The Orthodox cemetery in Djakovica was cleaned, a large number of monuments were destroyed again

The temporary body of the Municipality of Djakovica, with the support of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, today ended a multi-day operation of cleaning and arranging the Orthodox city cemetery in the Djakovica settlement Piskoti. During a clean-up, it was noticeable that a large number of monuments and tombs were damaged or destroyed.

As announced on the Facebook page "Native Association of Djakovica", the cemetery, which was in extremely bad condition, overgrown with plants and weeds, was thoroughly cleaned.

"Unfortunately, during this arrangement as well as in previous years, it is noticeable that a large number of monuments and tombs were damaged or destroyed, which testifies to the absence of all civilizational norms among the local Albanian community, since Djakovica has been considered a mono-ethnic city since June 1999 where in 23 years of persecution, only one person of Serbian nationality (Dragica Gasic) has returned, and who herself is going through the most terrible Golgotha in that city, without basic human and civil rights," the announcement states.

It is added that the state of the Orthodox cemetery in Djakovica, where the Knez Lazar church and chapel were demolished and burned in 1999, is perhaps "the most credible illustration of the post-war reality in Kosovo and Metohija".

"We remind you that there are Albanian cemeteries in areas where the Serbs make up the majority of the population, as is the case in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, without a single damaged or demolished monument or religious object," it states.

The Provisional Authority of the Municipality of Djakovica and the Office for Kosovo and Metohija recently, also in Djakovica, cleaned and arranged the Orthodox cemetery in the village of Donji Petrovac - Ljugbunar, which was also largely desecrated, with destroyed monuments and destroyed tombs.

"We hereby appeal to end at least the war against the dead, which is generated by the politics of the current interim Pristina government," the announcement states.