Voters Reject Plan to Restore Minority Rights
Slovenes overwhelmingly voted against restoring the rights of thousands of ethnic Bosnians, Croats and Serbs who were stripped of their citizenship when Slovenia broke away from Yugoslavia.
More than 18,000 people were officially erased from state records after Slovenia declared its independence in 1991. The move effectively made them non-persons in the government’s eyes.
The plan to restore the rights was rejected by 95% of voters Sunday, many of whom said they feared that the nation could be forced to pay expensive claims to those known as “the erased.”
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