IN THE KOSOVO MORE THAN 100 ORTHODOXE CHURCHES WERE DAMAGED DESTROYED
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BELGRADE, 6 March.  (RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent Sergej
Rjabikin).  The Albanian extremists tore off after the chute of the
international peace forces (KFOR) in June 1999 and to today in the
Kosovo more than 100 orthodoxe churches and monasteries or damaged,
were reported opposite the RIA " Nowosti " from the Patriarchie of the
Serbian ones orthodoxen church in Belgrade.

It does not concern individual acts of terrorism, but around a regular
destruction of the Serbian culture in the Yugoslav region, in which
there were more than 1,400 orthodoxe churches and monasteries.

The speaker of the Serbian ones orthodoxen church referred also to the
facts that the peacemakers prevented still not once the destruction of
the orthodoxen holy places or arrested authors.  In the meantime
requires the 1244.  Resolution of the UN security council KFOR up to
protect also the Sakralbauten.

Patriarch of Serbia Pavle and Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica
transmitted a writing at UNESCO director Koichiro Matsuura on 2 March,
in which they request this organization to protect the Serbian
orthodoxen holy places in the Kosovo.  Belgrade is convinced that the
function to protect and obtain the culture values in the Kosovo, only
with international assistance to be solve can, particularly it itself
not local articles, but around monuments concerns, which represent " a
substantial part of the cultural heritage of Europe ".