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Tue 11 Nov 2009Mitrovica's toxic camps are home to a demonised people
AS KOSOVO’S Albanians and Serbs move from violent conflict into a poisonous and paralysing stand-off, a third community in this fledgling state is suffering most of all, writes DANIEL McLAUGHLINin Mitrovica
The Roma of Kosovo are demonised by its 90 per cent Albanian majority and at best tolerated, often resented, by the Serbs who stayed here after a 1998-1999 war broke Belgrade’s hold on the region and ultimately led to the independence that they vow never to accept.
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