The Mahalla, photo by Andrew Testa for The New York Time

Statement of the Kosovo Roma Diaspora on the occasion of the „International Roundtable on Roma, Ashakli and Egyptians of Kosovo: Challenges and Prospects of Sustainable Integration” « Romano Them: “(…) this conference, which is taking place today at the headquarters of the OSCE in Vienna, has no other purpose than to set the basis for the forthcoming forced return of several ten thousand Roma refugees to Kosovo.

The Roma

In June 1999, the international community, including KFOR and the OSCE, did nothing to prevent the violent expulsion of ten thousands of Roma from their homes in Kosovo and the destruction of their properties.

In ten years, the international community did hardly anything to allow the return of the internally displaced Roma in Kosovo, leaving people knowingly in situations which are harmful to their lives (see the situation of the internally displaced in Kosovska Mitrovica).”

(Via Romano Them.)