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Father Sava Janjic is that rare breed, the righteous Serb.
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He consistently opposed Serb attacks in Kosovo, condemned the atrocities and continues to call for the ouster of Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic. But far from being a hero, Sava is a target. Simply being a Serb makes him an enemy of ethnic Albanian nationalists.
Being an Orthodox priest makes him a visible symbol of everything Serbian. So he lives with displaced monks and nuns, among a collection of magnificent Christian icons, in a 14th-century stone monastery five miles south of the provincial capital of Pristina.
British soldiers guard the front and rear gates.
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"The robe of the priest or monk is like a red cloth in front of a bull in Pristina," says the year-old Sava. "We cannot move anywhere without a KFOR escort."
The headlines in Kosovo today are not very different from those a year ago: murders, abductions, bombings.
In this round of atrocities, however, the victims are Serbs and Gypsies (many of whom threw in