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...swollen Ibar River. Exactly how they died is not clear, but a surviving child said his friends had been chased by Serbs with a dog. From there rumors escalated into riots and eventually gunfire. Some senior politicians urged calm. Others, however, including the Minister of Public Services, Jakup Krasniqi, said the violence was the understandable result of five years of "anti-Albanian policy" by the international community. That's a hint at the underlying causes. Kosovo Albanians have been pressing for full independence from Serbia since the war ended, and some are losing patience with the international community for failing...
...Kosovo Liberation Army was less forgiving, with spokesman Jakub Krasniqi denouncing Rugova as a traitor. "If Rugova makes a deal with Milosevic and the Russians, that can be real trouble for NATO," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Unlike the KLA, he's an elected leader and can legitimately claim to represent a sizable chunk of the population...
...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...
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...
...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...