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...easy for Kadriu to relate the details of his shooting through an Albanian interpreter, but he is measured and phlegmatic. Emotional reaction overcomes him only at moments. When taking a wedding photo from its frame, a key falls out from behind the print. "This is key to house in Kosovo," he says tearfully in his newly acquired English. "Now the key is all we have. House gone...
...journalistic sidelines, however, is writing about gadgets and high tech. It was this technological bent, in fact, that led directly to his powerfully affecting story on how telemedicine played a key role in giving hope to a young Albanian man whose face had been shattered by a bullet in Kosovo. Digital cameras, laptops and Internet links transmitted the photos that touched the hearts of the team of volunteer doctors who offered the war victim not just a new face but a new life as well. The transforming role that technology is playing in our world is a theme dear...
...chugs to a halt on a dirt road overlooking Serbia's snow-covered Presevo Valley. Out clamber three men dressed in mismatched fatigues, toting an assortment of pistols and grenades. The apparent leader, a deeply tanned, shorter version of Fidel Castro, steps forward. "Welcome," he says, "to Kosovo, Part...
...Serbia. Their group's name: Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, or, in Albanian, the UCPMB. Since January it has staged ambushes on Serb police, provoking reprisals. The killings and the sudden emergence of the UCPMB bear a striking resemblance to the maneuverings three years ago of the Kosovo Liberation Army. "This is an unfinished war," says an Albanian editor in Pristina. Indeed, the Presevo Valley is expected to share the top of the agenda when Kosovo's NATO commander briefs the U.N. Security Council this week in New York City...
...region is predominantly ethnic Albanian, but like Kosovo before last year's NATO bombing, its power structure is dominated by Serbs. It was at the Jan. 27 funeral of two woodcutters allegedly executed by Serb security forces that nine former K.L.A. soldiers first declared their intention to resist. "We have no other option than to protect ourselves," says the UCPMB founder, a 35-year-old former car mechanic who insists on anonymity. Belgrade's plans remain unclear, though NATO intelligence has reported an increase in police and army activity along the Kosovo border. Officially, Belgrade calls the group U.S.-backed...