Gypsies Seek Protection in Kosovo Camps; Homes Are Targets Of Ethnic Albanians From: The Washington Post | Date: July 15, 1999| Author: Dan Eggen | 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

Just 150 Gypsies arrived here at first, skinny horses and roughshod carts in tow, squatting in a fetid, abandoned secondary school under the protective gaze of NATO troops. Then there were 500, and then 1,000, and then hundreds more every day, spilling into the schoolyard and fashioning tents from discarded plastic, burlap and whatever else they could find.

Now holding more than 5,000 people and equipped with just 22 latrines, the settlement west of Pristina is the largest of scores of...

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