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...peacekeepers in Kosovo fear a repeat of the violent riots of March 2004 aimed at minority Serbs and Roma. Kosovar Prime Minister Agim Ceku has warned that the region may declare independence unilaterally if the deadlock persists. "I don't expect any major unrest this summer", says Agron Bajrami, editor of Koha Ditore, a Pristina daily. But if there is no movement before expected elections this fall, "even the mainstream parties will be tempted to adopt extreme strategies." Then there could be more than just fireworks...
...Pristina, meanwhile, Agron Bajrami, editor of the daily Koha Ditore acknowledged that frustration is growing. "I don't expect any major unrest this summer, " he said. But if elections are held as expected in November, and there is still no clear movement on the question, "even the mainstream parties will be tempted to adopt extreme strategies." Then it won't just be fireworks on display...
...still not been evacuated. Refugees live "the life of animals," says Agron Qosa, who forages for food on the dumps near Trepca. "We were told this would be our settlement only for 40 days. Now, six years after that promise, we are without any fundamental support," Roma representative Elizabeta Bajrami says. Last week Kosovar Prime Minister Bajram Kosumi pledged $257,000 for the relocation of the Roma and for pollution control. The United Nations hopes the problem will be solved by the end of the summer but, says Gyorgy Kokuk, the spokesman for the U.N. mission for northern Kosovo...
Throughout Kosovo, the "cleansing" of the province's 1.8 million Albanians was swift and brutal. Arife Bajrami, 30, who fled to Kukes, Albania, from Izbice, in central Kosovo, said Serbs told residents to assemble at the local schoolyard. The Serbs demanded money from the women in exchange for their lives. "They made us walk for two hours to another village, then they marched us back again, just making fun of us," Bajrami said. "We had no food. I saw one old lady die on the road." As she trudged along the muddy road to Albania, local Serbs shouted, "Your land...
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