Deporting Albanians with violence

Today, the 24th anniversary of the Kosovo Albanian exhibition will be marked, when during the 1998-1999 war, they have been forced by Serb forces to move to Macedonia.

To mark this day, today the Blace Memorial Centre in Han, Elez, starting at 10:00, will be the memorial manifesto “Exodus Blace 99<18x1>, with cerrast, the Association for the Return of Albanians Displaced From Their Troys will share the “Hasan Pristina” award for 24 local municipalities, local communities, humanitarian associations, non-governmental media organisation from RMV, which helped Kosovo refugees during the 1998-99 war time.

Also in Blace, photographer Aslan Krasniqi will be released from his archive for the first time in 24 years, and will open 24-Photo exhibit of “Exodus (6) in Blace, Stencoc, and Cegran”.

In addition to the displaced in Albania and Macedonia, thousands of Albanians have crossed the border with Montenegro, while hundreds of thousands have moved from their homes to find refuge in the Kosovo mountains.

They were children, women and old, raped, tortured and massacred.

Exodus, or expulsion of Albanians with violence from their centres, has reached a climax after the start of NATO bombings against the former Yugoslavia's military and police points (Serbia and Montenegro), Kosovo Presses broadcast.

Two years ago, to commemorate the days of the most violent deportation of Albanians from their homes and their suffering from the Serbian regime at the Serbian Memorial Centre “Blaca ão99” in Han, Elez has opened the monument “The Memorial Frameary” as well as the “Hasan Pristina<x> park.