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Kosovo

15 images Created 13 Sep 2009

The seeds of unrest and conflict in the Balkans can be traced back as far as history has been recorded. After years of simmering tensions, fighting erupted in Kosovo in 1998 between the majority Albanians and the Serbs. Nearly one year later, NATO launched a 78-day bombing campaign and the world watched as hundreds of thousands of refugees fled to Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro.
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  • Ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo wait to receive food at a camp set up by French and English military from NATO near Skopje, Macedonia Wednesday, April 7, 1999. The camp has helped to alleviate the crisis at the border camp in Blace where hundreds of people died.  (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo wait for relatives to arrive at the Stenkovec camp near Skopje,  Macedonia, Monday April 12, 1999. Many more refugees flooded the camp today thinking that if they left host families and registered here, they would be able to leave the country. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • A family member mourns the loss of her brother, who was gunned downed the day before in a cafe in Pec, Kosovo,  Wednesday, December 16, 1998. Six teenage Serbians were killed in the cafe allegedly by the Kosovo Liberation Army who were retaliating against the 31 Albanians killed on the border earlier   on Tuesday.  (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo rush to get goods from the Italian Nato forces in the Stenkovec camo near Skopje, Macedonia, April 10, 1999.  (Photo By Ami Vitale)
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  • John Holmstrom, 21, from Calumet, Michigan treats ethnic Albanian Isuf Rrahmani, 61, after he was attacked by angry Serbians who were fleeing their village of Zegra in Kosovo Thursday, June 24, 1999. (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An American NATO soldier stands in the pouring rain protecting Serb civilians from ethnic Albanians who forced them out of their homes Wednesday, June 30, 1999 in Urosevac in Kosovo. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • A Serbian woman cries over her husband's body in Gracko, Kosovo Wednesday, July 28, 1999. Fourteen Serbians were slain on Friday night. (PHOTO BY AMI VITALE)
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  • An ethnic Albanian refugee from Kosovo sits in a bus waiting to be transported to the Brazda camp near Skopje, Macedonia, Thursday, April 22, 1999.   (Photo By Ami Vitale)
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  • An ethnic Albanian watches American troops patrol through her village near Kololec where 2 Serbs were allegedly shot Monday, August 2, 1999 in Kosovo. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo rush to get goods from the Italian Nato forces in the Stenkovec camo near Skopje, Macedonia, April 10, 1999.  (Photo By Ami Vitale)
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  • Villagers head to the Sunday market near Kopilic I Ulet in Kosovo Sunday, December 13, 1998.  (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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