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Kosovo Serbs visit desecrated graves
6 June 2009 | 11:30 | Source: B92
BELGRADE -- Serbs will visit the desecrated graves of their loved ones
in Kosovo once again this year on All Souls' Day (Zadušnice).
In an atmosphere described as "more peaceful than in previous years",
some headstones have been destroyed ahead of the religious holiday that
sees Orthodox Serb Christians remember their dead and visit their burial
places four times each year.
In the village of Vidanje, near Klina, inhabited by Serb returnees,
fresh scenes of desecration were seen in the local cemetery this week.
This time, six graves were vandalized.
Along with those destroyed in the previous years, this in effect means
that there is no untouched headstone in this graveyard.
The Serbs in Vidanje say they do not know who the vandals are, and have
reported the incident to the police. But they do say that each new
attack comes ahead of All Souls' Day.
Hardly any Orthodox cemetery in the province has been completely
preserved. In the past, the burial places in Priština, Uroševac,
Prizren, Đakovica, Peć, Kosovska Mitrovica, have often been the target
of attack of ethnic Albanians.
No one has yet received a notable punishment for desecrating Orthodox
graves.
Today, it remains unclear how Serb IDPs will visit the graves of their
family and friends: organized or individually.
On last All Souls' Day bad weather was cited as the reason not to offer
organized transportation to those visiting the cemeteries.
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