Persecution of Serbs

BIRN’s documentary ‘The Unidentified’, about the men responsible for some of the most brutal atrocities of the Kosovo war in 1999, had its Hungarian premiere at the Budapest International Documentary Festival.

From August 1941 to April 1945, hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Romas, as well as anti-fascists of many nationalities, were murdered at the death camp known as Jasenovac.

BELGRADE - An initiative to renovate the buildings of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate of Pec has been launched at a recent meeting of Norwegian Ambassador to Serbia Arne Sannes Bjornstad and the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo Metohija Marko Djuric.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Thursday received the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Efraim Zuroff, Archbishop John of Pakrac and Slavonia of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) and Ruta Vaganaite, a Lithuanian writer and author of the book Our People.

BELGRADE - It is still unknown who set on fire the unfinished Temple of Christ the Savior in downtown Pristina. Office for KiM once again warns of the danger of growing Albanian extremism and chauvinism in the southern Serbian province.

Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the ecumenical leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, will visit the concentration camp at Jasenovac that was run by Croatia’s Nazi-allied WWII-era regime.

PARIS - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric, opened an exhibition titled "Kosovo-Metohija - 10 steps" at the Serbian Cultural Centre in Paris Tuesday, noting it best reflected the nature and the value of the Serbian heritage in Kosovo-Metohija.

THE HAGUE - David Schwendiman of the United States has been appointed chief prosecutor of a Hague-based special court that will investigate war crimes committed during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo.

The court is looking at atrocities committed against Serbs by the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army during and after the conflict, Reuters reported.

BIRN’s film The Unidentified, which investigates the Serbian commanders responsible for brutal attacks during the Kosovo war, was screened at the BELDOCS documentary festival.

The Unidentified, which names the Serbian officers who ordered attacks on Kosovo villages around the town of Pec/Peja in 1999 and those involved in the cover-up operation to hide the victims' bodies, was awarded the best short documentary prize at the South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles on Thursday.