Government expected to intervene in Banjska Monastery to sanction damage from Sunday's attack

Culture Minister Hajrula Ceku has announced that the government is awaiting the creation of the situation to assess the damage caused during Sunday's attack by a Serb criminal group at the Banjska Monastery. He said the assessment would be made by cultural heritage authorities. “We are awaiting the creation of [...]
He said the assessment would be made by cultural heritage authorities.
“We are awaiting the creation of the necessary conditions for our professional teams from the authorities of cultural heritage to do the assessment of the damages, and after that we will take all necessary actions in co-operation with all relevant parties for professional interventions aimed at sanctioning physical damage to this Manastir”, he has said.
Ceku said they have the means needed to carry out the sanctions, while adding that the damage is not small in the monastery's physical structure.
From what we've seen, terrorists have caused minor attacks on the physical structure of this monastery. They strongly believe that the purpose of members of this group and their ambassadors has been to damage interethnic and religious relations in Kosovo except for physical injury. The Ministry of Culture already has the budget code and the necessary financial means for sanitary interventions and Banjska Monasterys, in addition to the restorations we have performed this year in Orthodox churches in Kosovo”, the minister said.
Serbia's state-sponsored terrorist sulmi except that a devout Kosovo police had a dangerous and harmful dimension -- that of using a cultural and religious heritage asset for criminal purposes. The Orthodox Monastery in the village of Banjska of Zvecan is the monument of cultural heritage protected by Kosovo laws was used as a shelter by the terrorist group, including their” weapons, he said.












