Fearing revenge attacks by ethnic Albanians, tens of thousands of Kosovo Serbs fled the province as Serbian forces withdrew at the end of the conflict in 1999, as did thousands of other non-Albanian minorities.
Strahujući od osvetničkih napada lokalnih Albanaca desetine hiljada kosovskih Srba napustile su pokrajinu kada su se povukle srpske snage po okončanju sukoba 1999, a isto su učinile i hiljade pripadnika drugih manjina.