1st of August: Building Future; Homeland; Circassia
1st of August 1998 is the returning day of 124 Circassians living in Kosovo, to their homeland Circassia. The most important feature of this day is, that it is the first mass return movement to their homeland, after the Circassians were expelled from their homeland with the Circassian Genocide and Exile on May 21, 1864.
Circassians, who were in the middle of the war in Yugoslavia at that time, with the efforts of President of the Republic...