Word: sipkovica
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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When the shelling began one sunny afternoon last week in the tiny mountainside village of Sipkovica, Fekrige Muharemi figured that the best place to protect her family would be on the ground floor of her home, a recently built, two-story whitewashed house with thick concrete-block walls. She even invited two other families--15 children and 10 adults--to shelter with her. The illusion did not last long. The 36-year-old mother of two was pouring Turkish coffee in small china cups for her guests when the shell hit. It tore into the upstairs bedroom, blasting...
...Sipkovica a former bricklayer and political dissident shifts his rifle uncomfortably as he tries to explain his grievance. Like several local N.L.A. commanders, he was imprisoned by the old Yugoslav regime in the 1980s for trying to start an Albanian political party. Now 63, he considers the new government no improvement. "The Slavs say we are the problem, but they are the ones trying to destroy our nation," he says, referring to the ethnic-Macedonian majority. "We are just trying to defend ourselves...
Back in Tetovo, police and army forces continue to pound suspected rebel sites. While NATO has refused to offer troops, it is providing intelligence, training and communications assistance. The Bush Administration said on Saturday that it would help improve Macedonia's "military capabilities." In Sipkovica the day after last week's shelling, 20 children huddled in a darkened cellar, waiting for the bombs to start falling again. In the gloom, infants and their mothers cried out in alarm as word spread of a new bombardment. "The bombs are coming from the sky!" exclaimed Zeqige Rexhepi, 40, mother of five, wringing...
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