Senokes Refugee Camp, Macedonia, Published May 23, 1999 Refugees wait to be...READ ON
Senokes Refugee Camp, Macedonia, Published May 23, 1999 Refugees wait to be unloaded in the Senokos refugee camp in Macedonia after a journey from the border. As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the border daily. Some days a hundred would arrive. Some days, a thousand. And some days, up to ten thousand would frantically try to escape from the Serb paramilitary forces. Each day they were put on buses and often sat for hours in the heat before they were taken to refugee camps. Often the reality of what had happened to them and their families would only sink in upon their arrival into the massive camps, when looking out the bus windows, they surveyed a sea of refugees and tents, which would become their new home. Here: A mother and child wait for their bus to be unloaded in the Senokos refugee camp in Macedonia, after a journey from the border. WP Slideshow Caption: Refugees wait for their bus to be unloaded in the Senokos refugee camp, after a journey from the Macedonia border. WEBSITE CAPTION: When I arrived to on the border of Macedonia and Kosovo on April 5, 1999, 50,000 Kosovar Albanians had been trapped for almost a week after being forcibly evicted from their homes by Serb paramilitary forces. Not allowed to cross into Macedonia they were stuck in a no-man's land called Blace with no shelter from the cold, rain, and oppressive daytime heat and little access to food and water. Senokes Refugee camp Macedonia
A father pleads with Macedonian soldiers to allow his sick child into a...READ ON
A father pleads with Macedonian soldiers to allow his sick child into a medical tent on the Macedonian side of the border.
Border of Macedonia and Kosovo, April 6, 1999 A woman approached me....READ ON
Border of Macedonia and Kosovo, April 6, 1999 A woman approached me. "Please help me," she pleaded. "My mother is sick and I'm afraid she won't live much longer in these conditions." She offered me $1000 which was the sum of money they were able to smuggle out. All I could do was tell her to put her money away and then direct them to an already overcrowded volunteer medical tent nearby. WP Slideshow Caption: Stunned Kosovo refugees, who have been shipped by train to the Macedonian border, sit in the makeshift refugee camp in Blace. Blace Macedonia
Volunteers pulled the sick and infirm out of the crowds into medical tents....READ ON
Volunteers pulled the sick and infirm out of the crowds into medical tents. Rumors began to breed that diseases like cholera were spreading.
I followed a relief truck into a sea of humanity. The volunteers threw bread...READ ON
I followed a relief truck into a sea of humanity. The volunteers threw bread and milk into the crowd. It seemed cruel, but they were doing their best: a carton of milk or a loaf of bread for thousands of people?
One morning we arrived to find the camp empty. Overnight the Macedonian...READ ON
One morning we arrived to find the camp empty. Overnight the Macedonian government had moved tens of thousands of refugees to newly built camps nearby. The ground was littered with their belongings--passports, family pictures, documents, clothing, and makeshift tents reflecting a chaotic scene that had happened under the cover of darkness.
Refugees arriving from Kosovo to the Stankovac refugee camp wait anxiously...READ ON
Refugees arriving from Kosovo to the Stankovac refugee camp wait anxiously for food, water, and blankets. Many of them traveled for days in Kosovo and then waited days more at the border before being accepted by Macedonian authorities.
Nedjmije Huseni gets a hug from her 8-year-old nephew who was held with his...READ ON
Nedjmije Huseni gets a hug from her 8-year-old nephew who was held with his family at a refugee camp after they fled from Kosovo.
Refugees from the Cegrane camp crowd around buses arriving from the...READ ON
Refugees from the Cegrane camp crowd around buses arriving from the Macedonian border, hoping to learn about family members left behind.
As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the...READ ON
As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the border daily. Some days a hundred would arrive. Some days, a thousand. And some days, up to ten thousand would frantically try to escape from the Serb paramilitary forces. Each day they were put on buses and often sat for hours in the heat before they were taken to refugee camps.
As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the...READ ON
As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the border daily. Some days a hundred would arrive. Some days, a thousand. And some days, up to ten thousand would frantically try to escape from the Serb paramilitary forces. Each day they were put on buses and often sat for hours in the heat before they were taken to refugee camps.
As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the...READ ON
As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the border daily. Some days a hundred would arrive. Some days, a thousand. And some days, up to ten thousand would frantically try to escape from the Serb paramilitary forces. Each day they were put on buses and often sat for hours in the heat before they were taken to refugee camps.
As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the...READ ON
As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the border daily. Some days a hundred would arrive. Some days, a thousand. And some days, up to ten thousand would frantically try to escape from the Serb paramilitary forces. Each day they were put on buses and often sat for hours in the heat before they were taken to refugee camps.
As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the...READ ON
As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the border daily. Some days a hundred would arrive. Some days, a thousand. And some days, up to ten thousand would frantically try to escape from the Serb paramilitary forces. Each day they were put on buses and often sat for hours in the heat before they were taken to refugee camps.
As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the...READ ON
As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the border daily. Some days a hundred would arrive. Some days, a thousand. And some days, up to ten thousand would frantically try to escape from the Serb paramilitary forces. Each day they were put on buses and often sat for hours in the heat before they were taken to refugee camps.
As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the...READ ON
As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the border daily. Some days a hundred would arrive. Some days, a thousand. And some days, up to ten thousand would frantically try to escape from the Serb paramilitary forces. Each day they were put on buses and often sat for hours in the heat before they were taken to refugee camps.
As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the...READ ON
As the NATO bombing campaign persisted, refugees continued to reach the border daily. Some days a hundred would arrive. Some days, a thousand. And some days, up to ten thousand would frantically try to escape from the Serb paramilitary forces. Each day they were put on buses and often sat for hours in the heat before they were taken to refugee camps.
Macedonia, May 1999 As the NATO bombing campain persisted, refugees continued...READ ON
Macedonia, May 1999 As the NATO bombing campain persisted, refugees continued to reach the border daily. Some days a hundred would arrive. Some days, a thousand. And some days, up to ten thousand would frantically try to escape from the Serb paramilitary forces. Each day they were put on buses and often sat for hours in the heat before they were taken to refugee camps. Often the reality of what had happened to them and their families would only sink in upon their arrival into the massive camps, when looking out the bus windows, they surveyed a sea of refugees and tents, which would become their new home. WP Slideshow Caption: A child peers from a bus window into the unknown, as fellow Kosovar wait anxiously in Blace on their way to Macedonian refugee camps. Macedonia
After the war as the Serb military and paramilitary agree to withdraw,...READ ON
After the war as the Serb military and paramilitary agree to withdraw, Kosovar Albanians began to go home. Here, a returning refugee waves the Kosovar/Albanian flag over his village.
Pristina, Kosovo June 1999 Kosovar refugees return home to Kosovo from...READ ON
Pristina, Kosovo June 1999 Kosovar refugees return home to Kosovo from Macedonia and Albania after KFOR troops took over Serb positions. Pristina Kosovo
June 1999 A woman surveys the historic section of the city Pec, which was...READ ON
June 1999 A woman surveys the historic section of the city Pec, which was razed by Yugoslav soldiers and paramilitary during the war. Before the war, Pec was a tourist destination known for its arts. Kosovo
Vlastica, Kosovo Published July 4,1999 A group of ethnic Albanian men carry...READ ON
Vlastica, Kosovo Published July 4,1999 A group of ethnic Albanian men carry the casket containing the remains of Lulzim Musli,11, to a cemetery at the edge of the Kosovo village of Vlastica, where he lived with his family before the war. Villagers come back to Vlastica to find a massacre and to discover what happened to some of their missing family members. For Feti and Lutfie Musliu they returned to discover the body of their 11- year-old son, Lulzim, who was separated from them, when the villagers fled. He was shot and killed as he ran from the village to find his parents. Vlastica Kosovo
In Djakovica we met with some of the families of victims killed by the Serb...READ ON
In Djakovica we met with some of the families of victims killed by the Serb police, including Hyik and Shquibe Spahiu, who invited us into their home. They were still shaken by the death of their son, Astritt, 25, a student of electrical engineering at the University of Pristina. Hyik Spahiu thinking back to all they had been through during the past few months said, "If I try to take revenge and do to the Serbs what they had done to me, I pray to God that NATO stops me." As we prepared to leave and Shquibe began to walk us to the door, her husband, a long-time obstetrician and gynecologist in the city, who treated Serbian and Albanian patients alike, suddenly cried out, "Maybe the man who killed my son was born from my own hands." Both he and his wife begin to weep uncontrollably.
Pasjane, Kosovo Published December 12,1999 Lt. Thomas Buchholz, on foot...READ ON
Pasjane, Kosovo Published December 12,1999 Lt. Thomas Buchholz, on foot patrol as part of his peacekeeping duties, says hello to two residents. Pasjane Kosovo
Kosovo Oct/Nov 1999 Published d Dec 19, 1999 Darinka Zivkovic (center) is...READ ON
Kosovo Oct/Nov 1999 Published d Dec 19, 1999 Darinka Zivkovic (center) is comforted by members of the U.S. Army after they told her that they had no leads on the whearabouts of her husband, a Serb, who was kidnapped by Albanians when he returned to the school where he taught. WP Slideshow Caption: U.S. Army translator Jasmina Dordevic comforts Darinka Zivkovic, who has just learned there is still no news on Zivkovic’s husband, who was kidnapped. On the right is Darinka's daughter, Ivana. The U.S. Army was investigating the kidnapping Kosovo
Pristina, Kosovo Oct/Nov 1999 Frightened elderly Serb residents keep the...READ ON
Pristina, Kosovo Oct/Nov 1999 Frightened elderly Serb residents keep the windows covered as they are now afraid to venture out in the capitol city Pristina, fearful that Kosovar Albanians will take revenge on them. WP Slideshow Caption: In Pristina, Kosovo, Serb mother and daughter close their curtains to Albanian neighbors to keep private the two women’s visit from British soldiers. Pristina Kosovo
Letnica, Kosovo November 1999 U.S. Army Lt. Chris Stevens attends services at...READ ON
Letnica, Kosovo November 1999 U.S. Army Lt. Chris Stevens attends services at the Roman Catholic church in Letnica, Kosovo, where about 80 of the 300 Croats who once lived there remain. Stevens later met with the Croats to discuss how to protect them. Ethnic enmities are a major problem American peacekeepers in Kosovo have to deal with. Letnica Kosovo
Children follow U.S. soldiers on patrol in Kosovo. "Kosovo is a province...READ ON
Children follow U.S. soldiers on patrol in Kosovo. "Kosovo is a province of victims--both Serbian and Albanian. Unfortunately, both sides are still being victimized by the people who are supposed to be leading them." U.S. Army Lt. Col. Michael Ellerbe.