KOSOVO. Mitrovica. 17th May 2004..A man walks through the remains of the Roma neighborhood in Southern Mitrovica. Destroyed five years ago by Albanian mobs in apparent revenge for supposed Roma collaboration with Serb forces during the war. The population of this neighborhood have not returned to their homes. In March 2004 a similar incident took place in the nearby town of Vucitern, where an Albanian mob expelled and burnt the homes of the three hundred or so Roma inhabitants of the...
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KOSOVO. Mitrovica. 17th May 2004..A man walks through the remains of the Roma neighborhood in Southern Mitrovica. Destroyed five years ago by Albanian mobs in apparent revenge for supposed Roma collaboration with Serb forces during the war. The population of this neighborhood have not returned to their homes. In March 2004 a similar incident took place in the nearby town of Vucitern, where an Albanian mob expelled and burnt the homes of the three hundred or so Roma inhabitants of the town..©Andrew Testa for the New York Times..FOR NICHOLAS WOOD'S LETTER FROM KOSOVO
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