UNHCR / OSCE – Overview of the Situation of Ethnic Minorities in Kosovo, 11/03/1999.
This brief overview, released on 3 November, highlights the latest developments and trends in the minority 1 protection area that have emerged since September 1999.
The overall situation of ethnic minorities in Kosovo remains precarious. While the crime statistics released by the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) in mid-October indicate a decline in the overall number of violent incidents as far as minorities are concerned, this may be due in part to the fact that there has been a significant decrease in the overall non-Albanian population over the past four months. Informed observers agree that there is a climate of violence and impunity, as well as widespread discrimination, harassment and intimidation directed against non-Albanians. The combination of security concerns, restricted movement, lack of access to public services (especially education, medical/health care and pensions) are the determining factors in the departure of Serbs, primarily, and other non-Albanian groups from Kosovo to date. The widespread disrespect for human rights has increasingly also affected moderate Albanians and those who are openly critical of the current violent environment.
http://www.osce.org/kosovo/publications/ethnic_minorities/minorities3.htm

THE CROATS FROM KOSOVO HEADING FOR LIKA
© AIM, 11/11/1999.
[AIM is an independent news network of former Yugoslavia’s press]

One of the latest acts of the tragedy called "human resettlement" happened on Sunday, October 31, the day before the Memorial Day. On that day 293 Croats from Letnica, a place in Kosovo where Croats had been living for the last seven hundred years, have arrived to Croatia to Zagreb Airport Pleso. All they brought with them were some necessities, which they could carry on the plane, and those better off had with them their savings and the figure of Our Lady of Letnica. According to the Croatian papers, they felt awful because they could not take with them the Church of the Lady of Letnica. Apart from being pathetic, that statement also had its political significance. Namely, it clearly showed that the Kosovo Croats did not intend to go back to Kosovo, i.e. that seven hundred years were crossed out forever.
This incident, however is kept somewhat secret, especially the reasons for the resettlement – the harassment by the Albanian population. There are some indications that these people will be moved in the parts of Croatia previously settled with Serbian population.
See the article here.

PRESS STATEMENT OF THE SERB NATIONAL COUNCIL OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA, Belgrade, 11/10/1999.
An article by the Serb National Council of Kosovo and Metohije challenges the official statistics on number of killed and kidnapped people in Kosovo in the post-bombing period. The publishing of incorrect and incomplete information about the suffering of the civil population after the KFOR deployment in Kosovo and the manipulation with the public opinion is continued in the same style as during the NATO intervention when excessive and random figures of killed Albanians were mentioned, which so far has not been documented by forensic investigation. Besides, it is usually mentioned that the number of post war crimes has decreased although this is very much the consequence of the exodus and regrouping of the non-Albanian population, which now lives and survives only in ethnically compact areas. There are links to the lists of the names of killed and kidnapped persons at the end of the article.
See the article here.

Destruction of Kosovo's People and Heritage Under NATO's Watch, Report prepared by the Berkeley Kolo of Serbian-American Sisters, Berkeley, CA, March 2000.
http://www.geocities.com/~voice-stgeorge/Destruction_of_Kosovo/kosovoweb.html

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