Innocents


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There are those the world calls innocent
Lost their homes, towns, lives, lost all,
Poor Albanians, fighting vicious Serbs,
Victims and innocents, them the worlds media call.

There are those who call themselves innocent
Suffered under Turks scimitar and Nazi Germany too,
The Albanians helped the Turks and Germans,
They must fight ferocious to survive, as friends they have few.

There are those, unseen, who ARE innocent,
Each child of theirs in a few years will be dead,
Roma refugees - some few hundred, of Kosovska Mitrovica,
Who live and die because the UN made their camps of slagheap's of lead.

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What about those who were really innocent in the Kosovo campaign, the Roma refugees?

Paul Polansky and his charity are still working with them, and little is improving, and UNMIK and UNHCR are doing little as usual, and making a big fuss about the little they are doing.

 

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