Serbs Are Real Victims, Priest Says

Blair, Kathy, Anglican Journal

The media got the story all wrong in Kosovo, says an Anglican priest who spent eight days in Serbia in June.

Far from the Serbs forcing ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo, the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Kosovo began decades ago, contends Rev. Bill Hutton.

Kosovo was the birthplace of Serb culture and the Orthodox church and home primarily to Serbs until the Albanians began forcing them out in 1943, he said. The Albanians wish to make Kosovo an Albanian province, he added.

"The Serbs don't know how to manipulate the media," said Mr. Hutton, an honorary assistant at St. Michael and All Angels in Winnipeg. (The church's Rev. Arthur Klassen says that Mr. Hutton …

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Publication information: Article title: Serbs Are Real Victims, Priest Says. Contributors: Blair, Kathy - Author. Magazine title: Anglican Journal. Volume: 125. Issue: 9 Publication date: November 1999. Page number: 10. © Anglican Church of Canada Feb 2009. COPYRIGHT 1999 Gale Group.

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