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After the signing of the bilateral agreement of resettlement between Berlin and the Kosovo government in Pristina, Germany prepared the deportation of more than 10.000 Roma refugees; they were seeking asylum in Germany since the war in 1999 and now UNHCR is advicing against involuntary return to Kosovo. Roma and Ashkali in Kosovo are living under the menace of pauperization and ethnic violence. Also Amnesty International urges the german government to stop this wave of deportation of Roma refugees and prognosticates that the situation in Kosovo will not change in the next years...