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About 500 Gypsies from Kosovo-Metohija, accommodated in the Stenkovac refugee camp in Macedonia, have been protesting for days, seeking better living conditions and either return to Kosovo-Metohija or resettlement elsewhere.
The Gypsies in Stenkovac have received no food other than stale bread, tomatoes and peppers for four days now. There are no doctors to help those among them who are sick and feeble.
They say they wish to return to the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, but not under the existing conditions.
They insist that their return is impossible at present because the international KFOR force, which secures the province, has not disarmed the terrorists of the ethnic Albanian so-called KLA, who have driven them from their homes in the first place.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Skopje office would not comment on the Gypsies' protests, saying only the office is helping as much as it can, and that their resettlement to third countries is impossible. Meanwhile, more Gypsies displaced from Kosovo-Metohija keep pouring into Stenkovac.