CCA
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Thursday 18th October
1.15pm-2.15pm
A Minority Report
Stefano Giantin
Italy • 007 • 5 mins
UK Premiere
In June 1999, following the end of
the three month NATO campaign
against Yugoslavia, the United Nations
Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) was
established. UNMIK entered Kosovo
under the banner of human rights,
but in the first three months of the
operations, failed to organise an effective
police service.
In the ensuing vacuum, the spirit of
revenge on the part of the Kosovo
Albanian majority went unchecked
and over 240, 000 members of minority
groups - mostly Serbs, Roma
and Gorani - were forced to leave
Kosovo. Their houses and properties
were destroyed or illegally sold and
occupied, graveyards and places of
worship ruined, their traces erased.
Hundreds of those who stayed,
were killed, kidnapped or otherwise
brutally persecuted.
According to UNHCR, only around
15,000 of those forced to flee had
returned to Kosovo by 2007. Those
who have returned live in ghettos
dispersed throughout Kosovo, where
threats, harassments and isolation are
part of daily life. A Minority Report
tells the story of some of those who
tried to return, and presents the
points of view of the international
civil servants who ruled the province
in the last seven years.
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Closing Party
CCA Cafe
Sunday 21st Oct 10.30pm
 Sheila
Stewart is one of Scotland's traditional Traveller storytellers,
and Ballad singers. She has a rich repertoire and has a style
of singing that is strong and passionate and distinctively her
own yet in the fi nest mainstream of the Scottish tradition.
Last in the Line is screened in CCA 4 earlier in the day 1.15pm-
2.00pm where Sheila will also read from her biography of her
mother (Belle Stewart) Queen Amang The Heather.
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