“Greater Albania” advocates the destruction of the remnants of Serbian culture and attempts to create a Kosovo culture which would appropriate everything on its territory. Over 100 Serbian Orthodox churches were destroyed in Kosovo between 1999 and 2004 alone, while the breakaway territory was administered by the United Nations.
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Members of the UN cultural body UNESCO are expected to vote on Kosovo's entry into the organization on November 9.
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Instagram Deletes Account for Revealing Destroyed Serb Churches in Kosovo
Sputnik via Pravoslavie, November 7, 2015
Hoping to foil Kosovo's attempt to become a member of UNESCO, ethnically Serbian student activists in the self-proclaimed state created a page on Instagram called “No to Kosovo's Membership in UNESCO.” There they posted photos of numerous Orthodox Christian places of worship and significance, including monasteries, churches and cemeteries, which were demolished in the years after ethnic Albanian Muslims gained de facto independence with the help of a deadly NATO bombing campaign and EU endorsement. Instagram responded by blocking the account for its “disturbing content.”
“We have been told that we are posting disturbing images, and we simply posted the truth -- the burning of Serb churches and monasteries, the holy places, the destruction of monuments, tombs, and so on,” Nemanja Bisevac, one of the account’s administrators, told journalists.
Jovan Aleksic, another administrator of the account and an activist with the protest group Students for Truth (Studenti za Istinu), told Sputnik Serbia he believes the Instagram page was suspended after a complaint from “those who are pushing the so-called Kosovo state forward to UNESCO.” pointing at the Albanian administration of the breakaway region.
The account was a part of a broader campaign dubbed “No to Kosovo's Membership in UNESCO.” led by Kosovan Serbian students, which hopes to deny Kosovo UNESCO membership.
“We have sent letters with photos and videos attached that speak for the destruction of the Serbian cultural heritage in Kosovo … to representatives of all 195 UNESCO member states. We’ve held a large protest in [the north Kosovan Serb town of] Sremska Mitrovica against so-called Kosovo becoming a member of UNESCO,” Aleksic said.
Also, Students for Truth have produced videos in Serbian, English and Arabic, showing the almost total annihilation of Kosovo's Serbian religious and cultural heritage.
Members of the UN cultural body UNESCO are expected to vote on Kosovo's entry into the organization on November 9.
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in February 2008; Belgrade still considers it to be part of Serbia. Admission of Kosovo to UNESCO requires the support of two-thirds of the 195 members, 111 of whom have recognized Kosovo's independence.
A country or territory does not have to be a UN member or to have universally recognized status to enter UNESCO. Palestine, for instance, joined the organization in 2011.
Darko Tanaskovic, Serbia’s UNESCO ambassador told Sputnik Serbia earlier that the ideology of “Greater Albania” advocates the destruction of the remnants of Serbian culture and attempts to create a Kosovo culture which would appropriate everything on its territory. Over 100 Serbian Orthodox churches were destroyed in Kosovo between 1999 and 2004 alone, while the breakaway territory was administered by the United Nations.
The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) was founded on 16 November 16, 1945; its World Heritage list includes 802 cultural sites of global significance. The only listed site in Kosovo is a series of monasteries and a church, mostly dating back to the Byzantine Empire. In July, 2006, UNESCO's World Heritage Committee included the Medieval Monuments in Kosovo in its Danger List, citing "difficulties in its management and conservation stemming from the region's political instability."
The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church issued this statement:
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2015/11/save-christian-world-heritage-in-kosovo-metohija-nokosovounesco.html/#sthash.7mwCi81a.dpuf
Serbian Patriarch to His Spiritual Children: Save Serbian and World HeritageGo to this web site for more information about this important cause.
4. November 2015 – 9:40
BY THE GRACE OF GOD,
ARCHBISHOP OF PEC, METROPOLITAN OF BELGRADE-KARLOVCI AND SERBIAN PATRIARCH IRINEJ
Dear spiritual children,
Our brothers and sisters in Kosovo and Metohija and the holy shrines of the Serbian Orthodox Church are in great danger, because the proponents of the so-called state of Kosovo want to obtain the membership in UNESCO and confiscate Serbian churches and monasteries. Therefore, the Serbian Patriarchate calls all pious and Orthodox people, all people of good will and everyone who cares about the rights and justice in the world, to oppose the so-called state of Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO, which threaten to cause a humanitarian disaster and destruction of Serbian Orthodox shrines and thus the UNESCO world’s heritage.
Consequently, the Serbian Orthodox Church announced on its website www.spc.rs some most relevant information.
We strongly invite you to share the following information on our website, and to share the website SAVE WORLD HERITAGE http://saveworldheritage.org/ through your social media and internet means in the most visible way possible, until 9 November 2015; join our efforts to inform the international community of the gravity of situation and the current danger threatening the sacred, spiritual and cultural heritage and Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija. We are convinced that this kind of information would help many uninformed people get informed quickly and efficiently.
We believe this would help the members of the General Assembly of UNESCO, despite all the pressures, to make a fair decision before the final vote at the forthcoming session and preserve Serbian and World Heritage in the South Serbian province.
With the blessing,
SERBIAN PATRIARCH
+IRINEJ
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2015/11/save-christian-world-heritage-in-kosovo-metohija-nokosovounesco.html/#sthash.7mwCi81a.dpuf
The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church issued this statement:
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2015/11/save-christian-world-heritage-in-kosovo-metohija-nokosovounesco.html/#sthash.7mwCi81a.dpuf
Serbian Patriarch to His Spiritual Children: Save Serbian and World HeritageGo to this web site for more information about this important cause.
4. November 2015 – 9:40
BY THE GRACE OF GOD,
ARCHBISHOP OF PEC, METROPOLITAN OF BELGRADE-KARLOVCI AND SERBIAN PATRIARCH IRINEJ
Dear spiritual children,
Our brothers and sisters in Kosovo and Metohija and the holy shrines of the Serbian Orthodox Church are in great danger, because the proponents of the so-called state of Kosovo want to obtain the membership in UNESCO and confiscate Serbian churches and monasteries. Therefore, the Serbian Patriarchate calls all pious and Orthodox people, all people of good will and everyone who cares about the rights and justice in the world, to oppose the so-called state of Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO, which threaten to cause a humanitarian disaster and destruction of Serbian Orthodox shrines and thus the UNESCO world’s heritage.
Consequently, the Serbian Orthodox Church announced on its website www.spc.rs some most relevant information.
We strongly invite you to share the following information on our website, and to share the website SAVE WORLD HERITAGE http://saveworldheritage.org/ through your social media and internet means in the most visible way possible, until 9 November 2015; join our efforts to inform the international community of the gravity of situation and the current danger threatening the sacred, spiritual and cultural heritage and Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija. We are convinced that this kind of information would help many uninformed people get informed quickly and efficiently.
We believe this would help the members of the General Assembly of UNESCO, despite all the pressures, to make a fair decision before the final vote at the forthcoming session and preserve Serbian and World Heritage in the South Serbian province.
With the blessing,
SERBIAN PATRIARCH
+IRINEJ
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2015/11/save-christian-world-heritage-in-kosovo-metohija-nokosovounesco.html/#sthash.7mwCi81a.dpuf
The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church issued this statement:
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2015/11/save-christian-world-heritage-in-kosovo-metohija-nokosovounesco.html/#sthash.7mwCi81a.dpuf
Serbian Patriarch to His Spiritual Children: Save Serbian and World HeritageGo to this web site for more information about this important cause.
4. November 2015 – 9:40
BY THE GRACE OF GOD,
ARCHBISHOP OF PEC, METROPOLITAN OF BELGRADE-KARLOVCI AND SERBIAN PATRIARCH IRINEJ
Dear spiritual children,
Our brothers and sisters in Kosovo and Metohija and the holy shrines of the Serbian Orthodox Church are in great danger, because the proponents of the so-called state of Kosovo want to obtain the membership in UNESCO and confiscate Serbian churches and monasteries. Therefore, the Serbian Patriarchate calls all pious and Orthodox people, all people of good will and everyone who cares about the rights and justice in the world, to oppose the so-called state of Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO, which threaten to cause a humanitarian disaster and destruction of Serbian Orthodox shrines and thus the UNESCO world’s heritage.
Consequently, the Serbian Orthodox Church announced on its website www.spc.rs some most relevant information.
We strongly invite you to share the following information on our website, and to share the website SAVE WORLD HERITAGE http://saveworldheritage.org/ through your social media and internet means in the most visible way possible, until 9 November 2015; join our efforts to inform the international community of the gravity of situation and the current danger threatening the sacred, spiritual and cultural heritage and Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija. We are convinced that this kind of information would help many uninformed people get informed quickly and efficiently.
We believe this would help the members of the General Assembly of UNESCO, despite all the pressures, to make a fair decision before the final vote at the forthcoming session and preserve Serbian and World Heritage in the South Serbian province.
With the blessing,
SERBIAN PATRIARCH
+IRINEJ
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2015/11/save-christian-world-heritage-in-kosovo-metohija-nokosovounesco.html/#sthash.7mwCi81a.dpuf
