Category Archives: Kosovo
Mitrovica – the divided city
via www.forcedmigration.org A year or so ago I wrote an article on Mitrovica for an Italian magazine, if you read Italian, here is the link: http://nandosigona.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/una-citta-e-il-suo-doppio/
Filed under Kosovo, people & space
A lost generation (2010): the forced ‘return’ of German-born Roma children to Kosovo
A short documentary by Andrew Lampard features the case of two brothers, German-born Roma children, who are grappling with their new life in Kosovo after being deported from Germany. Thousands more like them are about to be deported to Europe’s … Continue reading
Filed under Kosovo, migration and mobility, politics
Lead-contaminated Roma camps in Kosovo shut down
The EC and USAID are finally closing down the Roma camps in Mitrovica and constructing alternative housing in the so-called Roma Mahalla, the neighborhood in Kosovo from which Roma families were expelled during the war, Human Rights Watch reports: http://www.hrw.org/node/94528?tr=y&auid=7496343
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Kosovo PM is head of human organ and arms ring – Council of Europe reports
Two-year inquiry accuses Albanian ‘mafia-like’ crime network of killing Serb prisoners for their kidneys… Read the article by Paul Lewis on The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/14/kosovo-prime-minister-llike-mafia-boss
Filed under Kosovo, politics, Uncategorized
