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PRISTINA -- Ethnic Albanian nationalists pulled down Saturday a monument to Dositej Obradovic, Serbia's enlightener, philosopher and writer, which had been located in front of the Pristina University chancellor's office.
Obradovic (1742-1811), author of a large number of works written in Serbian and other languages, established cultural and educational links between the Balkans and Europe, creating a basis for the Serbs' modern literature.
The ethnic Albanian nationalists pulled down the monument together with its base, leaving it to lie in the chancellor office's compound.
Ethnic Albanian extremists have also pulled down monuments raised in Pristina, chief city of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, in memory of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic, Serbia's 19th-century language reformer, and Petar Petrovic Njegos, Montnegro's 19th-century ruler, poet and bishop, since the deployment of the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR to the province.
They have also destroyed a monument to Emperor Dusan who ruled Serbia in the 13th century, in Prizren, and a monument in Gnjilane dedicated to Emperor Lazar who died in the battle of Kosovo in 1389 making it impossible for the Turkish army to continue its advance towards Europe.