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Ottawa, July 28, 2007
You Excellency the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon:
Serious and most disturbing charges of bribery against the U.N. Envoy
Martti Ahtisaari to Kosovo became public. The American Council for Kosovo
has sent you a letter asking you to investigate the cahges and to give your
judgement.
Please let me know if you are going to respond to the American Council for
Kosovo letter and if you are going to investigate the charges against the
U.N. Envoy Martti Ahtissari, which say that Mr. Ahtisaari received bribe
from Albanian mafia to help the province's independence.
Here is the Letter by the American Council for Kosovo to Your Excellency :
http://www.savekosovo.org/documents/LettertoBanKimoon.pdf
http://www.savekosovo.org/default.asp?p=9&leader=0&sp=316
Looking forward to your urgent reply, I remain
Sincerely,
Boba Borojevic,
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Attached is speech by His Grace Amfilohije, the Metropolitan of Montenegro,
the Coastal lands and Skenderia and the Keeper of the Pec throne Shame and
Blame in the Face of Christian Europe
Your Holiness, Your Grace, dear brothers and sisters,
Our wise episkopos spoke wisely sometime during the month of June. We are
fighting, said he, a new Kosovo battle but this time we have no venerable
Knez [Prince] and no Holy Cross. The venerable Knez has been replaced by
irreligion. Irreligion, as known to people from times immemorial, lacks in
faith. The Holy Cross has been substituted for a "target", the suicidal
sign of the God Shiva, which I had come across in the deserted
Patrijarsijska street leading towards the Patriarchate of Pec last June. It
has also been replaced by an Albanian flag that is now, for the first time
since the Battle of Kosovo, flown from the house nearest to the
Patriarchate.
This was obviously meant to happen, justifiable probably by some historical
logic, or some deeper moral code, but also founded in the ways mysterious
even to God. Everything that has been going on in Kosovo since 1941 lead to
this which is happening today and that has not happened in 600 years. This
year's Vidovdan [the anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, 28 June] has
undoubtedly been the most dreadful of all such holidays for entire Serbian
nation both in Kosovo and Metohia and outside of it.
On the eve of the Vidovdan liturgy, which we served behind the altars of
our ancient archbishopric and patriarchal shrines in the Partiarchate of
Pec and with the blessing of His Holiness, we laid to rest the bodies of
Mileva Vujosevic, aged 50, shot dead with a bullet, her brains, in which I
stepped on entering her house, strewn and Marica Maric, a retarded girl,
who was raped in her poor abode in Belo Polje. We found her on a broken
couch, dead, disfigured. These two we buried just before Vidovdan and, as
we served the Vidovdan Liturgy in the Patriarchate of Pec, we could not
help feeling that this was really the most horrific Vidovdan over the past
600 years which affected all the Serbs and had a special effect on the
Serbian national entity in Kosovo. We felt that vladika [prince-bishop]
Rade's [P. P. Njegos] words "Kosovo is a huge court-house with Sodom raging
in its midst" really came to be prophetic.
Today Kosovo is, if that is of any consolation to us, really a "huge
court-house". It is the court in which our people are being tried, the
court where Shqiptars are being tried, the court where Europe and the
civilized world are also being tried. Today's verdict, being passed on the
world, was written in a gospel before Christ's Golgotha and its
continuation, I have a felling, happens to coincide with what is going on
in Kosovo and Metohia at present. What is happening here today concerns not
only us but is also relevant to the entire modern world, the Christian
civilization and is pertinent to the man at the end of the 20th and the
beginning of the 21st century. When speaking with European and American
dignitaries during their visits to the Patriarchate I have repeatedly said,
which may have been found objectionable by some, that what has been
occurring is foremost a disgrace and a shame of my people, one segment of
my people that is. This I have repeated and I repeat it again. It is also a
disgrace on the part of the Albanians, one honourable nation who is also a
God's people worthy of its place under the sun, deserving of time and space
in which to bear the fruit of its labour. What one fraction of this people
has been doing in the name of all is a disgrace and a shame on the face of
the entire nation.
The things taking place in Kosovo today as well as those which happened
during the bombardment are, as I kept repeating and am repeating it now,
disgraceful and the Christian Europe should feel ashamed. The Christian
Europe and American civilization brought upon themselves the blame which
they ought to be ashamed of. It is a disgrace that the 20th century is
coming to its close by bombs being dropped on a sinful but, as His Holiness
sometimes points out in His prayers sinful all around yet not without a
reason, nevertheless a Europe's ancient, Christian and honourable nation.
This is how Europe is commemorating the 2000 years of Christianity and this
is how it is entering the third millennium. This is also something most
tragic and absurd that every sensible person ought to stop over and think
about, regardless of what nation or religion one belongs to.
A part of this disgrace and shame has been presented, in word and picture,
in this publication called "Crucified Kosovo". The original list numbered
over fifty shrines but in the meantime additional twenty shrines and
monasteries, razed to the ground within the last fortnight, have been added
to it. The latest report announced that the Monastery of Zociste, in the
vicinity of Velika Hoca, has been levelled with the ground - an ancient
medieval monastery, place famous for its healing properties, of importance
not only for Orthodox Serbs but all inhabitants living around the
monastery. Over the past years more Muslims and Shqiptars than Serbs
frequented the Monastery of the Holy Healers, especially in times of evil
and deadly disease, the heinousness which in many ways is accountable for
the state we now find ourselves in. Today the monastery with its shrine and
the buildings surrounding it are completely razed to the ground. The same
destiny befell, and there is evidence of this, the Monastery of Holy King
Milutin, in Musutiste. Now that his name is mentioned I must reveal before
God what I heard has been happening in Kosovo. During bombardment a chief
of the police came to a priest to inform him of an impending destruction of
a mosque. The priest responded: "I beg you in God's name, don't destroy the
mosque because if you do you will also destroy our shrine. "The policeman
turned his head, went away and the mosque was pulled down. So how can
anyone be certain that those, who "awaited their five minutes", will spare
anyone's shrine? Be assured, and we who have been in Kosovo and Metohia
over the past few months can testify it to be true, that had it not been
for the presence of the international forces in Kosovo at this very moment
the Patriarchate of Pec, as well as Decani and Gracanica, too, would have
been reduced to rubble and turned into ashes. There would be no Serb left
in the area. This is the situation today. The booklet we have here is a
small insert, which tells about our current position.
That which has been left of the shrines, holy places and people is to be
found in reservations today and I am certain that even the Indian
reservations are in a much better state than those in Serbia, including the
enclaves in Kosovo and Metohia. The Patriarchate of Pec is a reservation of
a kind, all in bunkers, under the search lights, protected by tenks. In
spite of everything there were missiles launched at it the other day, as
you have heard, but fortunatelly did not fall on the shrine or the konak
[residential quarters]. Instead, they landed somewhere in between the two.
Decani is also in a reservation as is Gracanica and all other places where
our people live. Gora`devci, to mention some, is the only village on the
Metohia side which remained in the area. The reservations mentioned are
secured only temporarily, with a sword of Damocles hanging above them as it
were. A deep, existential fear has entered them as did hundreds of people,
out of some 30,000 from Pristina, who are now waiting to leave this hell.
We have a list with the names of some 200 kidnapped and murdered people
only in the Pec area but the number is not conclusive. There certainly are
tens of murdered people that are still unaccounted for, not the mention the
kidnapped from this region alone. There must be over 400 abducted persons
which are believed to be killed. Recently, a hole has been discovered in
the vicinity of Istok and in it 40 corpses were found, among which was the
body of Father Stefan from Budisavac monastery. Father Hariton is still
unaccounted for, and has been for quite some time. And, for as long as
Kosovo is in such a reservation Serbia, together with its leaders and the
entire population, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia itself, will also be
in one. Theirs will have a cul-de-sac. The circle around Serbian people is
getting increasingly smaller, with all diplomatic and political connections
and humanitarian links being severed, not to mention personal ties with the
international community. Those who, at this time, should be taking the
people out of this situation they are in for the first time in their
history are shunned by the entire world which does not wish to speak to
them; the fact obvious to anyone who has the eyes and the ears. Whether
those who do not want or do not wish to communicate are in the right or not
is another issue. But chosing the target conscieslly or unconscieslly as
their symbol, the symbol for something much more profound by which these
people have opted out for the road to suicide should this situation in our
country continue, is a historical and also a tragic fact. This means that
the people have lost, on a deeper level, their sense of dignity, the sense
for the future and the possibility for their survival and a come-back to
the company of mature nations of the world. Each person may carry within
themselves a suicidal drive which is everybody's torment and a joint
sorrow. But turning their illness, their suicidal tendencies into a living
style and a way of thinking and acting on behalf of an entire nation and
expecting them to accept it, equalls the failure in the understanding of
the human nature. One thing, obvious from all that has been happening in
Kosovo, is certain and must be said. There seem to be public, or maybe
secret, plan and aspiration on the part of the international community to
turn Kosovo into some kind of international protecorate. I do not believe I
will live long enough, God's willing that will be, to see Kosovo without
the presence of the international forces which usually, after having stayed
in another's land, another's country, another's home for too long, turn
into an occupying force. At present Kosovo is a protectorate. In a long run
it will become a NATO pact protectorate but also, by the looks of it, it is
being prepared to become an independent state which, one day, will be
incorporated into a Greater Albania. Whether this is the plan of the
European community I cannot fathom. Anyway, all that is taking place in
Kosovo and Metohia at this moment points out in that direction.
Also, whether the people will gather strenght to establish an unbiased and
a genuine relationship with the international community, to find new ways
out of this misery, the Kosovo straits, depends on God and God's intentions
but also on us all. Let this booklet about crusified Kosovo give us an
incentive that will show our joint responsibility, before God, before
history and before the modern world, that will help restore our dignity and
enable our come-back, with due respect of all human rights, to our ancient
lands, our ancient hearths.
May God grant it and let it happen.
Thank you.
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