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Word: kryeziu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Desperate Fight For a Key Outpost | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

Like many other soldiers, Kryeziu is frustrated by the K.L.A.'s disorganization. "Do we have good officers? If you mean someone who tells you to stand there and fire, then we have good officers," he says sarcastically. "I went into battle with a single-shot rifle and 40 bullets. It wasn't enough." Says Arlind Ismailukaj, an Albanian official: "They barely know how to use their Kalashnikovs. Last week they sent in a patrol of 24 men, and 20 were killed. The Serbs are smart and fight with artillery from a distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Desperate Fight For a Key Outpost | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

Malisheva: Serbian forces opened sniper and machine gun fire towards the pupils with the "Lasgush Poradeci" Secondary School: Xhavit H. Kryeziu, Nexhmedin S. Kryeziu and Arben O. Kryeziu from Bubavec, who were on their way back home...

Author: By Simon J. Dedeo, | Title: War Comes to Kosovo | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

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