Kosovo and Metohija
Косово и Метохија — скраћено КиМ, званично Аутономна Покрајина Косово и Метохија — АПКиМ, понекад кратко Косово, или Космет (од Косово и Метохија), је аутономна покрајина у саставу Србије. Налази се у средишту Балканског полуострва, а чине је области Косово и Метохија. Граничи се на југоистоку са Северном Македонијом, на југозападу са Албанијом и на западу са Црном Гором. Према попису из 2024. било је 1.586.659 становника. Службени језици су српски и албански, а седиште администрације се налази у Приштини.
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" I am not leaving Kosovo alive or dead. This is Serbian people, Serbian land, we have done no harm to anyone. The communists are to blame for everything,” he told me the day before. He said the same to Bishop Artemije.
These are some of the last words of Father Chariton, a monk at the Monastery of St. Archangels near Prizren, who was kidnapped and brutally killed in June 1999, at the age of 39, as recounted to us by the former abbot of this holy site, Stefan.
Testimony of a Muslim Woman
The body of Father Chariton was found decapitated more than a year after his disappearance, and forensic reports indicate that his head had been severed with a sharp object, his spine broken, and several ribs and the bones of his left arm fractured. The body was found dressed in a monastic robe and sweater, and the tears in the clothing indicated that his abdomen had been slit open and he had been stabbed in the heart with a knife. The head was never recovered.
In the meantime, a chilling testimony emerged from a Muslim woman, who recounted seeing mujahideen “playing football with the priest’s head.”
The evidence and the pathologist’s report were handed over to investigators at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, but this crime was never prosecuted. Archimandrite Stefan, then the abbot of the Monastery of the Holy Archangels and today the abbot of the Zočište Monastery, recounts the tragic fate of Father Chariton and the events that took place in the imperial city during those days. The head was never found. The mujahideen took it as a trophy. Who knows if it will ever be discovered,” says Father Stefan.
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The event associated with the "Yellow House" represents one of the most severe and controversial episodes from the period following the end of the Kosovo and Metohija War in 1999. Essentially, it concerns allegations of organized human organ trafficking, with the victims being primarily kidnapped Serbs and other non-Albanians from Kosovo, as well as some disloyal Albanians, who were transferred to secret detention centers in northern Albania.
Background and Allegations
The case first gained international attention thanks to former chief prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal, Carla del Ponte, who in her 2008 book The Hunt: Me and the War Criminals expressed suspicions that hundreds of kidnapped civilians, who went missing during 1999–2000, were transferred from Kosovo to Albania, where their organs were allegedly removed for sale on the international black market.
Read more: Testimony of the crime: "Yellow House" and allegations of human organ trafficking
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Gjakova Article Count: 1
Đakovica is an urban settlement and the seat of the municipality of the same name in Serbia, located in the southwestern part of Kosovo and Metohija and belonging to the Peć Administrative District. According to the 2024 census, there were 41,809 inhabitants. It is located in the west of Metohija, between Peć and Prizren, while it is about 100 km from the Adriatic Sea coast.
Lipljan Article Count: 2
Lipljan is an urban settlement and the administrative center of the municipality of the same name in Serbia, located in the central part of Kosovo and Metohija, and it belongs to the Kosovo administrative district. According to the 2024 census, it had 13,092 inhabitants. It is situated 16 km south of Priština, at the confluence of the Janjevka River with the Sitnica River, and lies on the main route connecting Priština with Skopje and Prizren.
Lipljan in Kosovo and Metohija a site of suffering for Serbs
Peć Article Count: 1
Peć is an urban settlement and the administrative center of the municipality of the same name in Serbia, located in the western part of Kosovo and Metohija. It belongs to the Peć administrative district. According to the 2024 census, it had 41,171 inhabitants.
The town is situated on the Peć Bistrica River, a tributary of the White Drin, near the Prokletije mountains to the east. The Rugova Gorge, one of the longest and deepest gorges in Europe, is located about three kilometers from the city of Peć.
The city is 250 km north of Tirana, 150 km northwest of Skopje, and 280 km from Podgorica.
In the Middle Ages, the city was the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church from the 13th century. The Peć Patriarchate Monastery is part of UNESCO's World Heritage site of Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
Camps Article Count: 1
Camps in which Serbs suffered
First world war Article Count: 0
Camps in the First World War where Serbs suffered
Kosovo Field Article Count: 1
The Municipality of Kosovo Polje is a municipality in the Republic of Serbia, located in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, and is part of the Kosovo Administrative District.
The municipality covers an area of 89 km².
This municipality, together with the municipalities of Obilić and Novo Brdo, was established on July 2, 1988, from settlements that were previously part of the then Municipality of Priština (Official Gazette of the SAP of Kosovo, no. 18/88).
Orahovac Article Count: 1
Orahovac is an urban settlement and the administrative center of the municipality of the same name in Serbia, located in the southwestern part of Kosovo and Metohija, and belonging to the Prizren Administrative District. According to the 2024 census, it had a population of 13,642.
The settlement's territory lies within the cadastral municipality of Orahovac, covering an area of 4,894 hectares.
Gnjilane Article Count: 1
Gjilan (Albanian: Gjilan or Gjilani) is an urban settlement and the administrative center of the municipality of the same name in Serbia, located in the southeastern part of Kosovo and Metohija. It is the seat of the Kosovo Pomoravlje administrative district. According to the 2024 census, it had a population of 53,279. Gjilan is situated in the Kosovo Pomoravlje region and is connected to Pristina, Uroševac, Kosovo Kamenica, Preševo, and Bujanovac.
Prizren Article Count: 1
Prizren is an urban settlement and the administrative center of the municipality of the same name in Serbia, located in the southern part of Kosovo and Metohija, and belongs to the Prizren administrative district. According to the 2024 census, it had 76,850 inhabitants. It is one of the most important cities of the medieval Serbian state and cultural heritage of Serbia. The city is situated at the foothills of the Šar Mountains, near the borders with Albania and North Macedonia.
Ribe Article Count: 1
The village of Ribe (Ribe) is a small, remote mountain settlement located in the Mat district in northern Albania, not far from the town of Burrel. This village gained international, and extremely tragic, notoriety after the Kosovo war in 1999, as it was allegedly the site of the so-called "Yellow House."