The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights condemns with disgust the pogrom on Serbs which is going on in many places in Kosovo. Attacks against persons, dwellings and shrines cannot be considered as transgressions of irresponsible individuals but as a part of the implementation of a previously existing plan. Politicians and other leaders of the Albanian community must feel responsible for this new attempt to expel Serbs and other non-Albanians, whish is in stark contrast to their promises that minorities in Kosovo would be protected and to their appeals to Serbs to return thereto, which now sound utterly hypocritical.On the other hand, the Belgrade Centre regards as insidious and cowardly the attacks on Moslem temples in Belgrade and Nis and on the peaceful citizens of Serbia of Moslem faith and Albanian ethnicity. The Centre appeals to all political factors in Serbia, including the leaders of religious communities, to strongly condemn such deeds. The Centre holds responsible for these incidents all those who are trying to join the world campaign against Islam and who incompetently and irresponsibly reduce the problems in Kosovo to antagonisms between Christians and Moslems.
