I tried checking the URL <http://www.romnews.com> for verification and more info, but the site is being reconstructed and is effectively shut down tilll July 1. I also sent a request for more info to <Romnews at compuserve.com>. In particular, I don't know which border Roma refugees were crossing and in which direction. (Are they refugees from Kosovo or from Albania?) If I get additional info, I'll share it with these lists.
- In solidarity,
- Aaron
P.S. I corrected a couple of obvious errors in the original.
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Roma families killed by Albanians
Tirana/ ALBANIA ( RNN Correspondent ), Hamburg/ GERMANY ( RNN Agency ) June the 18th 1998
According to the reports of some correspondents from Macedonia, Yugoslavia, and Albania, the encroachments of the Albanian army against Roma refugees have remarkably increased.
As Nezded Mustava, town mayor of the Macedonian town Sutorel said, the Albanian army stopped many Roma families from crossing the border or even shot them while crossing the border. During the last census in Kosovo, which showed that 60 % of the population are Albanians, Roma were put under pressure from Albanians, before and during the election to pass themselves off as Albanians and not as Roma.
As to the information of the Roma National Congress there live 600.000 Roma in Kosovo, that are almost 20 % of the total population.
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