Serb graveyard in central Kosovo desecrated
Almost all the tombstones from the Serb Orthodox graveyard in Vucitrn, central Kosovo, have been found desecrated by several hundred Serbs who visited on Sunday the graves of their loved ones for the first time in ten years.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, August 03, 2009
The Serbs were expelled from their homes after the 1999 conflict, and had left the graveyard intact.
But on Sunday - the religious holiday of St. Ilija (Elijah) - they found almost all the tombstones either destroyed or damaged. There are more than 200 graves there, some the resting places of entire families.
The Kosovo police, KPS, secured the visiting Serbs. While they were gathered at the cemetery, gunshots were heard from nearby.
Police said the shooting was heard from houses close to the church, and the shots were fired by Albanians "celebrating a wedding" in this way.
