Word: abdyl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kosovo. Their houses, resembling modest forts, are hidden behind high walls of brick if the owners are well off or crude fences of woven sticks if they are not. Out on an isolated bluff, behind a particularly high brick wall, sits the compound of the village hoxha (religious leader), Abdyl Krasniqi...
...inside when they started shooting," says Qerim Krasniqi, 51, the blond, thick-set eldest son of Abdyl and father of the wounded child. "A girl was screaming, and I went out and saw my son lying on the ground. I grabbed him by the belt, and beneath him there was blood everywhere." Sipping Turkish coffee, Qerim glances at his wizened father. The crackling fire in a small cast-iron stove fills the silence as the Krasniqi men, sitting on cushions around the edge of the dark, bare room, consider the violence that followed...
...most devoted seekers of peace--and there are fewer and fewer of them--see little chance of avoiding a war. In Vojnik, where Bahri is home from the hospital and recovering from his leg wound, the villagers are already there. "The Serb authorities have lost control," says hoxha Abdyl Krasniqi. "But you can't say we are liberated...
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