MEP Viola von Cramon, the European Parliament Rapporteur on Kosovo has denounced Serbia’s policy to remove Albanians from its own civil registry.
Retweeting a message by researcher Flora Ferati-Sachsenmaier with statistics resulting from this policy in the Albanian-majority towns in Serbia, von Cramon called on the Council of Europe and the OSCE to answer the concerns.
#Depassivisation of Serbian citizenship continues as this table clearly shows. This takes place in a predominantly Albanian-populated region in the South of #Serbia. How and why can ordinary citizens get ripped off their basic rights? @coe @OSCE_Serbia https://t.co/QYqUut3d2Y
— Viola von Cramon (@ViolavonCramon) December 20, 2021
According to Ferati-Sachsenmaier, in the last four years, Serbian authorities have purged thousands of Albanians from the civil registry in municipalities in the south of Serbia. The researcher maintains that the removal is “systematic” and “politically motivated”, and it rips Serbia’s Albanians from basic human rights.
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