Orthodox Christians remain a persecuted religious minority in Kosovo
Orthodox Christians from Kosovo are regularly targeted, harassed and sometimes even murdered. The situation in this partly independent country remains extremely complex due to the bloody wars that took place there during the 1990's and led to the dislocation of Yugoslavia.
Kosovo, which has been a Serbian territory for centuries, is mainly inhabited by Muslim Albanians. The relations between Serbian and Albanian population remain very tense. With total impunity and general indifference from Western countries and the European Union, the authorities of Kosovo expelled two-thirds of the indigenous Serb population of the Serbian province of Kosmet since 1999.
This was all orchestrated by Hashim Thaci, the man who set up the Kosovo Army or UCK, an Albanian-speaking terrorist organisation. Thus the 40,000 Serbs in Pristina were almost entirely driven from the city by anti-Christian massacres perpetrated by the Albanian-speaking Muslim nationalists.
The Christian Serbian population doesn’t feel safe in this region. Buses transporting Serbs are regularly attacked with stones, and Serbian Orthodox cemeteries and churches are often desecrated.
Source: atlantico.fr
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