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In the past two months, ethnic Albanian terrorists have driven more than 6,000 Romanies out of their Rasadnik district in the south of Kosovska Mitrovica in Kosovo-Metohija, according to a report on Tuesday.
Terrorists have torched 548 Romany homes, or 99 percent, in that biggest Romany settlement in this U.N.-administered province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia, leaving only 3 houses standing, the town's Romany Community leader Nusret Saiti told TANJUG.
Kosovska Mitrovica's Romanies have sought shelter in Zvecan and Leposavic in Kosovo-Metohija, as well as in Kraljevo, Kragujevac, Smederevska Palanka and Subotica in Serbia and in Podgorica, in the other Yugoslav republic, Montenegro.
"They thought we were helping Serbs, and that was the main reason they started on us, plundering and burning Romany homes. The fact is, however, that Romanies were not even mobilised into the army in this war," Saiti said.
Last week, ethnic Albanian terrorists burned one of the last remaining Romany houses in Rasadnik, with its owner Azem Azizi, aged 78, still in it. International KFor force troops found the charred remains on Monday.
According to Saiti, there are barely some 20 Romanies in Kosovska Mitrovica now, mostly in the north, predominantly Serb-populated part of the town.