Albanians displaced from Valley: Foreigners in Homeland, Foreigners in Kosovo

So said Council of Medvedja member Muharrem Salihu, adding that the “to be part of the group of Albanians without documents, helped undesign their census in Serbia and prevented their return to the first centres in Medvedja, Bujanovac or Presevo”.

Salihu explains that Albanians of Serbia displaced in Kosovo were never equipped with documents from the Serbian state, as a result they could not be equipped with documents in Kosovo, which also affected the birth of these families in Kosovo.

To the Albanians of Medvedja and Valley, who are temporary residents in Kosovo, they remained foreigners both in Kosovo's homeland.

Such a thing, according to Salih, is not random, but it is a well-planned estimate, to remove Albanians from Medvedja first and then from Bujanovac and Presevo.

The treatment of Serbia's Albanians as immigrants is not an occasional treatment, or a “malpractice<x2 human concept. On the contrary, it is a well-thought estimate, as part of a long-term plan to get them away forever from Medvedja and then from the Presevo Bujanec. emigrants are forcing Albanians to apply for temporary or permanent residence permits and in the absence of documentation from the country of origin, they cannot be supplied with documents at the host country”, Salihu told Telegrafi.

Council of Medvedja member Muharrem Salihu returned 21 years ago to clarify the beginning of the problem with which many Medvedja Albanians are now facing five years.

The transfer of Albanians from Medvedja, Bujanovac and Presevo to Kosovo and the evacuation of Kosovo Serbs to Serbia became almost parallel during and after the 1999 war in Kosovo, but they were never treated the same.

“Albanians of the Medvedja and Presevo Valley who, beyond their will, were forced to move to Kosovo after 1999, were never registered as refugees. Not only were they not treated as temporary displaced, but neither were they systematically registered by any Albanian or international institutions. Serbia's Albanians were simply treated as volunteer immigrants, while on the other hand Kosovo Serbs who moved to Serbia in the same period were classified and registered as refugees”, Salihu says.

This equal sample, against these two social groups, has been done at the expense of Albanians, who, Salihu said, were violated by fundamental rights.

“According to the UNCHR, the United Nations Agency for Refugees, “a refugee is someone who has been forced to leave his country because of persecution, war or violence. ... thewar and ethnic, tribal and religious violence are the main causes of refugees leaving their countries”. And according to the United Nations Organization, “an immigrant is someone who has changed his place of current residence, regardless of the reason for migration or legal status”. It is sufficient to read these lines to understand the discrimination that has been done to the Albanians of Serbia, violation of their fundamental rights and their treatment differently compared to Kosovo Serbs”, Salihu said.

The removal of Kosovo Serbs to Serbia and the displacement of Albanians from Serbia to Kosovo were addressed in two different status states, according to Salih.

“whether national or international, both these shifts were topics and treated in completely different ways and with two different statuses. As a result, Serbian representatives have often been heard saying: “Medvedja Albanians have gone to Kosovo”, as if they went out for wish. But they are neither heard nor expected to be heard to talk about the causes that forced Albanian citizens of Medvedja and other Albanian municipalities in Serbia to go to Kosovo”, Salihu says.

Salihu said that if they were treated as refugees of Serbia who were displaced because of the war in Kosovo, they would also be guaranteed protection from international organisations dealing with the refugee issue, have the right to asylum, the right to treatment as any foreigner who is legal resident, the right to exercise human freedoms such as thought, movement, the right to equipment with travel documents to move abroad, and many others.

The “would thus be protected from international law and would not lose their identity as citizens in the country of origin”, he said.

Left at the mercy of fate, without support, Salihu says the existence of Albanians in this area is more than ever at stake.

The situation of the Albanians of Serbia and Kosovo Serbs has been deliberately treated with two standards, at the expense of Albanians, leaving them to the mercy of fate, without support and without support. Already, when the existentialness of the Medvedas and the Albanians of the Bunanoc and Medvedja has been put at risk more than ever, the immigrant need arises for Albanians from three Albanian municipalities in Serbia living in Kosovo to be protected by international law and equipped with identity documents, so that they can exercise their human rights”, Salihu said.

In the meantime, in Zvecan, this Serb-run municipality in northern Kosovo, on an area of 15 hectares, Serbia and the Serbian Orthodox Church are completing the construction of 300 residential units within the settlement “Sun Valley” These residential units are destined for displaced persons from Kosovo, the Serb community. Regarding the construction of the settlement, which amounts to about 14 million euros, few agree to speak or speak.

Official Pristina says there is no evidence that this settlement has received the necessary permits from the local government.

The question of the return of displaced persons to Kosovo after the war in 1999 is the topic of talks on dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia in Brussels, which Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti, and Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, have agreed to at the September 7th meeting, but have not disclosed the details.

According to UNHCR data, 2016, it is believed that those displaced outside Kosovo are about 107 thousand people, of whom 88 thousand in Serbia, more than 1,400 in Montenegro and over 600 people in northern Macedonia.