War In The Balkans: Finding Homes
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Your support makes all the difference.The UN High Commission for Refugees estimates that more than 600,000 people, the vast majority of them ethnic Albanians, have left Kosovo since Nato began its air assault 24 March.
Many of Kosovo's 1.8 million ethnic Albanians were already displaced before the current exodus. This includes 100,000 Kosovars who sought asylum in European countries before the air strikes on Yugoslavia.
The whereabouts and numbers of the refugees, according to the UNHCR:
Albania 363,100
Macedonia 135,200
Montenegro 65,700
Bosnia H'govina 32,500
Refugees who have been evacuated from Macedonia, according to the UNHCR:
Germany 9,974
Turkey 4,425
Norway 1,265
France 772
Belgium 676
Austria 45
Poland 635
Britain 161
Netherlands 152
Sweden 132
Israel 106
Croatia 88
Switzerland 33
Iceland 23
Countries that have offered to take in refugees on a temporary basis, according to governments:
Turkey 20,000
United States 20,000
Germany 10,000
Finland 10,000
Norway 6,000
Sweden 5,000
Austria 5,000
Switzerland 2,500
Netherlands 2,000
Denmark 1,500
Romania 1,500
Poland 1,000
Iceland 100
Malta 100
Countries that have offered to take in refugees, but where plans have been put on hold because UNHCR wants to keep them in Europe:
Canada 5,000
Australia 4,000
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