Present Situation
In 2008, there were only 300 Croats estimated to live in Janjevo. The community is slowly moving to Croatia, while Albanians and Roma are buying their properties in Janjevo. The remaining Croats of Janjevo have given their support for an independent Kosovo, but they have said if the conditions in Janjevo do not improve very soon they will all leave Kosovo for Croatia in one last group.
In the municipality of Vitina, in which the village of Letnica is, there are only 60 Croats left according to the 2003 Kosovo population census.
On 28 January 2008, the same day Amnesty International published its report on human rights abuses in Kosovo,a representative of the Croat community in Janjevo, Nikola Brkić, informed the media that the homes of two Croats, Luka Jožić and Roka Čibarlić, in the Šišarka village near Janjevo, had been demolished.
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