Many Muslim women of Kosovo are routinely beaten, enslaved and for many that are saved from violence and slavery, the untold many do not make it say women advocates and social workers, reports Los Angeles Times.

"Among Kosovo's many challenges, from building state institutions to combating rampant corruption, is improving its historically unjust and often criminal treatment of women," writes LA Times.

Kosovo is a Serbian province dominated by Muslim Albanians that have illegally declared independence which some Western countries have recognized in violation of the UN Charter and the Helsinki Act.

Traditionally, Muslim Albanian women in Kosovo are cloaked and tucked away behind high-walled compounds that house large number of clan members.

While Islamic subjects in the Islamic Ottoman Empire, it was considered priseworthy for a Kosovo Albanian men to forcefully abduct a Christian woman, typically ethnic Serb females, and threaten the family with death if they tried to get their daughter back. Ottoman Muslim authorities rarely interfered in preventing this practice.

As such abductions tempered off after the WWII, the communist regime in Yugoslavia attempted to size-down the high-walled compounds with no success.

In the 1990s, some Albanian Muslim clansmen used the compounds to hoard enslaved females brought in from Romania or Moldova while readying them for sale in Western brothels.

"Eventually," write LA Times "more and more Kosovo women, ripped from their traditional home life, also fell prey to traffickers and found themselves lured by promises of work, marriage or their own cellphone, only to end up in seedy bars, strip joints and brothels."

Stop Albanian Slavery Blog has been on an awareness campaign about the precarious situation of Albanian Muslim females in the region but, since June of 2007, it stopped its activity.

A 2000 UN study estimates that 25% of Kosovo's Albanian Muslim females suffer physical or psychological abuse but only 1,000 cases of domestic violence have been recorded by Kosovo Albanian authorities.