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How Serbia is pruning Albanians in the Kumanovo Valley without war

2022-04-04 20:13:30Fokus SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

How Serbia is pruning Albanians in the Kumanovo Valley without war

Accusations that at least 6,000 Albanians from the Kumanovo Valley could not vote in Sunday's Serbian elections are not without a base. A few days before the voting process was held, the removal of Albanian names from the lists was denounced as a process that had been going on for years by the Serbian government.

Flora Ferati Sachsenmaier's study reveals how Serbian authorities delete Albanian addresses, making them virtually stateless, or impossible to obtain new documentation, education and health service, can't even register the unborn.

"In 2015 I was studying in the area and some families, activists and politicians denounced the phenomenon. They're erasing us, they told me. This expression remained in my mind and I was moved," she tells EurActiv.

Flora Ferati says that from the data she collected, in some villages of Medvedje ethnic cleansing of Albanians has been aggressive in this form.

"In some areas of this commune the Albanian population has a decrease of 40 to 71 percent in the registers, although they continue to live there. As an example, in the village of Sfrica there is a 71 percent drop in Albanian voters between 2012 and 2019 and in Sijarina by 70 percent," she says.

According to the study, in this ethnic cleansing that lowers the electoral weight of Albanians, Serbia is using a legal vacuum. The law says all voters must be confirmed by employees of the central election commission. The latter conducts the verification process at addresses. But in the case of Albanians, these observers, although they find them in the dwellings, send false data reporting them as empty houses, without residents.

"It is important that we stress that Serbia is abusing this law. Every country in Europe has a residence law, but no country in Europe uses this law to target a specific ethnic group as in Serbia's case," Says Ferati.

The researcher states that to hide traces, Serbs do not give any written documents to Albanians. "Because they know they're violating the Constitution," she says.

The Helsinki Serb Committee has described Serbia's practice as "ethnic administrative cleansing".


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