With this act, Bishop Artemije entered history as the first person in the state of Serbia to express his readiness to bring NATO to justice, and the first person to raise his voice in action against those who had the obligation and task to preserve the Serbian people, holy places and property on Kosovo and Metohija and they did not do it.

In the lawsuit, he recalled that from June 12, 1999, when KFOR forces arrived in Kosovo, until March 19, 2004, a significant number of churches and religious institutions of the Serbian Orthodox Church were damaged and destroyed, and numerous movable property was also damaged which also includes church-artistic treasures such as medieval iconostasis and frescoes.

The lawsuit notes that the same is a precedent in international law because the church has never appeared as a plaintiff in the name of protecting its rights and the rights of its believers and that it is based on evidence from the reports of the State Department, the United Nations, and international organizations for the protection human rights…

Why these four NATO countries?

Because each of these countries had one zone of responsibility in Kosovo and Metohija, and in 1999 alone, from June 12 to December 31, about eighty churches were destroyed, and the most in the Italian zone of responsibility, as many as 26, in the sector which were provided by 24 German soldiers and seven French soldiers. The lawsuit was not filed against the USA for the simple reason that the court in Strasbourg has exclusive jurisdiction over European countries.

In the lawsuit against those four countries, before the International Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the diocese of Raška-Prizren was supported by a team of numerous world-class lawyers from abroad who had experience in such disputes, but not the state of Serbia and some bishops from the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Moreover, to make the irony even greater, the Italian KFOR brigade in Kosovo and Metohija was awarded the Order of Saint Sava "for its engagement in the protection of Orthodox holy places (?!?!)" and it was precisely in its area of responsibility that the most Orthodox holy places perished.

The lawsuit was opposed by the president and the government of Serbia as well. When on January 13, 2005, Bishop Artemije refused to withdraw the lawsuit against these NATO member countries, his golgotha and the contrived process against him began, to the shame of the state, some bishops, and the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Woven into his works, including this one, into the essential struggle for Kosovo and Metohija, the people and the saints, the bishop remains immortal. Whatever history the traitors, ecumenists, and NATO-lovers want to write, this move of his is an indelible mark.