1.   Human rights advocates say racial minorities continue to be persecuted.

2.   Minority rights National and ethnic minorities continued to assert their interests.

3.   National and ethnic minorities continued to assert their interests.

4.   Hundreds of thousands of Albanians driven out by the Serbs have returned from refugee camps, and the Serbian and Gypsy minorities continue to be harassed and attacked.

5.   Racial minorities continue to suffer discrimination, so civil rights laws must be vigorously enforced, he said.

6.   A small minority continues to fight a spirited rear-guard action against this attitude.

7.   The London-based human rights group Amnesty International said in June that ethnic minorities continue to be repressed, mostly with forced labor.