Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Serbs Set for Kosovo Return

Trovate di seguito un rapporto dell'Institute for Wor and Peace Reporting
del 2 maggio 2000 (
http://www.iwpr.net
), secondo il quale il Serbian
National Council (SNV), l'organizzazione del serbi del Kosovo, sta
approntando un piano per il ritorno di 20.000 serbi dal sud della Serbia in
Kosovo. Si tratta di una parte di quei serbi fuggiti dal Kosovo l'estate
scorso in seguito al ritiro delle truppe serbe e all'entrata della KFOR
nella provincia jugoslava.
Molti serbi, che ora vivono in condizioni drammatiche nelle cittadine del
sud della Serbia, stanno esprimendo in numero sempre crescente la volonta'
di ritornare in Kosovo. Il piano in questione prevede quindi il ritorno
nella zona di Mitrovica, dove esiste ancora una consistente comunita' serba.
SNV ha aperto uffici a Kraljevo e Kragujevac, dove vivono molti profughi
serbi dal Kosovo, per convicere i serbi kosovari a tornare nella provincia.
UNHCR si e' dichiarata indisponibile a supportare un piano del genere, dal
momento che non vi sarebbero le condizioni politiche e di sicurezza. Il
Dipartimento di Stato US vedrebbe invece con favore l'operazione per
supportare i serbi moderati del Kosovo e per verificare le dichiarazioni dei
leader kosovari albanesi che a parole si pronunciano per un Kosovo
multietnico.
SNV ha inoltre criticato quelle organizzazioni umanitarie che stanno
aiutando i serbi profughi dal Kosovo a costruirsi case nel sud della Serbia
e non si adoperano invece per il loro ritorno.
Trovate comunque il testo intero del rapporto qui di seguito
Serbs Set for Kosovo Return
Serb refugees disillusioned with life in Serbia are being encouraged to
return to Kosovo.
By Miroslav Filipovic in Kraljevo (BCR No. 136, 2-May-00)
Around 20,000 Kosovo Serb refugees could be repatriated under a plan drafted
by Serb leaders in the province.
The Serbian National Council, SNV, says its proposal, which has been
submitted to the international community, would help to create multi-ethnic
territory in the north of Kosovo.
Under the plan, refugees would return to the parishes of Istok and Klina,
located between Mitrovica and Zubin Potok, the only places where Serbs have
remained in large numbers.
Following the withdrawal of Serbian forces last June, about 350,000
non-Albanians left Kosovo, among them about 270,000 Serbs. Cold-shouldered
and faced with insurmountable financial difficulties in Serbia, many now
want to return to Kosovo.
Mihajlo Doncic, from Bice in Kosovo, lives with around fifty other Serb
refugees in one household in Jovac, near Kraljevo, Serbia, " We know we must
be a burden to local people and to Serbia - that's why we want to go back.
"This weekend we visited our villages in Kosovo. They are all destroyed, but
they are still our villages and our property."
Before the exodus from Kosovo, there were 34 villages in Istok and Klina in
which Serbs formed the majority, and 41 in which they represented a
significant minority. Serbs owned 60 per cent of the land in the area.
The leader of Serbs from Mitrovica and President of the Executive Council of
SNV, Oliver Ivanovic, said," The Serbs are facing a grave situation. Time is
not on our side. We are getting further away from a multi-ethnic Kosovo
every day."
According to the SNV, the refugee return will take place in two phases. The
first will see Serbs going back to villages in which they were a majority;
the second to where they were a minority. The stages are scheduled to finish
by mid-June and the end of September respectively.
Ivanovic says the weakness of the plan, which is said to have US backing, is
that KFOR may not be able to protect the refugees. "The return of the Serbs
should be secured by KFOR," he says."It is trained for such tasks, so it
must be able to carry it out."
According to US officials, the successful return of Serb refugees would
enhance the position of moderate Serbian leaders, encourage Serb
co-operation with international officials and test the declared readiness of
the Albanian politicians to accept a multi-ethnic Kosovo.
Ivanovic told IWPR that the US State Department has earmarked $5 million for
the repatriation programme. "It is not even near our needs, but it is a good
figure to start with," he said.
The programme, however, has not been welcomed by UNHCR. "We can hardly
support something like this at the moment," said a senior UNHCR official,
adding the agency could only back repatriation when key conditions, such as
the security of the refugees, their accommodation and access to public
services, have been met.
NATO, however, is keen to see the process go-ahead, arguing repatriation can
no longer wait for perfect conditions.
Meanwhile, The President of SNV in Mitrovica, Dr Vuko Antonijevic, has
criticised humanitarian organisations that have helped Kosovo Serb refugees
build houses in Serbia.
"This works against the interests of the Serbian people, " he said. "We want
them to return. If somebody builds a house for them in Serbia, they will
remain there. I appeal to the humanitarian organisations to wait for the
refugees to go back and then build houses for them."
Ivanovic wants Albanian leaders to agree to the repatriation project in
writing. So far, the Party of Democratic Success, led by Hashim Thaci, has
said it is not against the plan, but insists it should be preceded by the
freeing of Albanian prisoners in Serbia.
At the same time, more and more refugees are making it clear that they no
longer want to live in Serbia. Representatives from the Council for the
Return of Serbs from Istok and Klina have opened offices in Kraljevo and
Kragujevac - Serbian cities with the largest number of refugees from the two
parishes - and they say the number of people eager to come back is growing.
"There is no life for us outside Kosovo," said Dragica Ruspic from Istok.
"We're blamed for everything bad that happens in Serbia. Local people say
we're responsible for everything."
Meanwhile, Bratislava Morina from the Ministry of Refugees in Serbia says
that if Kosovo Serbs should not be compelled to return. "The SNV cannot make
one person return to Kosovo, if he does not wish to do so," she said
recently in Kraljevo, during the talks about the fate of about 25,000
refugees in this city.
It's clear that the current instability in the north of Kosovo would make it
hard for Serbs to return. Repatriation, though, is a priority for those who
stayed behind. "This year is decisive, " said Ivanovic. " Either Serbs
return to Kosovo, or those of us who remain will leave for Serbia."
Miroslav Filipovic is a regular contributor to IWPR from Kraljevo.

 serbi dal Kosovo, per convicere i serbi kosovari a tornare nella provincia.
Beh, ci penseranno i fratelli albanesi a convincerli che è meglio che se ne
stiano a casa loro.


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 saccheggio e omicidi vari che prima, durante e sopratutto dopo la fine
della
Ci risiamo con queste discussioni manicheiste di stampo etnico, si può
sapere perchè una delle due fazioni dovrebbe avere ragione a massacrare
l'altra?
Ritorno a dire che è comprensibile l'odio che rimane dopo una guerra, ma non
è giustificabile.
La vendetta non può essere giustificata e l'UCK era tutto quello che
l'Albania poteva mettere in campo come esercito.
Ogni esercito a volte si lascia prendere la mano, ma questo è perchè il
singolo soldato è un criminale, non perchè l'intera organizzazione sia
concepita con l'unico scopo di distruggere e saccheggiare.