Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej: "Foreign officials knew about crimes"
Irinej said in his message, ahead of Orthodox Christmas, that the crime that saw body parts of missing Kosovo Serbs sold for money was taking place with the knowledge of representatives of the international community.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Thursday, January 06, 2011
The patriarch said that this was one of the most serious examples of violations of rights of the Serb people in Kosovo, and described it as taking place "along with icy, indifferent, and in many cases accomplice-like silence of representatives of the international community".
"But truth and divine justice always have the last word. That is what the birth of Christ guarantees to us, we feel that and know that," Irinej said in his message.
"Fascist occupation of Kosovo continues"
Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral has stated that fascist occupation of the southern Serbian province continues to this day.
He said that current situation in Kosovo "is actually the continuation of the Nazi-Fascist occupation from the World War II, and which is even more tragic, with longer-term consequences."
"The church in Kosovo is facing many challenges, the first and foremost of which is Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence," he told.
According to him, the consequences of this violent act are torn down temples, stolen church and national property, hundreds of Orthodox Serbs exiled from their centuries-old homes, no conditions for their return, increasing poverty and existential threats to the remaining Serbs and all of other Kosovo inhabitants.
