This is the story I mentioned. I excerpt bits of Dzemail Zeinulah's testimony (which was reported July 26, 1999 from Rijeka, Croatia) to show his course from Kosovo to there. Hungary isn't mentioned at all.:
http://www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/Peace/ps22.html "I guess you’ve heard of the Mahala in Kosovska Mitrovica. That’s our community...
There we stood on the other side of the Ibar River and saw it all with our own eyes; clouds of smoke rising, all our sweat burning up in flames... more than one thousand five hundred homes... We stood there silent and still, more than six thousand of us Romanies watching our lives expire.
As for us, we scattered anywhere we could... A couple thousand ended up at Zvecara in Kosovo where they were placed in a camp together with the Serbs… We went on foot in the direction of Novi Pazar (a town in southwest Serbia). Nothing to carry, but the voyage is tedious. My wife, two sons, a daughter-in-law and me…
Foreign politicians say NATO will form a militia made up of Albanians, the KLA members. The very same ones who plundered us, burned our homes and drove us away will protect us. From whom? I see, evil is spreading and so we decide on Sarajevo. We stayed there with some kinfolk for a short time. We see things are pretty tough here, too. Our kinfolk paid our way to Croatia, which we crossed over into illegally."
So, this is how he traveled: Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo --> Zvecara, Kosovo --> Novi Pazar, Serbia --> Sarajevo --> Croatia
The reason I said Hungary was because I read that the NATO troops in Bosnia had orders not to let Serbs from Serbia through the border during the bombing. Maybe that was incorrect. Even if true, I'm sure some still got in, though. I'm also sure UNHCR and other refugee agencies were clearing the way for refugees from Kosovo during and after the bombing. People who left Kosovo and went to third countries wouldn't affect the census figures as we're not including the population of Kosovo.
As for why the family from Novi Sad didn't want to go back... maybe because Novi Sad and got bombed real good. Main targets in Novi Sad were the oil refinery (bombed repeatedly), the bridges and the TV station. The power plant was also bombed (target) and a residential area was hit (NATO called this an error). All the bridges were bombed along with the water pipes which carried water across the bridges, so the water supply was knocked out. Maybe their home was one of the ones bombed, or maybe all the smoke from the bombed refinery plus no water, no power, no bridges did the trick.