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Thread #107019   Message #2215940
Posted By: Emma B
15-Dec-07 - 11:12 AM
Thread Name: Immigration to Belgium
Subject: RE: Immigration to Belgium
Riginslinger, could you please inform us of the details of this 'huge migration from Albania.'

According to Médecins Sans Frontières -
'New York/Paris, April 30, 1999 — The ongoing forced deportation of the Albanian population of Kosovo is planned, systematic, and constitutes a crime against humanity,' according to a report issued today by the international medical relief agency Doctors Without Borders

Fortunately many of these refugees like these
were enabled to return to their own country where, prior to the fighting, they constituted at least 90 percent of the total population.

It is my understanding that Kosovo's dwindling Serb minority, as in past elections, boycotted the vote, obeying calls from Serbia's leadership and.....

"The United States deeply regrets the decision of Kosovo Serbs, encouraged by the government of Serbia, not to participate in these elections. Kosovo's Serb community can only be disadvantaged by this decision," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack