Kosovo: Ethnic Cleansing Virtually Ignored - European Roma Rights Center

Article image Today marks the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the ethnic cleansing of Roma, Ashkaelia, Egyptians and other persons regarded as “Gypsies” from Kosovo.
In the wake of the cessation of NATO action against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in June 1999 and the subsequent return of predominantly ethnic Albanians from abroad, ethnic Albanians violently expelled approximately four fifths of Kosovo's pre-1999 Romani population - estimated to have been around 120,000 - from their homes.

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