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Network of Committees for Human Rights in Serbia (Chris) NETWORK OF COMMITTEES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN SERBIA (CHRIS) SERBIA Alternative Report submitted pursuant to Article 25 Paragraph 1 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities September, 2007 Supported by the FUND FOR AN OPEN SOCIETY – SERBIA 2 The basic idea of the Network of Committees for Human Rights in Serbia (CHRIS)1 in drawing up the Alternative Report on the Implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities2 was directly to include in its compiling representatives of national minorities’, national councils of national minorities, NGO representatives and experts dealing with this issue, for the purpose of obtaining a more objective presentation of the position of minority communities. In view of this, the report represents a synthesis of the individual reports of the following protagonists: Experts: • Prof. Saša Kicošev, Ph.D. (Demographic data) • Dubravka Valić-Nedeljković, Ph.D. (Media) • Aleksandra Vujić, M.A. (The synthesis of all reports, a review on the Opinion of the Advisory Committee and the Resolution of the Committee of Ministers on the first State Report). Organizations: 1. Network of Committees for Human Rights in Serbia (CHRIS) 2. National Council of the Bulgarian national minority 3. National Council of the Bosniak national minority 4. National Council of the Greek national minority 5. National Council of the Roma national minority 6. National Council of the Vlach national minority 7. Creative Center Caribrod 8. Center for Multicultural Education, Preševo 9. Sandžak Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms, Novi Pazar 10. Bosniak Cultural Society „Preporod“ 11. Civic Forum – Novi Pazar 12. Civic Action for Human Rights – Priboj 13. Serbian Alliance of Vlachs 14. Culture Society of the Romanians-Vlachs of Serbia“Pravoslavni Rumuni” (“Orthodox Romanians”) 15. The Commitee for Human Rights, Negotin 16. Society for the preservation and development of the language, culture and religion of the Vlachs in the Morava River valley 17. “Lunjina” Association, Belgrade For information of the normative part of the report see Alternative Report of Voivodina Center for Human Rights. The stands and opinions of CHRIS are reflected only in the parts of the reports written by these organizations. 1 The network consists of 6 organizations – Niš, Human Rights Committee – Negotin, Human Rights Committee – Valjevo, Human Rights Committee – Vranje, Civic Forum – Novi Pazar and Voivodina Center for Human Rights – Novi Sad, referred to hereinafter as: CHRIS. 2 Referred to hereinafter as: FCNM 3 INTRODUCTION Information about the Ethnic Groups Covered by the Report Albanians Network of Committees for Human Rights in Serbia (CHRIS) People with highly substantial territorial concentration whereof 88,8% lives in the municipalities of Preševo and Bujanovac and in the very south of Serbia respectively. Although persons belonging to the Albanian national minority boycotted the previous two censuses, the current number of Albanians may be considered realistic since it overlaps with the number of persons speaking Albanian as their mother tongue. Centre for Multicultural Education, Preševo Preševo, Bujanovac and Medveđa municipalities are located in southern of Serbia bordering with Kosovo and FYR of Macedonia. During the Ottoman Empire this region was the integral part of the Vilayet of Kosovo. After 1918, Preševo and Bujanovac were attached to the Zupa of Skopje, and after the territorial division to “banovinas”, it was attached to the Vardar Banovina with its centre in Skoplje. After World War II, these municipalities remained within the Republic of Serbia. They cover a territory of 1249 km2 (Preševo 264 km2 , Bujanovac 461 km2 , Medveđa 524 km2 )3. According to the 1991 census, the number of inhabitants in these municipalities was 100.609 (whereof 67.836 Albanians), while the 2002 census registered 88.966 inhabitants (whereof 57.595 Albanians). Table 1: The National Affiliation of the Population According to the Data from 1991 Nationality Preševo Bujanovac Medveda 1. Albanians 34 992 – 89.95% 29 588 – 60.08% 3 832 – 28.67% 3. Serbs 3 206 14 660 – 29.58 % 8 194 - 61.30% 4. Roma 502 4 408 – 8.95% 119 5. Others 240 582 1223 Table 2: The National Affiliation of the Population According to the Data from 2002 Nationality Preševo Bujanovac Medveda Albanians 31 098 – 89.09 % 23 681 – 54.69 % 2 816 – 26.17% Serbs 2 984 – 8.55 % 14 782 – 34.14% 7 163 – 66.57 % Roma 322 – 0.92 % 3 867 – 8.93 % 109 – 1 % These data indicate that the number of inhabitants in above mentioned municipalities in 2002 dropped for 11.57% or 11.643 persons in relation to 1991 and, when persons belonging to the Albanian national minority are considered, their number was 10.241 less or 15,09% in 2002 respectively. Since population growth in these 3 municipalities is very similar to the growth of population in Kosovo (being the highest in Europe), the root causes of the drop in the number of inhabitants in the censuses are as follows: • The 2002 census did not cover citizens residing abroad for a period longer than one year. • During the armed conflicts in 1999 a number of Albanians had left their homes never to return because of security and social reasons. Roma National Council of the Roma national minority According to surveys carried out by members of the National Council of the Roma national minority and certain experts and institutions dealing with their way of life and customs, the Roma account for around 10% of the Serbian population, while, according to other estimates, this population numbers 3 Important road and railroad traffic routes pass through Bujanovac and Preševo. 4 between 600,000 and 1,000,000 persons; The concentration of the Roma is the largest in southern and central Serbia: Bujanovac (around 8,000), Vladičin Han (6,000 – 7,000), Surdulica (around 8,000), Vranje (around 10,000), the municipality of Leskovac (around 10,000), Niš (around 10% of the population). There is no municipality in Serbia without Roma inhabitants, but in many of these municipalities they declare themselves as Serbs. The Serbo-Montenegrin Roma are mostly of the Orthodox and Sunni- Muslim religion, while the number of Roma Catholics and Roma Protestants is smaller. There are also those who do not recognize their confessional origin. Bosniaks Network of Committees for Human Rights in Serbia (CHRIS) After the disintegration of the former Socialistic Federative Republic of Yugoslavia4, former Muslims became Bosniaks in the ethnic sense of the word. Their number is significantly higher in central Serbia at present than that of those, who declare themselves as Muslims, while the situation in the Autonomous Province of Voivodina5 is diametrically opposed. Bosniaks live in substantial number in various parts of central Serbia and enjoy ethnic majority there (Novi Pazar, Sjenica, Tutin...), while in areas, where they do not create the majority, they more frequently declare themselves as Muslims. The Sandžak Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms, Novi Pazar As the result of the referendum in Montenegro6 and the disintegration of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, the Bosniak community has been divided between the two distinct and autonomous states, despite their interconnection in «Serbian» and «Montenegrin» parts of Sandžak. At present, Sandžak means the Serbian part of the territory (Novi Pazar, Tutin, Sjenica, Nova Varoš, Prijepolje and Priboj), or even the territory proper, three municipalities only: Novi Pazar, Sjenica and Tutin, while the rest of Sandžak’s territory in the Republic of Montenegro is mentioned less often. Bulgarians Network of Committees for Human Rights in Serbia (CHRIS) They are mostly settled in the south-eastern parts of central Serbia, and present an ethnic majority in the municipalities of Bosilegrad and Dimitrovgrad. This ethnic group is characterised by highly unfavourable biological and demographic features. Caribrod Creative Centre Bulgarians have been enjoying the status of a national minority and ethnic group respectively since 1945. They live in substantial number in the Dimitrovgrad and Bosilegrad municipalities and in some parts of the municipalities of Pirot, Babušnica and Surdulica. In the APV there are Catholic Bulgarians called “Bulgarians from Banat», who live, in particular, in the village of Ivanovo near Pančevo and in the region of Kovin and Zrenjanin. According to the official data, there were about 60.000 Bulgarians in Serbia after World War II, yet their number is three times less at present. In relation to the number of persons belonging to other national communities, Bulgarians made the highest percentage of those detained on Goli Otok Island. This fact had left a deep mark on the mindset of this minority community, and it is one of the root causes of the community’s imitative behaviour and converting into Yugoslavs and Serbs. The decades-long poverty and geographic dispersion of Bulgarians, accompanied with scarce communication within the community, additionaly influenced inability of Bulgarians to organise themselves and articule their own minority space for many years. 4 Reffered to herein as: SFRY 5 Reffered to herein as: APV 6 In 2006. 5 Vlachs Network of Committees for Human Rights in Serbia (CHRIS) The Vlachs are an autochthonous population of eastern Serbia. As regards their identity, four versions have appeared: • The Vlachs or Romanians are linguistic synonyms, they are one nation, with one root and one language7 • Only Romanians live in eastern Serbia, Vlachs do not exist • The Vlachs are a separate nation • The Vlachs are Romanized Serbs Their numerical size can be followed through population censuses only since the second half of the 20th century. Interestingly, even earlier on (in the 1961 census) and in the population census of 2002, it is their mother tongue that they considered to represent their identity, rather than their ethnic affiliation. In the 1961 census, only a few thousand people declared themselves as “Vlachs”, while over 100,000 persons stated that the Vlach language was their mother tongue.
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