| EU awards Kosovo heritage center |
| 19 April 2007 | 16:42 | Source: B92 |
| BELGRADE -- The Mnemosyne Centre for Protection of Kosovo's Natural and Cultural Heritage has been awarded a EU prize. The Center’s president Mirjana Menković received the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage - Europa Nostra Award for the “Urgent Protection of Heritage in Metohija” project in Belgrade Wednesday. The award was presented the National Museum by Denis de Kergorlay, Vice-President of Europa Nostra, a European association of cultural heritage protection NGOs, the government reported. Menković expressed her satisfaction at the fact the project was carried out in cooperation with seven monument protection associations in Europe and the Central Registration Institute in Rome as well as the Serbian Orthodox Church, and with support Italian NGO Intersos’ support. The project’s aim was to attract public attention to the alarming situation in Kosovo and the necessity of creating basic prerequisites for protection, preservation and revitalization of damaged buildings there. |
Friday, April 20, 2007
EU awards Kosovo heritage center
Thursday, April 19, 2007
ОСУЈЕЋЕН ПОКУШАЈ УПАДА У ЦЕТИЊСКИ МАНАСТИР
ОСУЈЕЋЕН ПОКУШАЈ УПАДА У ЦЕТИЊСКИ МАНАСТИР
За то време испред манастира на Цетињу окупила се група од око 100 неупућених и заведених, присталица Мираша Дедејића, рашчињеног свештеника, покушавајући да, поред припадника полиције, уђе у манастир. Пошто нису успели у својој намери, они су покушали да службу врше у цркви на Ћипуру, али је и тај покушај пропао.
Дакле, подвлачимо да та групица, коју су сачињавали људи са стране и неколико десетина Цетињана, није извршила никакво тзв. богослужење данас у Цетињу како су то саопштили поједини злонамерни медији медији у Црној Гори и Србији.
Треба такође напоменути, да овом немилом догађају грађани Цетиња, а ни осталих градова у Црној Гори, нису придали никакав значај. Са друге стране, бојимо се да се ови покушаји не понове, јер сигурно имају за циљ отимање храмова Митрополије црногорско-приморске.
У прилогу достављамо Саопштење за јавност Митрополија црногорско-приморске поводом горенаведених догађаја:
САОПШТЕЊЕ ЗА ЈАВНОСТ МИТРОПОЛИЈЕ ЦРНОГОРСКО ПРИМОРСКЕ ПОВОДОМ НЕМИЛИХ ДОГАЂАЈА НА ЦЕТИЊУ
Благодарећи Богу и светињама Цетињског манастира, данашњи дан протекао је без сукоба, које су стотињак присталица распопа Дедеића покушали да изазову насилним уласком у Цетињски манастир, цркву на Ћипуру и Влашку цркву.
Сачуван је грађански мир и од скрнављења светиње Митрополије Црногорско-приморске.
Управа полиције је професионално одрадила свој посао, а грађани Цетиња су и овога пута показали мудрост, тако што нијесу насјели позивима присталица распопа Дедеића да их злоупотреби у своје богоборне сврхе, на чему им благодаримо, молећи се Господу да умножи духовне и сваке друге дарове на Цетињане, и остале Црногорце.
Ипак, после овог нецивилизацијског чина који се данас догодио на Цетињу, остала је горчина због чињенице да присталице Мираша Дедеића – а показало се да су из Црне Горе успјели да их мобилишу тек стотинак – имају здравој памети и новинарском кодексу невјероватан третман у неколико црногорских медија, посебно на државној телевизији која, и овом приликом се показало, неправедно носи прерогатив Јавног сервиса. Групица људи, посредством неколико медија, нападно, већ данима, црногорске грађане позива на насиље. На ово црногорски Јавни тужилац упорно ћути.
Искрено вјерујући у оснажење државних институција система Црне Горе и молећи се Светом Петру Цетињском и самом Свевишњем, остајемо у нади да се данашње безакоње, које је плод вишедневних најава, никада неће поновити.
У Цетињу,
18.04.2007.г.
СЛУЖБА ЗА САОПШТЕЊА
МИТРОПОЛИЈЕ ЦРНОГОРСКО-ПРИМОРСКЕ
What will become of the Cristians of Kosovo??
What will become of the Cristians of Kosovo??
Ruins of the Devic Monastery of St. Joanikije , (c. 1440), looted and vandalized, and the marble tomb of the saint desecrated. June 1999. Source: Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren
provoked NATO's 1999 bombing war against Serbia with
malice of forethought, as a gesture to the Muslim world.
The United States in effect was willing to bomb Christians in
order to protect Muslims, in this case the Albanian Kosovo
majority whom it accused the Serbs of mistreating.
That is precisely what the Democrats say. In a January 3 article
in the Financial Times, Democratic Senator Joseph Biden
contended that Kosovo independence would constitute a
"victory for Muslim democracy", and "a much-need example
of US-Muslim partnership".
Contrary to American propaganda at the time,
no massacres had occurred; the Serbs had shot
a few thousand Muslim militants in their efforts
to pacify the province.
Clinton's, then secretary of state Madeleine Albright and UN
ambassador Richard Holbrooke deluded themselves that they
could cash in the chips earned in Kosovo at the negotiating
table in the Middle East. The neo-conservatives cheered the
Clinton bombing campaign, believing perhaps that any American
show of force was better than no show of force.
No modern people have proven a greater inconvenience than the Serbs.
They threw off two foreign yokes unaided - the Ottomans during
the 19th century, and the Germans during the World War II. Out
of pride and pig-headedness, Serbia refused to give up the Muslim
-majority province of Bosnia to Austria, and the murder of the
Austrian Crown Prince Ferdinand by extremists supported by
Serbian intelligence sparked World War I.
(The vast majority of Bosnians are Serbs that have been
Islamized over the centuries)gs
After initial reverses, Serbia marched its army and a large part
of its population over the mountains in mid-winter and regrouped,
eventually throwing out the Austrian and German armies, at the
cost of 28% of its total population and 58% of its men.
Serbia has had a brutal history which has made its leaders brutal,
as the world observed during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia.
But Serbian demands in the case of Kosovo today are limited
and reasonable, namely a partition that serves the interests
of the small Christian minority. I do not think Russia will let
Washington make a horrible example of them in order to create
an example of "US-Muslim partnership".
In a Feb. 18 letter to President George Bush, the Serbian Orthodox
bishop Artemije of Kosovo and Metohija – the ranking church official
in the region – said that granting the province independence would
hand terrorists “a significant victory” in Europe.
“Detaching Kosovo from democratic Serbia would mean a virtual
sentence of extinction for my people in the province – the larger
part of my diocese – who continue to face unremitting violence
from jihad terrorist and criminal elements that dominate the
Albanian Muslim leadership,” the bishop said.
Dozens of churches, monasteries and shrines have been destroyed
or damaged since 1999 in Kosovo, the cradle of Orthodox Christianity
in Serbia. The Serbian Orthodox Church lists nearly 150 attacks on
holy places, which often involve desecration of altars, vandalism of
icons and the ripping of crosses from Church rooftops.
A March 2004 rampage by Albanian mobs targeted Serbs and 19 people,
including eight Kosovo Serbs, were killed and more than 900 injured,
according Agence France Press. The UN mission in Kosovo, AFP said,
reported that 800 houses and 29 Serb Orthodox churches and monasteries
– some of them dating to the 14th century -- were torched during the
fighting. NATO had to rush 2,000 extra troops to the province to stop
the destruction.
All this happened despite the presence of UN peacekeeping forces.
According to news reports posted by the American Council for Kosovo,
Albanian separatists are opposing the expansion of military protection
of Christian holy sites by UN forces. A main concern of Christians is
the fate of the Visoki Decani Monastery – Kosovo's only UNESCO
World Heritage Site.
Ruins of the Devic Monastery of St. Joanikije , (c. 1440), looted and vandalized, and the marble tomb of the saint desecrated. June 1999. Source: Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren
Journalist Srdja Trifkovic, writing on Serbianna.com, said an
independent Kosovo would lead to a “criminal state not seen
since the defunct Taliban regime in Afghanistan” and right on
Europe’s southern border.
Although the international community understandably desires
“closure” on Kosovo some seven years after the UN assumed
control, an outcome that separates the province from Serbia
would “make a mockery” of some the United States’ most
important security concerns, he said.
“It would be hard to find another example of a place where
governments professing the war on international terrorism as
their first priority are helping a Muslim terrorist movement with
a strong jihadist element to detach what is universally recognized
as a part of another sovereign state and consigning the remaining
Christian element to extinction,” Trifkovic said.
Given the record of Christian persecution in Kosovo while under
the supervision and protection of the UN, what could be expected
from an independent province administered by Albanian Muslim
politicians and security forces?
Without adequate legal protection and security, the
Christian minority and the centuries-old legacy of the
faith in Kosovo may soon become a mere memory.
Over 200,000 Christian Serbian refugees have fled Kosovo!
The Bill Clinton administration, in this writer's considered view,provoked NATO's 1999 bombing war against Serbia with
malice of forethought, as a gesture to the Muslim world.
The United States in effect was willing to bomb Christians in
order to protect Muslims, in this case the Albanian Kosovo
majority whom it accused the Serbs of mistreating.
That is precisely what the Democrats say. In a January 3 article
in the Financial Times, Democratic Senator Joseph Biden
contended that Kosovo independence would constitute a
"victory for Muslim democracy", and "a much-need example
of US-Muslim partnership".
Contrary to American propaganda at the time,
no massacres had occurred; the Serbs had shot
a few thousand Muslim militants in their efforts
to pacify the province.
Clinton's, then secretary of state Madeleine Albright and UN
ambassador Richard Holbrooke deluded themselves that they
could cash in the chips earned in Kosovo at the negotiating
table in the Middle East. The neo-conservatives cheered the
Clinton bombing campaign, believing perhaps that any American
show of force was better than no show of force.
No modern people have proven a greater inconvenience than the Serbs.
They threw off two foreign yokes unaided - the Ottomans during
the 19th century, and the Germans during the World War II. Out
of pride and pig-headedness, Serbia refused to give up the Muslim
-majority province of Bosnia to Austria, and the murder of the
Austrian Crown Prince Ferdinand by extremists supported by
Serbian intelligence sparked World War I.
(The vast majority of Bosnians are Serbs that have been
Islamized over the centuries)gs
After initial reverses, Serbia marched its army and a large part
of its population over the mountains in mid-winter and regrouped,
eventually throwing out the Austrian and German armies, at the
cost of 28% of its total population and 58% of its men.
Serbia has had a brutal history which has made its leaders brutal,
as the world observed during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia.
But Serbian demands in the case of Kosovo today are limited
and reasonable, namely a partition that serves the interests
of the small Christian minority. I do not think Russia will let
Washington make a horrible example of them in order to create
an example of "US-Muslim partnership".
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