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Vidovdan, Our Souls’ Eyesight
“620 years since the fateful Battle of Kosovo, we have gathered here to honor our glorious ancestors who have laid down their lives so we can live in Kosovo and Metohija today. They knew why the Kosovo Battle was fought, they knew what were they defending and whom were they defending.
“We today also know why have we gathered here: to pray to the Lord and to say that Kosovo is a sacred Serbian land, drenched in blood, tears and sweat of our forefathers. Kosovo was, is and will be the heart of Serbia, just as it was 620 years ago,” Bishop Artemije of Rashka-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija Diocese of Serbian Orthodox Church said in his address to tens of thousands of Serbs gathered at a memorial service to the fallen Kosovo heroes, held annually in Gračanica and Gazimestan on Vidovdan, in the southern Serbian province of Kosovo.
After the Holy Liturgy, which Bishop Artemije served with the assistance of Metropolitan Amfilohije and all the clergy of Kosovo-Metohija Diocese, before the Serbs gathered from all parts of Kosovo province, as well as those who have come from other Serbian regions, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and elsewhere, Kosovo-Metohija first hierarch reminded of the significance Vidovdan has for Serbs.
Commentary
Indictment Against the KLA Butchers
Serbia’s War Crimes Prosecution issued indictments against 17 members of the so-called Gnjilane Group of the terrorist KLA, charged with war crimes against the civilian population on the territory of Gnjilane municipality (Kosovo and Metohija province) from June to September 1999, when they brutally tortured at least 150, killed in a monstrous way at least 52 Serbs, as well as a number of Roma and Albanians, and raped a large number of women.
According to the indictment, the first accused, Albanians Fazlija Ajdari, Redzep Aliji, Sacir Saciri and the other 5 KLA members currently on the run ordered, while 9 of them who were arrested on 26 December 2008 and are in custody in Belgrade executed illegal detention, rape, inhuman treatment, torture, mutilation and murder of the civilians in three locations in Gnjilane municipality.
Taking advantage of the end of hostilities between the Yugoslav forces and NATO and withdrawal of the Yugoslav Army and police from Kosovo and Metohija province, the accused — members of the 138th KLA brigade and other units of the Albanian terrorist troops — were transferred from the central Serbian region (Bujanovac and Preševo) and Macedonia, where they resided, to Gnjilane in the middle of June 1999.
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Morally Exalted Western Europe was Cashing in on Bosnian Bloodbath
Former President of Republika Srpska (RS, Serb Republic in post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina) Radovan Karadžić has requested documents on illegal shipments of arms to Bosnian Muslim paramilitaries during the 1992-1995 civil war in the former Yugoslav republic. Also, 18 witnesses confirm Karadžić was guaranteed immunity by the United States.
Karadžić’s defense team request, submitted to Austrian authorities through their embassy in Hague, Netherlands, urges Austrian officials to submit report which confirmed weapon shipments to Bosnia after police searched the offices of Vienna-based agency, registered as an organization for “distribution of humanitarian aid to Third World countries”.
Member of Karadžić’s defense team Milivoje Ivanišević said the trail, in addition to illegal weapon shipments, involves manipulations with enormous profits from illicit arm trades pocketed by the highest Western European officials, who drew great financial benefits from the Bosnian bloodbath.
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War Criminal Agim Ceku Arrested
Serbian Ministry of Justice is requesting extradition of Albanian war criminal Agim Ceku, arrested Tuesday at a border checkpoint as he was trying to enter Bulgaria from Macedonia. This is the fourth time in the past 6 years Kosovo Albanian killer, former commander of the terrorist KLA and its later incarnation “Kosovo Protection Corps” was arrested on a red Interpol arrest warrant issued by Serbia. According to the criminal procedure initiated before the Niš court, Ceku stands accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Bulgarian authorities initially set Ceku’s detention to 24 hours, but before the deadline expired his detention was extended to another 72 hours. Within that time frame, Serbian authorities should submit all the necessary documentation for Ceku’s extradition.
Justice minister Snežana Malović expects Bulgarian officials will urgently make a decision to extradite Ceku to Serbia. She said the extradition process could be implemented in line with the European Convention on Extradition, although Serbia and Bulgaria have a contract on the international legal assistance in criminal matters since 1960.
UPDATE: US, UK, France Press Bulgaria for Ceku Release, “International actors working on Ceku’s release”, Bulgaria releases the war criminal on Thursday, even after Amnesty International backed Serbia’s request for extradition and “called upon the Bulgarian authorities to extradite promptly Agim Ceku to Serbia… to face trial on war crimes charges.”
Interview
Serbian Orthodox Monk and His Wolves
Serbian Orthodox Hieromonk Amvrosije, the sole guardian and hegumen (Serb. iguman, abbot) of the recently restored 12th century monastery Kovilje, has tamed two wolves, a fox, an eagle, a snake, raven, rabbit and an owl. His parishioners say their devoted young priest is a God’s miracle.
At one time, there were many monks in Kovilje Monastery, situated at the foot of a spectacular Javor Mountain in central Serbia. The 12th century Serbian Orthodox monastery with two cave churches, Church of St. Archangel Gabriel and St. Nicholas Church, even housed a school in the old times. Today, there is only one monk praying and serving here, in the ancient ascetic monastery exuding ethereal peace, shrouded in nature’s opulence.
Ever since Serbian television broadcast a documentary about the devout young hieromonk, the story about Hegumen Amvrosije (Alimpijević) and his “pact with wolves” had crossed Serbian borders, and tens of thousands of people have seen YouTube videos of him with the female wolf Fr. Amvrosije calls Alpha.
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Serbian Iliad in Oil by Pavle Paja Jovanović
Serbia has dedicated year 2009 to Pavle “Paja” Jovanović (1859-1957), nation’s greatest academic realist painter alongside Uroš Predić. On the occasion of 150 years since his birth, an exhibition of Pavle Jovanović’s paintings, drawings and sketches is being held from June 16 to July 16, in the town of Vršac (84 km northeast of Belgrade), the great master’s birthplace.
Born on 4 June 1859, Pavle Jovanović was a son of professional photographer Stevan Jovanović, a gifted artist in his own right.
His extravagant talent became apparent in the early childhood, when attending liturgical services with his parents before the iconostasis painted by Pavle Đurković and Arsa Teodorović left a permanent imprint on Jovanović’s aesthetic sensibility, sparking passion for monumental epic compositions that will follow prodigal painter throughout his life and on his many journeys.
Alexander Dorin: “Srebrenica Massacre” is a Western Myth
“In the West, the popular mythology about 7,000-8,000 Muslim men being executed in Srebrenica in 1995 is still alive and well, but independent research shows some 2,000 Bosnian Muslim fighters were killed in battle for Srebrenica and that is the number of bodies Hague investigators were able to find”, said Swiss researcher Alexander Dorin, who has been investigating Srebrenica events for the past 14 years.
In his latest book titled “Srebrenica — The History of Salon Racism” (Srebrenica — die Geschichte eines salonfahigen Rassismus) published this month in Berlin, Dorin focuses on manipulations with the number of Muslims who lost their lives in Srebrenica.
Serbian Brothers in Germany: Lusatian Serbs
Just like in the 1990s, during the civil war in the territory of former Yugoslavia, in recent years too German media supported the decision of their government both when it came to recognizing the mafia state on Serbian territory — its Kosovo and Metohija province — and when it was decided Germany should be the first country in the world to raise their office in Priština to the level of embassy.
Only one political party, the Left (Die Linke), led by two prominent politicians Oskar Lafontaine (former German finance minister and ex chairman of the leading Social Democratic Party) and Gregor Gizi, distanced itself from those decisions. Last year was the first time Die Linke received a significant number of votes also on the territory of the former West Germany, in addition to its popularity in the former East Germany. But although Die Linke represents the opinion of many Germans, the mainstream media in Germany noted their opposition to imposed redrawing of Serbian borders only at the very bottom of newspapers, as a side note. Much greater attention was given to the information that “Lusatian Serbs oppose the secession of Kosovo province from Serbia.”
Srebrenica ID, by Milivoje Ivanišević
Milivoje Ivanišević, a publicist and war-crimes investigator in former Bosnia-Herzegovina, in his essay “Searching for the Truth,” proves that there are at least two sides (he refers to them two “Identification Cards” or “IDs”) for Srebrenica, which are tied to the events that took place in July 1995.
The Srebrenica ID Card, full 34-page report by Milivoje Ivanisevic in PDF format, published in Serbian in May 2007, by Glas Javnosti, and translated by Milo Yelesiyevich.
Kosovo: Can You Imagine?
“Although I expected Western sources to differ from reality, I never expected to find people living in ghettos in the 21st century in Europe,” Boris Malagurski, a young Canadian filmmaker who just finished documentary about the Serbian Kosovo province, said.
Shocked with the abysmal lack of even the most basic human rights for the remaining Kosovo-Metohija Serbs, stranded in a province brutally carved out of Serbia by the powerful Western states, which used Albanian terrorists and criminals to impose dismemberment of a UN-member state, Boris Malagurski decided to make a documentary that would offer an unembellished glimpse into everyday dread in a land butchered away.
Kustendorf 2009 Highlights
“Bad movies are indestructible,” said Kusturica, after the reel of Hollywood blockbuster movie Die Hard 4 — ceremoniously buried at the opening of the first Kustendorf Festival last year — suddenly morphed into a Bruce Willis character who turned into a vampire and, to the utter horror of the peaceful Drvengrad villagers, with his super-human strength, broke out of what was supposed to be his final resting place. His cool black jacket caught fire from the candles lit at the annual commemoration of his passing and he turned into a giant torch. Die Hard 5 ran, roared, moaned and groaned, stumbled and fell…
Earlier
Today is Vidovdan Today is Vidovdan! What good news, what Gospel is announced to us on today’s great, holy and terrible Day? Behold, before all else, it brings us the magnificent God’s saint, the Holy Czar Lazar. He carries a platter with his head upon it. Wherefore Holy King? To the Kingdom of Heaven.
Jeremić: Serbia will Not Yield on Kosovo Province Tens of thousands of Serbs would like to return to their southern province of Kosovo and Metohija but have been stonewalled in their attempts to recover illegally seized property, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday.
Bosnian Croats Moving to Republic of Srpska According to Leo Pločkinić, President of the Mostar-based NGO Croatia Libertas, a growing number of Croat families are selling their property in the capital of the Croat-Muslim federation of post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina, and moving to East Sarajevo municipalities, in the Bosnian Serb Republic (Republika Srpska, RS).
Otpor Now in Iran, Courtesy of Uncle Sam We know Washington is orchestrating and funding coup d’état presently taking place in Iran, among else because it was reported back in 2006 that United States decided to use covert means to remove Ahmadinejad from power, from within — it is much cheaper, safer and entirely pain-free for the Empire, in comparison to an open warfare. We also know pro-US activists in Iran have been receiving “aid from the West” since 2004, when the so-called “Iran Human Rights Documentation Center” based at Yale University, received $1 million from “a smaller American government aid program intended for Iran’s opposition inside the country”.
Serbian Sovereignty Fully Restored Over Kosovo Province in 5 Years Marko Jakšić, Vice President of the Parliament of Kosovo and Metohija Municipalities said recent recommendations given by the former US Ambassador William Montgomery to allow the Serb Republic in Bosnia to secede and divide Kosovo province between Serbs and Albanians, is a trial balloon and a hook Serbs should reject. There is no reason for Serbs to divide something that belongs to them anyway, Jakšić said, assessing that Serbian state will restore full sovereignty over its southern province in five years at the most.
Black Propaganda: Of Spooks, Journos and Politicos Three books, compiling impressive evidence about the unsavory collusion of mainstream media with the elites in power, offer an invaluable insight into the intricacies of black propaganda, war-making, manufacturing consent and cover-up of the real motives and agenda behind the all-too-frequent Anglo-American philanthropic pursuits, threatening to devour the globe. Anyone who still views “unexpected outbreak of hostilities” or wars, seemingly out of the blue “crisis” and political emergencies as a series of unconnected, random, unrelated events mysteriously flaring up in various parts of the world in cryptically rhythmic intervals, like tornadoes and earthquakes, should consider these three books a must read, to break free from the paralyzing delusion.
Lt. General Stevanović: Kumanovo Agreement was Never Honored Kumanovo Agreement was signed ten years ago, on 9 June 1999, after 5 days of negotiations between the American and British NATO/KFOR representatives and Serbian military and police leadership. Ending the 78 days of NATO aggression against FR Yugoslavia, based on the Yugoslav side’s acceptance to withdraw its security forces and allow the international troops, under the UN auspices, to take over the peace and security in Kosovo province, the Military Technical Agreement signed in Kumanovo also contained some key guarantees given to Serbia by the NATO/KFOR, none of which, apart from cessation of aggression, were honored by the Western alliance.
Ten Years of NATO-Induced Hell June 10 2009 marks ten years — 3,652 days — since the withdrawal of the Yugoslav Army and arrival of the international military and civilian mission to the Serbian Kosovo and Metohija province, after NATO aggression against Serbia. On that day ten years ago, before the eyes of 44,000 soldiers from 39 countries, 10,000 UN police members from 53 countries and over 10,000 UN administrators, a mass ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Serbs and other non-Albanians has begun.
Yugoslav Civil War Yet to Be Properly Examined Pandora’s box on who was doing what during the civil war in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s will be fully open in due time, when all the archives become available, the investigators of the Serbian Institute for Strategic Research of Defence Ministry said, commenting the master thesis of Slovenian researcher Marko Prešeren about the outbreak of hostilities and armed insurrection in Slovenia in 1991, which recently stirred the public in a former Yugoslav republic.
Vladimir Kršljanin: Serbia’s True Face Vladimir Kršljanin, close associate of the late Yugoslav and Serbian President Slobodan Milošević and a former member of the uppermost leadership of the Serbian Socialist Party, is today presiding over the Serbian National Movement, one of the youngest organizations on Serbian political scene, which gained prominence during the recent commemoration of 10 years since NATO aggression against Serbia.
Western-Funded NGOs Destroying Serbia That the title of “non-governmental organizations” for the most hysterical anti-Serbian clubs operating in Serbia is a cynical oxymoron has been well known since the late President Milošević’s government. Back then, in their early days, the Serbophobic conclaves established and financed by the Western governments and instrumentalized by the foreign secret services were given a fully deserved label of “foreign mercenaries and domestic traitors”, a tag they failed to shake off to this day.
Signs of Unraveling Gung-ho push for illegal seizure of southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija, brought about through Albanian terrorism and ethnic cleansing of non-Albanians from the province, American-led NATO aggression against Serbia and unilateral declaration of independence by the Albanian secessionists in Priština on 17 February 2008, and followed by the equally belligerent Anglo-American campaign for the recognitions of the first heroin state in Europe — with the biggest American military base on the continent as its capital — is slowly but surely starting to show the signs of unraveling.
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