Word: kosovar
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...Liberation Army moved in, and it has continued right under the noses of Western peacekeepers. And unlike Kosovo?s Serbs, the Gypsies have nowhere to go. Those who tried to leave with the Serbs were turned back at the border, leaving them to the face the wrath of the Kosovar Albanians. Although NATO's KFOR peacekeepers have vowed to protect them, the understaffed force isn?t geared up to deal with low-level ethnic cleansing. Instead, Gypsies have been forced to abandon their homes and flee to makeshift refugee camps in some of the major Kosovo towns, where the peacekeepers...
...Kosovar attacks on the Roma aren?t based simply on traditional European stereotyping of Gypsies as a menacing criminal element; they?re a response to the Gypsies? perceived support of Serb savagery against ethnic Albanians. Enraged by tales of Gypsies looting Albanian property or being enlisted by Serb paramilitaries to bury the bodies of massacred Albanians ? and even some accounts of torture and rape at the hands of individual Gypsies ?- returning refugees and the KLA have vowed to rid the province of its Roma population...
...revolutionaries go, Thaci has a dream resume. Young, attractive and toting a sexy nickname, "the Snake," he is the face of the Kosovo Liberation Army. The glamour is burnished by accomplishment: Kosovar Albanians see him as the man who got them NATO military support and the right to an autonomous existence. And he has become the go-to man in postwar Kosovo. When the generals of the KFOR (Kosovo Force) peacekeeping troops and K.L.A. commanders could not arrive at an agreement to demilitarize the rebel army, they called Thaci to find a solution...
...frantic Serbian civilians plod out. Standing on Thursday morning inside a ring of KFOR tanks idling in front of Pec's Hotel Metohija, Sasa Deletic eyed the empty streets and muttered, "If the Albanians control the city, then I will leave. They are animals." At least 50,000 Kosovar Serbs have joined the 40,000 troops trekking north to Serbia. Says Stojanka Markovic, piling her entire household on a rusty red Yugo: "This is it. We're in a state of panic." Markovic, her husband and her 76-year-old mother were the last Serbs to leave Podujevo, a metropolis...
...horror in Kosovo has radicalized even those in the province who once considered themselves liberal. After a day in the ruins of Pec, his hometown, Dukagjin Gorani, a Kosovar journalist, said, "We have had enough of moderation here. The Serbs must go. Serbian will never be spoken here again...