Letter to Bradford Telegraph & Argus, July 28, 1999 (unpublished):

I have received the following message from Father Sava, an Orthodox Priest in Kosovo:

“After the month and a half of the NATO and UN-sponsored peace in Kosovo we have the following results:

130,000 Serbian refugees from Kosovo (2/3 of the population);

150 killed Serbs;

200 kidnapped Serbs;

40 damaged or destroyed churches.

“Serbs are persecuted, killed in flats, expelled from their homes, women are raped, farmers are slaughtered, Serbian and all non-Albanian homes are systematically torched, and all this in the presence of the most powerful force in the World.”

Details of many of the destroyed Christian buildings since KFOR took them under its “protection” may be seen on the Internet at http://www.decani.yunet.com/destruction.html.

As the Orthodox Bishop of Raska and Prizren has written to General Sir Michael Jackson, COMKFOR, Pristina: “Inhuman acts of looting, burning of homes are revolting indeed but even more revolting are destructions of the old religious and cultural monuments - churches, monasteries, mosques, teqies, because these are the houses of God and his people and belong to the world's cultural heritage and the Civilisation. Just imagine what darkness, inhumanity, anti-culture and barbarism stand behind these destructions of the religious and national monuments in Kosovo at the threshold of the greatest Christian Jubilee - the 2000th anniversary of Christianity.”

No doubt these attacks will be described as “revenge”. Yet many of the destroyed buildings were offered as refuges for persecuted Kosovars during the war. And the ethnic cleansing is also being directed at Roma (gypsies). If KFOR and the UN do not act, the hypocrisy of the so-called humanitarian war will be exposed for all to see. It is to be hoped that those who were so quick to help the Kosovars will now act to help the Serbs and Roma.