Hundreds of thousands of people fled Yugoslavia and then Kosovo between 1991 and 1999 and sought asylum in Western Europe. Many of these were Roma and each person brought with them stories of fear and violence. Voluntary return programmes have been on going, but today, now that fighting has finished, forcible return programmes of Roma and other groups are being concluded and one between Germany and Serbia and Montenegro has already begun.
I was member of the Council Of Europe fact-finding mission to Serbia and Montenegro in february this year.
Verder lezen/Read more Roma returnees to Serbia and Montenegro: whose responsibility?.
