Posted on 01/07/2003 6:41:19 PM PST by vooch
In the spring of 2002 photojournalist Lucian Read documented a group of Roma refugees from the war in Kosovo who had been forced to take up residence in the ruins of a retirement home on the outskirts of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Driven from their homes in 1999 by the Albanian majority and the KLA (under the protection of NATO) this group and some 150,000 other Kosovar Gypsies now live in tenuous exile across the Balkans and Western Europe. Without documentation or help, Kosovo’s Roma are now forced to survive as best they can on the edge of the crippled societies of the former Yugoslavia. Three years after the end of the fighting, most are still far from home, with little hope of returning.
Poster's Note this is a lead it to a moving photo essay, could some tech-friendly freepers please post some of the photos for our fellow FR's ? thks
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