http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-39911420090527
Reuters May 27, 2009 Kosovo driving out non-Serb minorities - report By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA - Lack of will among Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership to ensure minority rights has driven out many Bosniaks, Turks, Roma and other non-Serb minorities, a report issued on Wednesday said. The Albanian majority declared independence in February last year, nine years after NATO carried out a 78-day bombing campaign to drive Serb forces out of Kosovo. Since then, ethnic divisions between two million Albanians and 120,000 Serbs who remained in the country have deepened, with 14,000 NATO peacekeepers and a 2,000-strong European Union mission overseeing a fragile peace. The report issued by Minority Rights Group International (MGI) said that Bosniaks, Croats, Gorani, Roma, Ashkali Egyptians, and Turks who make up 5 percent of the population are facing discrimination and many of them have left the country since then. "There is a lack of political will and substantive investment in effective implementation of minority rights among majority Albanians," it said. "Together with a bad economy, these conditions mean that many members of minority communities are now leaving the new Kosovo state altogether." The report said that the poor treatment of minorities was due to a perception that they had been allies of, or did little to oppose, the former Serb regime in the 1990s. .... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "serbia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/serbia -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
