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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 returning 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...

Protests in Pristina PRISTINA -- More than a thousand Pristina residents protested last night over the murder of Tahir Zemaj and another two Kosovo Albanians. Tahir Zemaj, his son Enis and their cousin Hasan Zemaj were killed on Saturday in Pec. Zemaj’s murder is the last in a series of attacks on Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova’s associates, supporters and friends, report the Belgrade media explaining that Zemaj was a supporter of Rugova’s Democratic League of Kosovo. Zemaj was one of the key witnesses in the trial of five former KLA and Kosovo Protection Corps members, known as the Dukadjini group,...