Word: bahri
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vushtrri: Since 8 a.m., Serbian forces are shelling the villages of Balinca, Liqej, Oshlan, Galica, Duboc, Lybovec, Druar, Mihaliq, Pantina, Stroc, Taraxha, Gurbardh, Zhilivoda and Beuk. The detonations were heard in Vushtrri, too. Due to the shelling, Fahri Gela, 38, was wounded in Mihaliq and Bahri Hyseni was wounded in Shallc. In Mihaliq, the Ibrahimi quarter was completely burned. Some houses in the attacked villages are on fire. The house of Hajriz Syla in Beuk...
...shot that pierced the leg of Bahri Krasniqi, an 11-year-old ethnic Albanian who lives in the tiny village of Vojnik, may have been enough to set fire again to the depressingly familiar tinder of ethnic hate, violent temperament and political oppression...
Kosovo is the historical and cultural homeland of Serbs, and the estimated 100,000 who live there dominate the 2 million ethnic Albanians by force and repression. But that rule is crumbling. During the late-November fire fight that wounded Bahri Krasniqi, rebels drove Serb process servers and their police escorts out of the village. When heavily armed Serb reinforcements returned next day, angry rebels ambushed them outside town and drove them back. Serb authorities have not dared return since, and the shadowy Kosovo Liberation Army (K.L.A.) has rallied to the region and patrols its rural roads by night. Intentionally...
...Milosevic cracked down in the province, some 200 ethnic Albanians have died. Now the Serb death toll is rising in step. On both sides, even the 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...