They did not exist, they were never counted among population
percentages. They did not exist - either for world powers or for
the media, which cast a clear light on whole peoples, or else
render them invisible. The Roma have stayed invisible. For
years, reports on Kosovo and analyses of the struggles between
the KLA and the Serbian troops and militia never mentioned the
Roma or the other non-Albanian and non-Serbian communities. Yet
the Roma were at least ten percent of the population of Kosovo.
Even the pictures and stories of the terrible flow of refugees
from Kosovo during the bombing never showed them. The Roma were
there, and they came back together with the Albanians. However,
now that NATO has occupied Kosovo, they are again filling the
camps which had been abandoned and half dismantled. They sit in
the green and white army tents and can watch the children's
scribbles on the hard tent fabric: KLA symbols, names of
Albanian heroes, NATO airplanes rising steeply into the air.
Like in other Balkan countri