Sir, - It has been proven through the media and personal reports that the Kosovars have been persecuted, killed, left without homes and support of community generally, yet our Government is planning to return these lovely people who have integrated so well into Ireland.
Can someone explain the difference between the Kosovan situation and that of the asylum-seekers who have experienced the same trauma? If the asylum-seeker can prove that he/she has experienced these very same injustices, he/she will be given full refugee status. Are we going to send the Kosovars back to a very unsafe country, with no social welfare, no employment, no local police force, no homes, and to live once again in makeshift tents?
Could our Government not give them at least one more year so that their country can return to some form of normality and safety? - Yours, etc.,
Noelle Moylan, Tralee, Co Kerry.