Orahovac

Serb priest's family comes under attack

ORAHOVAC -- Unknown persons late on Tuesday attacked the Parish House in the Serb part of the town of Orahovac in Kosovo.

The building is home to the family of the local Serb Orthodox priest.

BELGRADE - The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) and the Association of Journalists of Kosovo-Metohija (DNKiM) condemned on Friday the latest vandalism of the memorial to the missing journalists in KiM, and urged the international and Kosovo institutions to launch an investigation immediately.

“With the evidence collected, we are on the right track and will be able to identify the person who committed this criminal act,” Shpresa Bakija, the chief prosecutor in the town of Gjakova/Djakovica, told Balkan Insight.

The former manager at the Post and Telecommunications of Kosovo and prospective MP was gunned down in the early hours of June 15.

ORAHOVAC/VELIKA HOCA - Marko Djuric, director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), promised on Thursday that the state will assist citizens of Orahovac and Velika Hoca, the Serb enclaves in south-western KiM, and called on people of goodwill to invest efforts in the preservation of Serb enclaves in KiM.

The Kosovo Police and prosecution plan to interview two more witnesses who were present in the “Haja Petrol” restaurant in Rahovec/ Orahovac, where Pista was shot in the back several times during the early hours of Sunday morning.

Investigators still remain in the dark about hard information that could lead to the killer.

Police have offered 10,000 euro reward for information after Pista was shot in the back several times in the early hours of Sunday morning when he was leaving a restaurant in Rahovec/Orahovac.

The motive for the killing is so far unclear.

KLA graffiti appear on gate of Serb Orthodox monastery

GRAČANICA -- A graffiti reading "UCK" - Albanian for "KLA", the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army - appeared on the gate of the Visoki Dečani Monastery early on Friday.

This is according to a statement issued by the Eparchy of Raška and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC).

ORAHOVAC – Serbs are increasingly leaving Orahovac in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), with 15 Serb houses being sold in the upper part of the municipality in the past few days alone, and the Serbs there are very worried about it, according to the Frankfurt-based Serb Diaspora newspaper Vesti.

BELGRADE - The Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) has strongly condemned the last in a series of pressures on the Serb population, which this time took place in Orahovac in the form of intimidating messages on Serb houses.

ORAHOVAC - St. Cosmas and Damian's Monastery in Zociste near Orahovac in southern Kosovo-Metohija said Monday that an Albanian family has usurped monastery plots and that verbal provocations against the monks continue.