The American writer and journalist Paul Polanski passed away on the 26th of March 2021 after a short but very difficult illness. He comes from Iowa, he spent most of his life in Europe, where he studied the movements of the Roma population. Before the end of the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, he came to Kosovo, where after a demand from the UN, he was asked to volunteer in a Roma refugee camp. He began living in Knez village near Nish in 2006. During his residence in Kosovo, the Albanians have tried to kidnap him several times. – I am not politically oriented, but I am a witness to those events. I wrote about the refusal of KFOR to protect the minorities. Later on I was a witness of a prosecution in the spring of 2004, when all enclaves were attacked by the Albanians. I was present when the Albanians brought fuel reservoirs, they poured water in the Fushe Hospital in Kosovo and set it up in flames.
The doctors and the medical staff that were inside, were running away through the side exits, while I was standing there with police forces from the UN, which refused to intervene – said Polanski during an interview.
