Kosovo Serbs remember the victims of the 2004 pogrom
In the Kosovo monastery of Gracanica they served Parastos (Great Memorial Service), held a memorial art event and an art exhibition in honor of the nineteen Serbs killed and four thousand expelled by the Albanian pogromists.
Serbian media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The organizers of the commemorative events were the Rasko-Prizren Diocese of the SOC, the Gracanica Cultural Center and the Commonwealth of Relatives of the Victims of Kosovo and Metohija. After the Great Memorial Service, the organizers of the action laid white flowers at the memorial memorial to the victims, made in the form of the word MISSING (Lost), and all those present were offered an exhibition of the local “cultural colony” (artist community) “Autumn in Prizren 2019”.
The pogroms of the Serbs began on March 17, 2004, after the bodies of two Albanian boys, 9 and 12 years old, were discovered by the international occupation police contingent in the Ibar River (it was later established that they drowned, unable to cope with the fast current), whose deaths were caused by local provocateurs announced the Serbs.
The pogrom lasted two days, during which nineteen Serbs were killed, about four thousand became refugees, about 900 Serbian houses were burned, 39 churches and monasteries were destroyed, including 18 monuments of medieval Serbian architecture.
It should be noted that ethnic tensions between the dominant Albanian community and the Serb minority in Kosovo continue to this day.
In particular, recently a group of Albanians attacked Kosovo police officers of Serbian nationality from the predominantly Serb-populated North Mitrovica after they tried to stop the illegal construction of an embankment across the Ibar River.
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