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OBSERVER (UK)
LETTERS
Sunday February 17 2008
My life in a Kosovo Serb enclave
I am a Kosovo Serb who has spent the prime of my life living in an enclave
('Serbs fear renewed bloodshed in Kosovo', World, last week). It has been
difficult. Also, it has not been very popular to report about people such as
us. It is only now that most of your papers briefly mention that some
120,000 people live a life that the Jewish community lived at the end of the
1930s.
My old home is just 40km away from the enclave, but still I cannot go and
visit what was left of it after it was burnt down by Albanians in 1999. If I
want to become a mother, there is nowhere to give birth, I have to travel
outside of the enclave, some 150km to Kosovska Mitrovica. Last night, a
house of a Kosovo Serb was burnt down in the city of Pec, in western Kosovo.
And it won't stop. What I cannot understand is why peace-loving and
forward-looking citizens of Europe do not raise their voices against this
major injustice.
Mila Balasevic
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