THE CHANCELLERY OF
H.R.H. CROWN PRINCE Alexander II
OF YUGOSLAVIA
STATEMENT OF HRH CROWN PRINCE
ALEXANDER II ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF VIOLENCE ON KOSOVO AND METOHIA
Belgrade, 17 March 2005 – On the anniversary of the violence over
Serbs in Kosovo and Metohia HRH Crown Prince Alexander II gave the
following statement:
“With grief we are recalling the harsh actions of the pogrom on
Kosovo and Metohia, in which 19 people lost their lives, 11
Albanians and 8 Serbs. 800 houses and 35 Orthodox Churches and
Monasteries, that represent the treasury of our Middle Age culture,
were destroyed.
Not even today, a year after this unfortunate event, Serbs that
left their birth homes out of fear from the continuation of the
violence, do not dare to return to their hearths of their ancestors.
Their destiny is difficult and uncertain, and grief for the lost
native soil is huge.
Therefore, I am appealing to all the representatives of
International Organizations, to the representatives of the
Government and to all political parties, to do everything that is in
their power to overcome this hostility and to make life continue
from the spot where it was so cruelly stopped; to make all people
live in harmony and make them respect each other, regardless of
their religious or ethnic origins, and to enable them to live in
dignified conditions.
Today, when exactly at noon, the bells of all churches in the
country and in Diaspora will ring, prayers should be sent to the
Lord for this kind of catastrophe never to happen again and never to
be forgotten” – Crown Prince Alexander II pointed out.
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