Article: YUGOSLAVIA: SAUDI AID WORKERS BULLDOZE BALKAN MONUMENTS.

(By Jolyon Naegele) The Saudi bulldozing of some of the most historically valuable architectural monuments in the western Kosova market town of Djakovica is merely the latest in a series of iconoclastic activities in the Balkans undertaken in the name of reconstruction assistance by Arab aid organizations. War- damaged historic buildings are not repaired, but rather demolished to make way for what the Arab donors consider to be more proper Islamic structures. The destruction is a further blow to Kosova's architectural heritage, following the destruction by Serbian forces and civilians in 1998 and 1999 of over 200 mosques and other Islamic structures--about one-third of ...

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