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Vengeance Fuels the Fires of Kosovo; Ethnic Albanians Lash Out at Serbs, Guilty or Not
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
August 17, 1999| Author:
Peter Finn; William Booth
| Copyright 1999 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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In this bucolic village, the awful symmetry of Kosovo's war of
ethnic hatred is particularly clear. The oppressed become the
oppressors, and the winners take all and leave nothing for the
vanquished.
During the war, it was the ethnic Albanians in this area of
western Kosovo who fled -- to the refugee camps, to the forests.
Now, it is the Serbian villagers who are displaced, living in a dank
schoolhouse in Kraljevo, Serbia, their homes -- almost every one of
them -- burned to blackened ...
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