Two sides to war

on A recent visit to Serbia, I re-visited the infamous Skull Tower at nis, built with the skulls of 952 Serbians who made the ultimate sacrifice in defence of freedom in 1809.

This type of behaviour by the Turkish occupiers wasn’t uncommon as they sought to prevent their brutal empire from disintegrating.

While lighting a candle in remembrance, my thoughts turned to the great suffering of the Serbian people at the hands of Croatia’s nazi collaborators from 1941 to 1945 and of the terror regime of the puppet nazi Catholic Ustase state, whose stated goal was to ‘kill one third, convert one third and expel one third’ of the ethnic Serbians living under its regime.

I see that the Archbishop of Canterbury held a service to remember victims of one side in the conflict in the many-sided Yugoslav Civil War of 1991-1995, the Muslims of Srebrenica.

It seems the Archbishop has forgotten the many Serbian victims of earlier attacks from this enclave that helped to store up enmity and demands for revenge. He maintains the nato lie that the Serbian side was the sole villain in that war.

May God, in His infinite mercy, bestow a small measure of wisdom on the Archbishop to help him concern himself with his own business, including the seemingly terminal decline in the numbers of his own flock.

I hope, too, that he remembers the persecution of Christians in Eastern Europe who have given their lives so he and his generation can practise their faith freely.

He should also remember just how free he and his brethren are to hold exhaustive debates about the merits or otherwise of women bishops, free from the hatred of people who, like the extremist Isis, had no toleration of other people whose belief system differed in any way from their own.

JOVAN RADUSIN, address supplied.