Orthodox bump!
The article is full of garbage -- from incorrect spelling of the town (Malainitsa) or region (Tymok), to grammatical errors/omissions - probably dleiberate -- (i.e. serbian with a lowercase "s"), to "logic" one would expect from a two-year old (although she admits the Vlachs -- the Romanian minority there -- may have violated some regulations, the only reason they are being punished is because they are a minority with no rights).
The contextual background Ms Soros leaves out of this insignificant but overblown event goes back to December 6, 2004, when a Romanian archbishop (episkop) came to Malajnica (Malaynitsa), Serbia, unannounced, without even a mayor or the local Serbian bishop knowing, to bless the bell of a new Romanian Orthodox church. The church building itself was built over an existing private home (remodeling) without a permission from building authorities as to the possible violations of any building codes or fire hazards, noise pollution, and so on.
The archbishop used this occasion for separatist and political purposes, with uncalled-for separatist and nationalist message -- an obvious provocation.
The charges made by the author are unsubstantiated by a single verifiable fact or court document. There are almost three dozen national minorities who had no problems being there for the last few hundred years. No one ever tried to push them out, or change their culture. Serbia's laws permit national minority rights and even go farther than most western countries in providing support for them.
Unlike the West (which is supposedly the standard for all to emulate), in Serbia In Serbia, or example, ethnic languages are official languages in addition to Serbian in all areas where a certain minority represents local majority. In Serbia the government that pays for all the ethnic-language schools and programs, newspapers, etc. In the West, one is allowed to observe cultural heritage through schools and cultural events -- on private funds. No American taxpayer will pay for some Romanian child in Chicago to attend Romanian-language schools, or for a Romanian-language newspapers and radio! neither will America give equal status to a foreing language other than English. Yet in Serbia the fifth column minorities have come to expect such benefits from Serbian taxpayers because of their "right" to live in Serbia!
Let me make myself clear about this God-given right to life: there isn't one! Not one of us has a right to life. We have all been condemned to death, no matter how good, how rich, how pretty or how stupid. Life is one unpredictable death row. And without life, all other rights become meaningless.
Rights come with responsibilities. The two go hand-in-hand. The modern world, mostly in America, has redefined this as a unilateral affair, without corresponding responsibilities. So, we have come to expect something that is not ours by nature or by God to expect. We take it for granted rather than to cherish as something that was loaned. As a loan, we are expected to care for it, and pay it back. But the me-me-me cretinism sees it as a gift without any payback necessary.
So this is yet another "I'm the victim" cry of a people who enjoyed life among Serbs without disturbance for hundreds of years and have only now decided that, somehow, the provisions of the European Union apply to Mayevitsa -- but not to Kosovo!
By none other than another Soros humanoid.