Difficult Reconciliation - Kosovo

17 April 2001
The Ashkali are accused of collaborating with the Serbs during the ethnic cleansing, disposing of bodies after massacres. Today, following bomb attacks against them, Ashkali children go to school with a KFOR escort.

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[ROMANOBOY]

blöde frage die mussen ja sagen das es ihnen gut geht mann ist blind oder was ...fucking of NATO UMNIK und KFOR die haben uns dazu gebracht das wir von müll essen ...und die albaner luksus arbeit ales sollen die ferdamt sein...

[inpeaceallofus]

@SERBIANAK47 Yes,that's the way you think,that's why you lost Kosova.You stole the gold from Trepca to build Belgrade.I am against violence now,but what you can say to people who lost their members during the war?.

[dino1261]

You rip what you have sawn Serbs...You used violence ..now violence used against you....

[SERBIANAK47]

Just goes to show Kosovo was much safer for everyone under Serbian control. The day will come when Serbia takes back its borders and we will treat the Albanians the same way they have treated the minoreties in Kosovo. UBI ZAKOLJI DA SHIPTAR NE POSTOJI!!!

[dondinis]

the Portuguese Roma are very different that the balkan's roma..they are not roma..the are calé..more civilized and good behaviour...i grow up in a "block" with much "calé"...and they hate the romanian roma just arrived in Portugal...they are MUCH different than the roma from the eastern europe..i can assure you that..

[tomsokoli]

it is a fact. the roma did collaborate with the servs and did pay a well deserved price.

[vetiraq]

I spent 6 months in Kosovo in 2001 with the 10th Mountain Div. We were there for a peace keeping mission. Very nice people in an unfortunate situation. That whole area Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, ect impoverished.

[besnikalushi]

The Ashkalis and Egyptian ethnic groups are news to me. The so called Ashkali on the video is speaking Albanian; they seem not to have their own language. Language must be taken as the bases for recognition and classification of minorities. The west is trying to come with as many minorities as possible in Kosovo and interpret petty, criminal quarrels as political/ethnic.

[besnikalushi]

But to come back to Kosovo, yes Roma are a distinct group because they speak their unique language apart from Albanian or Serb. Language is one of the basis of the identity.Yes they can be classified a minority, and given that they have been abused if not persecuted by white Europeans they should be protected

[besnikalushi]

Roma are next, but not in an ethnic context but racial one. Roma (whatever their size) because of their darker skin traditionally have been seen by both the Albanians and Serbs as inferior. Something I condemn. The Roma history in a way resembles that of the Jews. Roma like the Jews are scattered across South West and Eastern Europe. From Portugal to Malta and from Greece to Czech Republic.