Terrorists aim at Serb churches

The monks think this was an action carried out by ethnic Albanian extremists who are dissatisfied with the monastery's reaction to the illegal felling of trees and the abuse of the monastery property, as well as with the U.N. Mission decision.

The statement says that the local U.N. administrator for the town of Pec Allen de Rois decided yesterday that the Italian firm, which has started works on water-supply system on the monastery property without the monastery approval, would urgently suspend the works, while ethnic Albanians were told to return the pine-wood, which they were cutting down without control, to the monastery.

This was the second mortar attack on the monastery over the last six months, which clearly shows that local ethnic Albanian authorities in Decani do not want to reconstruct beekeeper cooperatives or to construct a water tower, but to expel the monks from the area, it is stressed in the statement.