The Tragedy of Kosovo
by
Theodoros Georgiou Karakostas
Byzantine Cultural Project
There is a superb DVD that is available entitled, "Days Made of Fear". It
is a must view for all Orthodox Christians. It is about the plight of the
Serbian Orthodox faithful in Kosovo. Eight small documentaries focusing on
various aspects of the ethnic cleansing campaign against the Serbs since
1998 have been produced.
The footage of ravaged and destroyed Serbian Churches and Monasteries is
appalling. The DVD is a shocking affirmation that the American television
Networks such as CNN, FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC, and the others are all lined up
with the foreign policy establishment and are active practitioners of
official censorship.
I cannot recall seeing any of the horrifying footage on this DVD on
American
television. Maybe I do not adequately monitor television news, but I doubt
whether CNN has ever extended any coverage to the killings of Serbs. There
is plenty of footage of Serbian men, women, and children who are confined
in their own villages for their own safety. They cannot even go out by
themselves without "peacekeepers" to get supplies for fear they will be
killed by Albanian militants.
Their are images of Churches and Monasteries that stood in 2002 or 2001,
and there are more recent images to show that those same houses of worship
exist no more. Serbs are interviewed and tell of their heartbreaking
experiences. There is for example, footage of a Serbian mother and family
at the funeral of her schoolteacher son who was murdered simply because he
was a Serb. Numerous Orthodox Churches are desecrated with the initials for
the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Desecrated Cemeteries are depicted, and there are scenes of Serbian priests
holding services and giving communion outdoors because the Churches have
been burned to the ground. There is other footage of Serbian Nuns returning
to their Nunnery which has been destroyed. There are many touching and
heartfelt scenes of Serbian children playing games and attending school,
trying to live a normal life under catastrophic conditions.
All this of course is not going to be shown on American television. The
same US
media which continues to attack the Bush administration for lying about the
Iraq war, continues to give Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Richard
Holbrooke, Wesley Clark, and Samuel Berger a pass for their destructive war
on Yugoslavia. We should remember also that at the last Democratic National
Convention in Boston two years ago, one of the top KLA men was an honored
guest of John Kerry.
The same US media which was appalled by the Taliban's destruction of the
2,000
year old Buddhist statues has nothing to say about the remarkable Serbian
Orthodox Churches and Monasteries which have stood since the period
preceding the Ottoman conquests, and which are being systematically
destroyed. There are most interesting interviews with Kosovo Bishop
Artemije, Father Sava Jancic, and other Priests, Monks, and Nuns who
discuss the problems of the Kosovo Serbs.
There is footage depicting the efforts of the Church in Kosovo to survive
despite
the horrors. There is footage of new Monks being tonsured, and there is a
superb
documentary about the Decani Monastery. This DVD should be seen by all
Orthodox Christians, especially Greeks. The scenes of destroyed Churches
bear
a strong resemblance to the Greek Churches of Turkish occupied Cyprus.
This DVD proves how morally, politically, and intellectually corrupt the
American
media and government have become. Their is a supposed war on terror when
terrorists in Kosovo are systematically presiding over the complete
destruction
and genocide of an entire group of people. The Serbs of Kosovo have been
forgotten by both the administration supposedly waging a war on terror, and
by
the imaginary opposition in the Democratic Party so obsessed with political
correctness that it opposes all wars against Muslims, while ignorantly
conducting an unjust war against Orthodox Christians.
Indeed, it was the Democrats with their political correctness that eagerly
bombed
Serbia on Orthodox Easter, after they had earlier refused to bomb Iraq on
Ramadan because they did not wish to offend the sensibilities of Muslims.
There are horrible atrocities taking place in Kosovo today against the
Serbian civilian population. There is an additional tragedy in that the
American public is being denied this information.
Serbian News Network - SNN
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