More documentation is to come. There is plenty of Western literature about the problem.

Demographic Explosion in Kosovo

Excerpts from different Encyclopediae

Watching the explosion:

• Encyclopedia Britannica, Edition 1973, Vol 13, Page 479
  (quote):

Kosovo-Metohija (Kosmet), an autonomous region of Serbia, Yugoslavia. Population (1961) 963,988, of whom the majority are Albanian-speaking Shqipetars.
(End quote)

• Collier's Encyclopedia, Edition 1993, Vol 23, p 726
  (qoute):

Kosovo, also known as Kosovo-Metohija..., an area on the south of the Republic of Serbia, southern Yugoslavia. Densely populated, Kosovo had 1,954,747 inhabitants in 1991. The largest group are Albanians (77 percent), Serbs (13 percent), Bosnian Muslims (4 percent), Roma (2 percent), and Montenegrins (2 percent).
(end quote)

We are talking here about THE HIGHEST BIRTH RATE IN EUROPE and one of the highest on Planet Earth. The population DOUBLED in thirty years. In other words it will be TENFOLD in a century.

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