KMDLNJ voices concern over cemetery situation in Pristina

“The maintenance and care of Orthodox and Christian cemetery (Catholic) is mainly political nature and care for them increase only when they are violated or vandalised and largely, without completing investigations of political and ethnic nature. Or, after international interventions, they are regulated to say that even the location for new religious communities is shared, says KMDLNJ's letter to Pristina chairman.

According to the KMDLNJ, the state of the cemetery where Islamic believers are buried or slaughtered is catastrophic, shameful and beneath all dignity.

This is especially true in the Arberia Quarter, where, because of the construction or atmospheric resources, there were grave damage and their collapse”, it is said on paper.

KMDLNj is aware that the city of Pristina, due to overcrowding and narrowing land space, has difficulty securing a new location for the cemetery of Islam and that it would comply with required infrastructure standards. The issue has expanded the location of the existing cemetery site in the Arberia district, which does not meet even the minimum conditions for dignified burial and dignified treatment of these cemetery. This environmental degradation in the location where Muslim Muslims are located is especially highlighted during the winter and in the times of atmospheric resources, meaning a period of a six-month period.

If you do an inspection of the cemetery or attend the funeral ceremony at this time, you must equip yourself with rubber boots up to your knees and have your conditioned to carry 6-8kg of mud caught for boots. It is under any dignity and immorality to bury the dead in those conditions, even as it is painful and dignified for burial in the same conditions”, says KMDLNJ's letter.

Islamic faith graves in the Arberia neighbourhood, according to the KMDLNJ, especially in winter time resemble a landscape from documentaries for survival in extreme conditions.

If these documentaries are fought in the living sand, the cemetery in Arberia district is fought by living mud. These cemeteries, but others are under the responsibility of the municipality you lead, whose citizens are regular taxpayers in the hope that you will provide good services, in accordance with the taxes you provide”, it says on paper.

If the Pristina municipality does not have the capacity to maintain the cemetery, then it should seek an additional budget from the Kosovo government. The Pristina municipality should take as an example the municipality of Gjakova or Pec how the cemetery should be maintained.

According to KMLDNJ, the municipality should take all actions to end this degradation of the cemetery space, creating green spaces, planting new seedlings, and paving paths throughout this space if it is to eliminate mud, uncleanness, and other degrading phenomena.

The Pristina municipality holds responsibility for these cemeteryes by creating conditions for dignified treatment and not insulting those buried, family, friends and funeral participants to death.

If you want to know the truth, it's easy for you to attend a funeral but not the part where the V is buried. IPs or those that have previously provided location for the family cemetery and which themselves maintains”.