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...life of animals," says Agron Qosa, who forages for food on the dumps near Trepca. "We were told this would be our settlement only for 40 days. Now, six years after that promise, we are without any fundamental support," Roma representative Elizabeta Bajrami says. Last week Kosovar Prime Minister Bajram Kosumi pledged $257,000 for the relocation of the Roma and for pollution control. The United Nations hopes the problem will be solved by the end of the summer but, says Gyorgy Kokuk, the spokesman for the U.N. mission for northern Kosovo, "The Roma refuse to move anywhere but their...
...ending its present mission: "We can no longer defer the most difficult issues to an indefinite future." There is no more difficult issue than Kosovo's independence - and no middle ground between the two communities' views. Kosovar Albanian leaders want results now. "Independence," the Kosovar Albanian Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi told Time, "is necessary for our development. Any [further] delay will bring more trouble." Kosovar Serbs say they don't trust Albanian leaders to protect their rights. "We have heard all the promises before," says Ilija Trajkovic. "They are old lies." U.N. officials insist that the best way Serbs...
Zehir Kryeziu, 29, is a former car painter in Germany who, with two days' training, was thrown into the battle on Wednesday. Lying in a grimy hospital bed in nearby Bajram Curri, still wearing his mud-caked uniform, he says he was carrying supplies to the assault forces when he was hit in the groin with shrapnel. "I had to walk for 24 hours holding my wound closed," he says. "When I got out of Kosovo I had to stop a local car and persuade the driver to take me to the hospital...
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