Kosovo Has Not Many Reasons To Be Proud Of Tolerance

KTV

23 November 2004

The Camp in Plemetin means a house for the residents who have been living here since the end of the war, not having the possibility of making a normal life outside the camp. Here is where a large number of Ashkalia and Roma minority members in Kosovo live.

Nevertheless, most of them say they are happy with the freedoms they enjoy by living in the country. They also emphasize that they have good relations with the majority Albanian population. "We depend on social assistance. Had we been scared, nobody would go to pick up social assistance, because nobody puts his/her life in danger for 42 Euro," one Camp resident said.

Differently from them, a small number of residents expressed fear to live in Kosovo. One resident said, "We can never go out, anywhere; we must stay here only, closed." According to her, there is fear everywhere, when one stays and when one sleeps. This is Kosovo on the Tolerance Day 2004.

Pajazit Nushi, president of KLMDNJ/CDHRF said that currently Albanians cannot be proud of the level of tolerance in Kosovo. According to him, the intolerance rate of opinions, values, acts, and behaviors and of attitude that other individual might have is not respected by the other individual.

In the message addressed by the UN Secretary General Koffi Annan on the occasion of Tolerance Day states that no society can hope to make progress unless it promotes a key virtue such as tolerance, which, according to him, is a condition for democracy, peace, and for a sustainable development.