Invented pogroms - Statistics, lies and confusion in Kosovo

According to the 1991 census the number of Kosovo Serbs was 194,000.8 In 1999, after the end of the Kosovo war, the Serbian military and administration withdrew from Kosovo. [...] ESI looked at this in 2004 in our report: “The Lausanne Principle – Multiethnicity, Territory and the Future of Kosovo’s Serbs.”9 We obtained a document from the Kosovo Coordination Centre, an administrative body of the government of Serbia, which showed a detailed breakdown of the Kosovo Serb population in 2002. [...] What is their number today? On 8 February 2024, Srpska lista, the dominant Serb political party in Kosovo, appealed to the ambassadors of the USA, France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy in a letter to help “stop the exodus of the Serbian people.” The letter was read out aloud at a press conference.12 There, criticizing the Kosovo government’s policies, Zlatan Elek, head of Srpska Lista, explaine. [...] However, as we have pointed out above, if one compares the data on the number of Serbs who remain in Kosovo with Yugoslav statistical data from before 1999, the extent of displacement of Serbs from Kosovo is more likely to be in the vicinity of 65,000. [...] In some of its documents, however, it expressed serious doubts about the official figures already two decades ago: “The sum of the estimated number of minorities living in Kosovo, and the number of currently registered IDPs in Serbia and Montenegro, results in a figure significantly higher than the minority population that has ever lived in Kosovo … An undetermined number of minority returnees who.