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From: J P Maher
LETTERS JANUARY 20, 2009, 4:11 P.M. ET
An Anti-Serbian Vandetta
Morton Abramowitz and Daniel Serwer call for European countries to join
Washington in once again casting Serbia as the source of all problems in the
region ("Balkan Troubles," State of the Union, Jan. 6). One would think that,
in light of the failure of the very anti-Serbian policies Messrs. Abramowitz
and Serwer have championed, they would refrain for calling for more of the same.
Perhaps unconsciously, the authors could not fail to admit that the question of
my home province of Kosovo and Metohija remains unresolved. It is quite clear
even to them that all the recognition on the part of the U.S. and EU countries
means nothing if Serbia refuses to recognize that unilaterally and
illegitimately proclaimed independence.
Messrs. Abramowitz and Serwer admit that Kosovo "barely functions" despite the
pretense of independent statehood by its ethnic Albanian administration
dominated by the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). As they note,
two-thirds of the world's countries have refused to recognize this blatantly
illegal separatist claim. Even many of the European countries duped by
Washington into granting recognition clearly have come to regret their
decision, as evidenced by their vote in favor of a U.N. General Assembly
resolution in September to refer the Kosovo case to the International Court of
Justice. In opposing the resolution, Washington could muster the support only
of Albania, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Nauru and Micronesia.
Instead of calling for a renewal of the anti-Serbian vendetta that has
characterized Western policy in recent years, Messrs. Abramowitz and Serwer
should look into the real state of affairs in Kosovo. For example, the KLA
administration continues to stonewall efforts by Serbian prosecutors and
organizations like Human Rights Watch to find out what happened to some 300
members of my flock who were kidnapped. According to former Hague prosecutor
Carla Del Ponte (hardly a Serbophile), they had their organs removed for the
illegal transplant trade and were later killed. Or perhaps a few livers and
kidneys are not worthy of notice when the victims are only Serbs.
Bishop Artemije
Bishop of Ras and Prizren
Gracanica Monastery
Kosovo and Metohija, Serbia
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