{"id":17378,"date":"2021-07-15T09:39:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T07:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=17378"},"modified":"2021-07-15T09:43:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T07:43:21","slug":"helsinki-committee-compares-passivization-of-presevo-albanian-home-addresses-to-ethnic-cleansing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/helsinki-committee-compares-passivization-of-presevo-albanian-home-addresses-to-ethnic-cleansing\/","title":{"rendered":"Helsinki Committee compares passivization of Presevo Albanian home addresses to ethnic cleansing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnic cleansing through administrative means. This is how the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia referred to the phenomenon that is seeing an extensive wipe out of registered residential addresses belonging to ethnic Albanians in the Presevo Valley.<\/p>\n<p>In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helsinki.org.rs\/serbian\/doc\/izvestaj%20presevo%20srb.pdf\">report<\/a> \u201cAlbanian minority on hold \u2013 Presevo, Bujanoc, and Medvegja as hostages of Kosovo-Serbia relations\u201d it stressed that the passivization of the residential addresses aims to reduce the number of ethnic Albanians living in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to reduce as much as possible, the number of Albanians living in the south, the state is conducting the so-called \u2018passivization of residential addresses belonging to Albanians\u2019 working abroad, either in Western Europe or in Kosovo. The measure is in its essence a form of ethnic cleansing through administrative means\u201d, the report read.<\/p>\n<p>Given that there is not sufficient time to file a complaint, as well as many do not even know about the passivization of the address, Albanians lose the right to complain altogether.<\/p>\n<p>The report points out other human rights violations against ethnic Albanians that live in the Presevo Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Of a particular problem is the fact that school diplomas are not recognized leading to a brain drain as many have no other option but to flee, in the impossibility to find employment in public or private institutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2020\/10\/02\/national-fund-of-solidarity-presevo-mayor-love-for-the-country-should-be-expressed-through-projects-also\/\">\u201cNational Fund of Solidarity\u201d, Presevo mayor: Love for the country should be expressed through projects also<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2020\/09\/08\/albania-to-distribute-free-school-textbooks-for-children-at-the-presevo-valley\/\">Albania to distribute free school textbooks for children at the Presevo Valley<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/balkan-talks\/2021\/05\/18\/nullification-of-albanian-addresses-in-presheva-mustafa-a-macabre-ethnic-cleansing-balkan-talks\/\">Balkan Talks | Nullification of Albanian addresses in Presheva, Mustafa: Macabre ethnic cleansing<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnic cleansing through administrative means. This is how the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia referred to the phenomenon that is seeing an extensive wipe out of registered residential addresses belonging to ethnic Albanians in the Presevo Valley. In its report \u201cAlbanian minority on hold \u2013 Presevo, Bujanoc, and Medvegja as hostages of Kosovo-Serbia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":17379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Helsinki Committee compares passivization of Presevo Albanian home addresses to ethnic cleansing - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/helsinki-committee-compares-passivization-of-presevo-albanian-home-addresses-to-ethnic-cleansing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Helsinki Committee compares passivization of Presevo Albanian home addresses to ethnic cleansing - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ethnic cleansing through administrative means. 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