Church dignitary blesses Red Berets website

A web site maintained by members of the former JSO was blessed by Bishop Irinej, Novi Sad media report.

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Thursday, 31.05.2007.

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Church dignitary blesses Red Berets website

All of this took place several weeks before the delivering of the verdict in the Đinđić assassination trial.

The Special Operations Unit (JSO), also known as the Red Berets or simply the Unit, was Serbia’s State Security (DB) formation operating in the former Yugoslavia wars during the 1990’s.

The JSO was disbanded on March 22, 2003, ten days after the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić, with its former commander Milorad Ulemek a.k.a. Legija and deputy commander Zvezdan Jovanović charged with planning and executing the murder.

Belgrade’s Organized Crime Court found Ulemek and Jovanović guilty last week, sentencing them to maximum 40-year prison terms.

According to sociologist Mirko Đorđević, this is not the first time that the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) image has suffered setbacks, and reminds of the case of Father Gavrilo of Prvina, caught on camera giving blessings to the paramilitaries from the Scorpions unit, in a video that was aired globally.

“We are riding a wave of forced clericalization and the church is too often present where it does not belong, while many fail to see that such processes damage not only the society but also the church, by compromising its evangelical mission on earth,” Đorđević said.

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