PRISTINA, Sept 1 (Hina) - School began Monday for almost 350,000 primary and secondary school students in Kosovo, the southern Serbian province, whose classes are held in Albanian, and, for the sixth year in a row, they are held
mostly in improvised classrooms in private residences.
PRISTINA, Sept 1 (Hina) - School began Monday for almost 350,000
primary and secondary school students in Kosovo, the southern Serbian
province, whose classes are held in Albanian, and, for the sixth year in a
row, they are held mostly in improvised classrooms in private residences.
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Although the former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic last year
signed an agreement with the leader of Kosovo Albanians, Ibrahim Rugova,
on the unconditional return of Albanian pupils and students to their
classrooms and student halls, the Serbian side has been preventing and
blocking the initiative which is mediated by the religious humanitarian
organisation St. Eggidio from Rome.
There were suggestions that Albanian students, teachers and parents
stage a protest in front of schools in Kosovo, but it has been postponed for
the end of the month.
If by then the last attempt to have the agreement on Albanian schools
fulfilled fails, Albanian students and pupils in Kosovo would begin mass
demonstrations initiated by the Pristina University Independent Albanian
Students' Union.
The Serbian regime rebuffed many human rights in Kosovo in 1991,
including the right to an education in the people's mother tongue.
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