Word: kosovars
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...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, "The Roma refuse to move...
...removed from office, no evidence linking him to these crimes has ever been made public. A Serb war-crimes court last month brought charges against Anton Lekaj, a close associate of Haradinaj's, in the Roma wedding case, but not against Haradinaj himself. "This is Belgrade rubbish," the Kosovar Prime Minister told Time in Pristina late last month, just after wrapping up a budget meeting with senior U.N. officials. He denied any wrongdoing. "These are fabrications of the Milosevic regime, 'discovered' during the war and intended to discredit the K.L.A. I am very insulted. It is like asking...
...needed urgently to refocus its efforts on transferring authority to local leaders and ending its present mission: "We can no longer defer the most difficult issues to an indefinite future." There is no more difficult issue than Kosovo's independence - and no middle ground between the two communities' views. Kosovar Albanian leaders want results now. "Independence," the Kosovar Albanian Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi told Time, "is necessary for our development. Any [further] delay will bring more trouble." Kosovar Serbs say they don't trust Albanian leaders to protect their rights. "We have heard all the promises before," says Ilija Trajkovic...
...their claims are being processed. But even if these measures are implemented next year as promised, it's by no means certain that they will deter migrants. Sangatte itself is proof of how attractive passage to the U.K. remains. The Sangatte center opened in September 1999 to cope with Kosovar refugees from the Yugoslav war, who had been sleeping out in Calais parks and trying to stow away on cross-Channel ferries. Since then, the huge warehouse has become a staging post on the international smuggling route to the U.K. A staggering 60,000 people have passed through Sangatte over...
...Nowrojee are accompanied by four other newcomers to the Carr center, including Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, a Sudanese anthropologist and visiting professor of African and gender studies at Brown University; Robert Choo ’90, a former worker at Save the Children Vietnam and Myanmar; Vjosa Dobruna, a Kosovar pediatric neurologist and human rights activist; and Max Glaser, a former senior policy maker at the humanitarian relief organization Doctors Without Borders...