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[Ivo Skoric]

More voices of intolerance are heard from Serbia today. The 
supremacist philosophy of the ancient Milosevic's regime seems to be 
hard to eradicate.

http://www.b92.net News from RTV B92 for 20 April 2004

Serbian Culture Minister Dragan Kojadinovic said yesterday he feared
workers from Albania and Kosovo, often employed by Greek firms as 
cheap labour, could "sabotage"  repair work on the 14th century 
monastery on Mount Athos, devastated by fire in early March.

For this reason, he said, Serbia will insist that only Orthodox
Christians take part in the reconstruction. It is "logical and 
natural" for people who believe in the Orthodox faith to work on 
rebuilding one of its places of worship, Kojadinovic told reporters 
in Zrenjanin.

But, more alarming is that the inability to resolve a conflict 
without the use of violence SPREADS to those who are there 
specifically to prevent violence. On Kosovo, which is nominally still 
part of Serbia, and in the middle of the UNMIK prison yard an ugly 
fire-fight errupted between American and Pakistani, Jordanian, and 
Moroccan prison guards - all in the plain view of Serbs and Albanians 
incarcerated there for their inability to peacefully coexist.

http://www.vjesnik.hr/html/2004/04/19/Clanak.asp?r=tem&c=1

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