Great Church in Constantinople, what is planned on being restored? The church has been under "restoration" for 15 years now.

How about a full restoration of the Church of Bogorodica Ljeviska in Prizren? It's a 13th century church horribly damaged during the 2004 anti-Serb pogroms.

Sorry Mark but I have no idea what you are talking about. You are right about Kosovo having many historical sites that need to be preserved but how can you tell the Albanians to stop burning and destroying them? They have no respect for them.

When they mentioned "The European Commission stated that it will finance one restoration project for each Balkan country.", I'm sure the restoration financed for Serbia will go to the province of Kosovo as there is nothing else that has been destroyed in the rest of Serba.

Hi Mike. Probably they mean St. Sophia in Sofia, Bulgaria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Sophia,_Sofia
I quite agree with you that Bogorodica Ljevica needs the help, maybe more than any of the other sites...
Peace, C

I guess some people will comment that they don't want the money because we would acknowledge Kosovo's independence if we do.

ZK UK: If Serbia is interested in Balkan stability (which it has shown itself not to be committed), then it must immediately call back the hundreds of thousands of Serbian colonists from Croatia and Kosova.

The EU's plans for cultural invigoration are a good thing: Albania and Kosova have many archeological sites and centers of heritage that should be preserved and restored, so this is a helpful step in the right direction.

Thanks, Europe!

hey mike. you seem like an intelligent guy. have you, by any chance, ever heard of the Ferhadija mosque in banja luka, that your brother serbs destroyed (dynamited) at the beginning of the bosnian war, along with some 100 other mosques in what was once a thriving, multi-cultural cosmopolitan center? and then turned the great ferhadija into a... parking lot?

and late, after the war, proceeded to organize stonings against returning muslims and others who were attempting to start a rebuilding plan, even allowing schoolchildren the day off just to make sure this "demonstration" was a success.

how many years has slobo been gone, and how have the serb nationalist atoned for even a fraction of their crimes, not to mention the widespread destruction of "opposing" religious institutions of many denominations.

maybe you should look to cleaning out your own house, before pushing the usual hate campaign against my albanian friends.

roberto from frisco

Dear Mike,

There was an error in the text which has now been corrected.

We apologize to you and all our other readers, and thank you for drawing our attention to this.

Regards,

B92

The Ferhadija mosque was Turkish built on top of a destroyed Orthodox Church. Turks did this or used stones from Serbian churches there long before to build mosques.

In today's B92 there's report on a Serbian Orthodox church in Tuzla which has been vandalized 50 times in the last 7 years.

Since you are an admitted Jew, why aren't you protesting the almost daily killing of Palestinians by the Israeli army? Or what about the destroyed mosques in Iraq which only started after the U.S. occupied Iraq.

The U.S. promotes destruction and hate in targeted countries it gets involved in.

ZK UK: If Serbia is interested in Balkan stability (which it has shown itself not to be committed), then it must immediately call back the hundreds of thousands of Serbian colonists from Croatia and Kosova.

The EU's plans for cultural invigoration are a good thing: Albania and Kosova have many archeological sites and centers of heritage that should be preserved and restored, so this is a helpful step in the right direction.

Thanks, Europe!

I guess some people will comment that they don't want the money because we would acknowledge Kosovo's independence if we do.

The Ferhadija mosque was Turkish built on top of a destroyed Orthodox Church. Turks did this or used stones from Serbian churches there long before to build mosques.

In today's B92 there's report on a Serbian Orthodox church in Tuzla which has been vandalized 50 times in the last 7 years.

Since you are an admitted Jew, why aren't you protesting the almost daily killing of Palestinians by the Israeli army? Or what about the destroyed mosques in Iraq which only started after the U.S. occupied Iraq.

The U.S. promotes destruction and hate in targeted countries it gets involved in.

If the EU truly wants to "help bring reconciliation, cultural diversity and inter-cultural dialogue", then it must immediately work to return the hundreds of thousands of Serbian refugees back to Croatia and our Southern province.

No, Richard Z, they should pay for their terror-bombing and destruction of Serbia´s infrastructure BEFORE building any tributes to their local clients.

Sorry Mark but I have no idea what you are talking about. You are right about Kosovo having many historical sites that need to be preserved but how can you tell the Albanians to stop burning and destroying them? They have no respect for them.

When they mentioned "The European Commission stated that it will finance one restoration project for each Balkan country.", I'm sure the restoration financed for Serbia will go to the province of Kosovo as there is nothing else that has been destroyed in the rest of Serba.

"One of the most well-known buildings in [sic] the Hagia Sophia Church"

Hagia Sophia is in Constantinople, not the Western Balkans, unless they're talking about another Hagia Sophia (but one is in Thessaloniki and the other in Trebizond).

And if it is the Great Church in Constantinople, what is planned on being restored? The church has been under "restoration" for 15 years now.

How about a full restoration of the Church of Bogorodica Ljeviska in Prizren? It's a 13th century church horribly damaged during the 2004 anti-Serb pogroms.

Hi Mike. Probably they mean St. Sophia in Sofia, Bulgaria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Sophia,_Sofia
I quite agree with you that Bogorodica Ljevica needs the help, maybe more than any of the other sites...
Peace, C

Dear Mike,

There was an error in the text which has now been corrected.

We apologize to you and all our other readers, and thank you for drawing our attention to this.

Regards,

B92

hey mike. you seem like an intelligent guy. have you, by any chance, ever heard of the Ferhadija mosque in banja luka, that your brother serbs destroyed (dynamited) at the beginning of the bosnian war, along with some 100 other mosques in what was once a thriving, multi-cultural cosmopolitan center? and then turned the great ferhadija into a... parking lot?

and late, after the war, proceeded to organize stonings against returning muslims and others who were attempting to start a rebuilding plan, even allowing schoolchildren the day off just to make sure this "demonstration" was a success.

how many years has slobo been gone, and how have the serb nationalist atoned for even a fraction of their crimes, not to mention the widespread destruction of "opposing" religious institutions of many denominations.

maybe you should look to cleaning out your own house, before pushing the usual hate campaign against my albanian friends.

roberto from frisco