- Western media publishes sometimes that ex-leaders of Bosnian Serbs Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic are said to have been arrested. The USA persistently says, they are to be arrested very soon. What do you think the further situation as concerning Karadzic and Mladic will be? Will their appearance at the Hague tribunal make the Serbian society indignant?
Serbian and western media touch upon the problem of arrest of Karadzic and Ratko oftener and oftener now. This seems to be a so-called preparation for their detention and further delivery to the Hague tribunal. However, despite the intensified persecution of the Serbian leaders, “Patriotic movement Obraz”, like all Serbian patriots, does everything possible to help General Mladic and Doctor Karadzic to stand the war with the NWO adepts. We render political, material and prayerful support to them. Leader of the movement Neboisha Krstic, who died last year, respected and loved Professor Radovan Karadzic, especially after a personal acquaintance with him. I know these people very well, that is why I am sure, both of them will not surrender to the so-called International Tribunal for Yugoslavian problems voluntarily, even despite their problem situation. Unfortunately, Belgrade’s collaborator power and Banja-Luka follow every instruction issued by Washington. These authorities will do their best to deliver any Serb included in the black list in the west to the Hague Tribunal. The population’s opinion will not be even taken into account at that.
In fact, the Serbian democratic opposition (Yugoslavia’s ruling coalition) aims at making the Serbian people more concerned about hog and hominy, nothing more, and be afraid of possible consequences of their own protests. To put it in other words, the present-day regime makes everything possible to strike apathy, stupidity and disappointment into the Serbian people. But we believe in the people. No matter that Belgrade’s regime dislikes it, but Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic have become a legend for the majority of Serbs, they are treated like national heroes.
For example, sport fans had T-shirts and sport jerseys with portraits of Radovan Karadzic on at the recent Partisan-FMP basketball match. Even top officials fear that an arrest of General Mladic may cause violence in the country.
- During the NATO aggression in Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milosevic managed to join the nation around himself. Does Yugoslavia have a political or religious leader to head the national patriotic movement now? Is there any alternative to the total integration with the west, proclaimed by Yugoslavia’s ruling coalition right after Kostunica’s victory at the presidential elections?
Till the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin last year we had such an outstanding person on the Serbian political scene. I mean chairman of the Patriotic movement Obraz Neboisha Krstic. He was born in 1964, and died right after celebration of his 37th birthday. Neboisha Krstic was an outstanding theologian, writer and philosopher, a wise politician, wonderful orator and founder of the Patriotic movement Obraz. Dozens of Serbian patriots, especially young believers and nationally-oriented people have put him on a pedestal.
At night of December 4, 2001 Neboisha Krstic was murdered by the people, for whom he posed a threat. Two more activists of the movement suffered at that. The murder was declared to be a mere traffic accident. The departments concerned and almost all Serbian mass media hush up the tragedy, although it would be important even for the international community to mention the name of Neboisha Krstic. It seems to be a substantial proof of still going NATO war against the Serbian people, that has become more violent and intricate.
There are many truly devoted to Serbia clergymen at the head of the Orthodox Church, they are bishop Daniil Krstic, former Zaholmsky-Herzegovina bishop Afanasy Evtich and Montenegro-Primorsky metropolitan Amphiloch Radovic. The award presented by Alexey II to the Serbian Patriarchy Pavle is another confirmation of the fraternal relations between the Russian and Serbian people.
It is to be mentioned that the church can not be involved in the politics to the same extent as the secular elite, to keep the people away from final falling into the abyss. The public speech of Alexander Karadjordjevic and activity of Radovan Karadzic are so much promising concerning the situation. The anti-Serb regimes on the Serbian territories and their “advisers” from Washington and Brussels are mistaken when they think that Orthodox Serbia can be destroyed and perpetually humiliated. Be sure, the Serbian people will have thousands of new heroes for revival of the country.
- Certainly, the problem of Kosovo is the greatest one for the Serbian people. What is your opinion about possible development of the situation in Kosovo? As we all know, Serbian monks make every effort to support the life of Kosovo’s monasteries. For several past years already they have been serving an example of surviving under awful conditions. How do the monks manage to live together with the rebellious Albanian militants?
Kosovo and Metohja are a great problem for Serbia that appeared a long time ago. It was hard for us to lose Serbian Kraina, Dalmatia, Slavonija (in Croatia), Bosnia, Herzegovina, South Serbia (now Macedonia), but the Serbian people will hardly reconcile to the separation of Kosovo and Metohja. Those miserable Albanians, whose lives are used in some other people’s interests, are to understand it as well. Albanians lack any national sense and notion of a civilization because of their savagery and ignorance. They have never been able to create a state of their own, not to say about a regular control over it.
Albanians are not satisfied with the fact that in 1913, due to the efforts from the west, they got control over the ancient Serbian town of Shkodra and the whole territory of today’s northern Albania. To be honest, this was not deserved. Albanians are going to take an original territory from their neighbor, the Serbian people, who have been suffering intrigues and tricks of Albanians for years already. At the same time, as metropolitan Amphiloch once mentioned, “the Albanian people is the most tragic nation in Europe.”
Yes, they can make Albanians be predominant in the population of Kosovo and Metohja, but in the future we will recover the area, as well as other occupied Serbian territories. Remember from the history, Serbs already managed to liberate Kosovo of Byzantium, Turkey, Italians and Germans. The God is with us!
It makes no difference for the Serbian people, whether Albanians will create a separate quasi-state or strive for joining Albania. We will accept only a solution when Kosovo and Metohja will be considered to be an integral part of the Serbian territory. Nobody has got the right to trade with this “Serbian Jerusalem”. It concerns the former Communist regime and present-day pro-west power.
As of today, some sources report about 120,000 Serbs being present in Kosovo and Metohja; and ethnic cleansing is going on. Representatives of the UN and KFOR missions ignore the violence in the country. Thousands of Serbian farmer economies, about one hundred of Orthodox churches have been destroyed. Cloisters Visoki Decani Monastery, Gracanica Monastery, Pec Monastery are languishing in poverty because of the invader troops.
The life in the monasteries of Kosovo and Metohja resembles the one of a ghetto. Monks establish almost no contacts with the world. On the other hand, it is better for the monks, otherwise Albanians would tear them to pieces. 1,300 Serbs are missing since stationing of the NATO troops, nothing is known about their lives. The only way to contact the monasteries is telephone or Internet. The lands outside the monasteries’ territories have been occupied by the exiles from Albania. In prayers the monks work in their obedience for the sake of the Cross they have raised. They understand perfectly well that the Orthodoxy in Kosovo and Metohja is experiencing the hardest times over the whole history of the Christian Church.
I would like to stress, Serbian patriots will be always grateful to the Russian people. Russian soldiers guard Devic Monastery, an ancient Serbian monastery (the 15th century). This monastery has suffered most of all from Albanian extremists. Let us hope, the service of Russian soldiers in Kosovo and Metohja will make for strengthening of the traditional relations and co-operation of our people.
Nenad M.Jovanovic is a secretary for relations with Serbian emigration and national organizations with the Patriotic movement Obraz.
Nenad M.Jovanovic was interviewed by
Sergey Stefanov
PRAVDA.Ru
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