Etnische Säuberungen und Plünderungen der militanten Kosovo Albaner, gegen Serben und Klöster ab 1970

13.8.2010 by ctstmaser.

 Bereits vor 1989 verliessen über 200.000 Serben, wegen dem ständigen Terror der Albaner den Kosovo. Nonnen wurden zusammen geschlagen, das Eigentum der Klöster Tag und Nacht gestohlen. Eine Karte wurde von den Militanten Kosovo Verbrechern sogar aufgestellt, wer und wo man Strategisch die Serben vor allem vertreiben soll und wo Albaner sich bevorzugt niederlassen sollte.

kip to comments. “Kosovo in the New Yugoslavia”
www.kosovo.net ^ | 1984 | Alex Dragnich and Slavko Todorovich
Posted on Samstag, 7. August 2010 01:05:21 by Ravnagora

NOTE: Although the book, “The Saga of Kosovo” by Alex N. Dragnich and Slavko Todorovich was published in 1984, when Yugoslavia was still intact, it continues to be a great source of information and insight into a tiny region of the world that once again has captured the world’s attention. Dragnich and Todorovich are two of the best sources on Kosovo anywhere. “The Saga of Kosovo” explains the evolution of Serbian/Albanian relations in such a way that it should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in current events in that volatile region, particularly anyone who is making policy decisions and legal proclamations. The following chapter, “Kosovo in the New Yugoslavia”, dealing with the then current situation in Kosovo (mid 1980s), continues to resonate, today in 2010.

“Kosovo in the New Yugoslavia” from “The Saga of Kosovo”

Tito, in seeking to win over the Albanians of Kosovo during his wartime struggle to seize power, led them to believe that after the war they would have the right of self-determination, including the right of secession, as we pointed out in chapter twelve. But his decision at the end of the war to make Kosovo-Metohija an autonomous unit within Serbia was not warmly received. Nevertheless, several other actions of the Tito regime began to change the character of Kosovo-Metohija rather radically in favor of the Albanians. As indicated in chapter twelve, some 100,000 Serbs were forced out of Kosovo during World War II, and they were not permitted to return. Moreover, with each passing year, more and more Serbs were forced to leave, between 150,000 and 200,000 in the twenty-year period, 1961-1981. In the meanwhile, in the period after the war, between 200,000 and 240,000 Albanians were brought in from Albania to the Kosovo-Metohija region. And over the years, Kosovo Albanians gained increasing control over events in the province.

Nevertheless, at the very beginning of the new Yugoslav regime, there were considerable difficulties between the Albanian masses and their “liberators.” For example, the Kosovo Albanians resisted the “voluntary mobilization” drive. In some cases they simply ignored the appeal, and had to be herded together in their mountain villages, marched down to check points, and transported under armed escort to recruiting posts. Animosity grew and became intense. In one instance a shoot-out developed, leaving 200 Albanians mowed down. In another, 130 Albanians suffocated when cramped into a former gunpowder depot. The founder of the Albanian Communist Party in 1941, Miladin Popovich, now back in Prishtina, was killed by a Balli Combetar member, who walked into his office and murdered him in cold blood. It was in that evolving atmosphere that the Supreme Command of the People’s Liberation Army issued a decree on February 8, 1945, placing Kosovo under military administration. In a month’s time, the backbone of the opposition was broken. Ironically, it was broken by those who had praised Dimitrije Tutsovich (pre-1914 Serbian socialist) for castigating Serbian bourgeois military methods in dealing with nationality issues!

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of the Serbian settlement.

Two years after the 1981 events,Belgrade’s Politika June 3, 1983), headlined in big letters: MONTHLY–400 EMIGRANTS. The article reported that 10,000 Serbs and Montenegrins had moved out of Kosovo in the previous two years. Kosovo as a whole, it reported, has 1,435 settlements, 666 of which are without a single Serb or Montenegrin, and in 147 settlements they make up only three percent of thc population.

Another reporter (for Pravoslavlje, May 15, 1982) tells of two Montenegrins seen digging in the cemetery of the village of Petrovats: “We moved out in the early spring, but come back to get our deceased mother… It became unbearable here any longer. Now that the village is called Ljugbunar, we could not have a water system, but the Albanians are getting it. There is electricity now, and a paved road as well, but what’s the use, there was no place for us here any more… ”

The chronology of complaints against Albanian aggressiveness as published in the periodical of the Serbian Orthodox Church (Glasnik, July 1982) reads in part:

1969: the ruins of the ancient Serbian church near Veliki Trnovats were converted into a rest room, and a donkey was found inside. . .

1970: the cellar of the Dechani Monastery was broken into several times… 1971: the Orthodox cemetery in Petrich, all tombstones smashed and the accacia forest trees cut. Albanian youngsters attacked Serbian women on their way to the service in St. Nicholas church in the village of Mushutishte, near Prizren…

1972: the main door of the church in the village of Vinarats, near Kosovska Mitrovitsa, was found broken and removed; the same damage was done to the church in the village of Dobrchan, near Gnjilane; in Prizren the church of St. Nicholas was repeatedly damaged; in the village of Shipolje, near Kosovska Mitrovitsa, fifteen tombstones were smashed; in the village of Srbovtsi, eight tombstones, and in the villages of Opterusha, Orahovats, and Ratinje, the same thing. The monastery woods in Mushutishte raided twice this year, some 30 trees cut down. The nuns who opposed the vandals were beaten and exposed to the worst obscenities. Forest trees belonging to St. Demetrius monastery in Preshevo were cut down and sold openly at the local market…

1973: an Albanian cutting a tree on church property wounded the priest who tried to stop him; St. Mark’s monastery church was found with the main door removed, the iconostasis smashed, books torn, and candleholders bent [the same church was later vandalized every time it was repaired ] . .

1977: Rashka and Prizren Bishop Pavle assaulted by an Albanian youngster, who grabbed his beard, shouting, “Hi preacher,” and hit him over the head. The incident occurred in the center of downtown Prizren … 1979: eleven young Albanians raided the Gorioch monastery, shouting insults at the abbot; an unsuccessful burglar set fire in the stable of the Sokolitsa monastery; Devich monastery nuns were assaulted several times and the property plundered …

1980: a professor of the theological school in Prizren was injured in a street attack; the woods of the Holy Trinity monastery near Prizren, raided by five Albanians who cut 64 trees; in the night between March 15/16, at 3 A.M., the old guest house building–with one wing serving as a library and the other as a reliquary–of the Pech Patriarcahte monastery was set afire and burned down …

1981: ten windows of the Saint Urosh church in Uroshevets were broken; thirty eight tombstones at the cemetery of the village of Bresja, and six in the village of Shtinga smashed; the church at Uroshevats raided once again, irredentist slogans written on the wall of an adjacent building…

1982: cemetery tombstones in the yard of the church in Kosovska Mitrovitsa were broken; the Devich monastery lost thirty trees from its woods, the monastery sow was found killed with an axe, and the access road blocked by bulldozed huge stones.

Does all of this look like ugly Albanian nationalism or just plain vandalism on a rampage? Serbs and Montenegrins are traumatized, especially since they are getting no answers. Kosovo leaders, such as Ali Shukrija, admit publicly that Kosovo events “have disrupted relations.. . traumatized Kosovo Albanians as well, I can state that openly. It has been a shock to them too… ” (Borba, May 10-12, 1982).

But such declarations do not satisfy Serbs and Montenegrins. They are looking for deeds not words. They see no energetic and prompt intervention by local authorities, no attempt to bring to justice those responsible for such acts. They want stiff sentences, purging those in authority, and the clear-cut establishment of who is responsible for all of this: the entire Belgrade policy or the particular interpretation of that policy by the Kosovo leaders? After all, the President of the Kosovo Provincial Committee of the League of Communists is a member of the Presidium of the party’s Central Committee. Does he not report to his comrades in Belgrade what is going on in Kosovo? Don’t they ask him about what they must have read in the papers or were told by the Patriarch’s office? Is this some kind of conspiracy of silence, a cover-up, a snow job? Questions, questions, questions… With the degree of independence that the Yugoslav media have today, such a hot issue cannot just be swept under the rug.

True, there have been a few trials, closed to the public. Why closed? Members of “illegal” organizations have gone to prison. But what of Kosovo’s top Albanian leaders? Two have resigned publicly. Is resignation the extent of their penalty? The rector of Prishtina University, the editor of the literary journal, and a few provincial government secretaries were removed from their positions, but slated for other jobs. Is this any way to deal with persons in leadership positions?

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