Rome / ITALY ( RNN Correspondent ) July the 21st, 1999
Yesterday, 20 jul 1999, arrived in the port of Brindisi (southern Italy) a boat with 541 Roma from Kosovo (208 children, 149 men and 184 women). The boat had leaved the Montenegro coast and reached the italian port accompanied by the italian military forces. The day before had arrived other 762 roma refugees from Kosovo.
The italian government decided yesterday that because of the end of the "official conflict" in Kosovo no more refugees will be accepted in Italy, and all those who in theese days reached the italian soil from Kosovo must be councidered as illegal immigrants to be expelled back in their Country of origin.
All the roma in Brindisi and Bari described the serious mistreatments that they had suffered in Kosovo: their houses have been burnt, their lives menaced. Once more the roma people is damaged from war and not recognized as victim of the war from the civilized world.
Roberto Cherubini for RNN
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