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Albanian historians: ''Abbot of Visoki Decani to apologize for genocide of the Serbian state and people. The monastery is Albanian '' (KoSSev)

The Presidency of the Association of Kosovo Historians ‘Ali Hadri’, the Decani branch, harshly reacted to statements by, as they assessed, an anti-Albanian priest – Abbot Sava Janjic, who has been serving in the Albanian Orthodox monastery of Decani, a monastery usurped by Serbian occupiers – since the medieval period. They gave the statement last night for the Voice of America news program.

Abbot Sava Janjic warns of possible Serbs' migration from Kosovo caused by the idea of demarcation (TV Hram, RFE, KIM radio)

Abbot of the Visoki Decani monastery Sava Janjic told the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) TV Hram that due to some political solutions mentioned, it may happen that the Serbian people disappear from Kosovo, citing the idea of demarcation.

"Today we are facing a particularly great temptation, because with certain solutions that are sought on a political plan, it can happen that our people completely leave this region, or more than ever before in history," said Abbot Sava.

Father Sava Janjic: No one has right to renounce Kosovo (Radio kontakt plus)

Abbot of Serbian Orthodox Church Visoki Decani Monastery Sava Janjic said Kosovo is an area that no one has the right to renounce, while those who remain silent over that would carry a burden of a curse. Abbot Janjic made these remarks in Podgorica, at presentation of the Serbian Orthodox Church new Memorandum on Kosovo and Metohija.

Sava Janjic: To be silent when someone could force our people to leave KiM forever is, from a spiritual perspective, totally unforgivable (NIN, KoSSev)

We didn’t have an in-person conversation, instead we e-mailed each other. And yet, I think that my conversation with Sava Janjic, Abbot of Visoki Decani Monastery, as I’m conveying it to you, turned out just as it would had we sat across from each other. I wouldn’t have interrupted him, I wouldn’t have poked and prodded at him.

Father Sava Janjic on FB: Arrests of Serbs have no connection with Oliver Ivanovic’s murder (BETA)

Abbott of Visoki Decani Monastery, Father Sava Janjic said that the arrest of four Serbs in the north of Kosovo has no connection with the investigation of Oliver Ivanovic’s murder, BETA news agency reported.

Father Sava Janjic: Secret talks held on ethnic separation in Kosovo (NIN, TV N1, BETA)

Abbot of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Visoki Decani Monastery Father Sava Janjic said on Thursday he had “pretty reliable information from both local and foreign sources about talks on the division of Kosovo along ethnic lines, adding the negotiations were held in a narrow circle and in the greatest secrecy, Beta news agency reports. In an interview for Belgrade-based weekly magazine NIN, Father Sava said the negotiations on division along the ethnic lines included some “cosmetic elements” for protection of the remaining Serb population “which will stay on the ‘other side of the border’.

Sava Janjic: Normal life of Serb community hampered (Danas)

Introducing of an economic blockade by Pristina authorities for all goods from central Serbia has hit hard particularly Kosovo Serbs, Abbot of Visoki Decani Monastery, Father Sava Janjic said, Danas daily reports. “Regular supplies have been cut off, the existing agreements are not honored & the general situation’s been aggravated. Totally irresponsible,” Abbot Janjic wrote on Twitter.    

Abbot Janjic: It is concerning how people play with our lives (Radio KIM)

Abbot of Visoki Decani Monastery, Father Sava Janjic assessed that “proponents of Serbian territory division have not given up on their plan,” KIM Radio reports. Commenting on Saturday’s event and tense situation around Gazivode lake, Abbot Janjic wrote on social networks that “while thousands of Kosovo Albanians are protesting in Pristina against the land-swap idea, Thaci with his heavily armed police intrudes Gazivode, handcuffs Serbs, creating incident to divert attention.

Italian high-ranking delegation visited Visoki Decani monastery (KoSSev)

Italian Minister of Defence, Elisabetta Trenta, Italian Ambassador in Pristina, Piero Cristoforo Sardi, the Italian Chief of General Staff, General Claudio Graziano, the head of the Chief of Defence Office, General Francesco Figliuolo, KFOR commander, General Salvatore Cuoci and their associates visited Serbian Orthodox Church Visoki Decani monastery yesterday, KoSSev portal reported. The Abbot of Visoki Decani, Sava Janjic, expressed his gratitude to the Government, the army and the people of Italy for helping the Serbian people during the past 20 years of KFOR protection of a Serbian mediev