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LA Times accused of anti-Serb bigotry
Nov 17, 2009

The Los Angeles Times demonized Serbian Patriarch Pavle, spiritual leader of the Balkans admired by more than 10 million Serbian Orthodox Christians, says American Serbian author Bill Dorich.

In his letter to the editor of the paper, Dorich says that the LA Times reduced the recently desist Serbian Patriarch Pavle “to a political opportunist” and of deliberately omitting “Albanian violence from this obituary but utilized the space to call this holy man a Serbian ‘nationalist’”.

“Did Carol Williams pen this disgusting obituary; it reeks of her brand of Serbophobia? Have you no shame?,” asks Dorich.

Before becoming Serbian Patriarch, Pavle was Bishop in Kosovo where Albanian Muslim boys would hurl rocks at him, lead herd of animals into Serbian churches in order to leave their excrement and once beat the Bishop.

In 2004, a massive and organized pogrom of ethnic Serbs was initiated by the ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo and Serbian churches were a particular targets for the Albanian Muslims.

LA Times obituary does not mention decades of anti-Serb pogroms in Kosovo but notes that Serbian leader Milosevic was cracking down on the ethnic Albanians.

“The Serbian Church eventually broke with its tradition of formal neutrality in 2000, openly urging the Serbian strongman to step down after the regimes humiliating defeat in 1999 following NATO bombing that ended Milosevic’s crackdown against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo,” writes the LA Times.

However, Dorich accuses the LA Times of “expert at muzzling tactics”.

“Your obituary ignores more than one million Orthodox Christians in Los Angeles including 150,000 Serbs in Southern California. What a repugnant misuse of freedom of the press,” writes Dorich in his letter.

“When Patriarch Pavle visited Los Angeles in 1992, the first visit of a Serbian Orthodox Patriarch to this country and this city you gave him 62 words on page 11. Your staff ignored every invitation to interview this spiritual leader and to attend our Sunday High Liturgy at St. Steven Serbian Cathedral in Alhambra,” notes Dorich.

There are no indications that he letter to the LA Times may be published.

Bill Dorich is an author of 5 books on Balkan history and music including his 1992 book, Kosovo. He received the Order of St. Sava, the highest recognition given to a layperson by the Holy Synod of Serbian Orthodox Bishops.

November 17, 2009
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