LJUBLJANA, Feb 26 (Hina) - About 20,000 Slovene citizens were left without any rights eleven years ago because they were rubbed out of the population register due to their ethnic origins, the Association of "the Erased", claimed on
Wednesday during a protest march it organised through Ljubljana to warn about the problem of these people who failed to formally request Slovene citizenship when Slovenia became independent.
LJUBLJANA, Feb 26 (Hina) - About 20,000 Slovene citizens were left
without any rights eleven years ago because they were rubbed out of
the population register due to their ethnic origins, the
Association of "the Erased", claimed on Wednesday during a protest
march it organised through Ljubljana to warn about the problem of
these people who failed to formally request Slovene citizenship
when Slovenia became independent. #L#
If Slovenia wishes to become a law-based country, it urgently needs
to abolish the repercussions of that illegal removal of the people
in question from the register, the association said in a public
statement it issued in the week when it is marking the 11th year of
its existence.
(hina) sp ms