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PRISTINA (Reuters) - says a report Wednesday that the unwillingness of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership in ensuring the rights of minorities, has alienated many Bosnians, Turks, Roma and other minorities non-Serbs. The Albanian majority has

declared independence in February last year, nine years after NATO had carried out a bombing campaign lasting 78 days, to oust Serb forces from Kosovo.

Since then, have deepened ethnic divisions among the two million Albanians and 120,000 Serbs remaining in the country, with 14,000 NATO peacekeepers and European Union mission of 2,000 members who oversee a fragile peace.

The report of the Minority Rights Group International (MGI) says that the Bosnians, Croats, Gorani, Roma, Ashkali, Egyptians and Turks, who are 5% of the population, face discrimination and many of them have since left the country .

"There is lack of will policy and substantial investment in the development of effective rights of minorities among the Albanian majority, "he says." Along with a bad economy, these conditions mean that many members of minority communities are permanently leaving the new state of Kosovo.

The report says the poor treatment of minorities was due to the perception that they were allied to the former Serbian regime in the 90s, or who have done little to oppose it.

strongman of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, was accused by the tribunal for war crimes of the United Nations for murdering members of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, but died before his trial in The Hague had been completed.

non-Serb minorities in Kosovo have criticized the international community to give too much attention to Serbian-Albanian relations and ignore the other groups.

"The priority of the international community should be to ensure that there is some kind of mechanism of international human rights to which minorities in Kosovo can appeal," he said in an interview with Mark Lattimer, director of MGI.

The group said it would help ensure the protection of minorities in Kosovo in the path towards the European Union.

Kosovo is the only western Balkan country without a clear prospect of joining the bloc, as some member states including Spain and Greece have not recognized. Serbia is still looking to Kosovo as part of its historical territory, and has asked the International Court of Justice in The Hague to judge the legality of secession.

Source: Roma former Yugoslavia