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By Will Englund and Will Englund,SUN FOREIGN STAFF | June 17, 1999
PRIZREN, Yugoslavia -- The lifeblood of this city began flowing again yesterday.Eleven-year-old Isaj Kryeziu sold door locks at the outdoor Qulhan market, to people whose front doors had been smashed in.Hajri Hamza, teetering on a ladder, scraped the Serbian lettering off the front of his dress shop, so that only the Albanian remained.And Shenol Tabak, on his first day back in business as a barber in three months, snipped away at Afrim Gashi's straggly curls."This morning," he said, "I've seen too many bad haircuts that people tried to give themselves during the war."
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By Tom Bowman and Tom Bowman,SUN NATIONAL STAFF | April 11, 1999
WASHINGTON -- In an effort to increase the attacks on Serbian ground troops in Kosovo, the Pentagon added 82 U.S. aircraft to the NATO air armada attacking Yugoslavia yesterday, saying that dozens of other alliance planes were expected in the coming days.In the package are 34 combat aircraft, including two dozen U.S. Air Force F-16CJ Flying Falcons, equipped with anti-radiation missiles designed to take out air defenses, and four A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthogs," which target tanks and other armor.
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By Los Angeles Times | May 25, 1992
PRIZREN, Yugoslavia -- Grooming the next battlefield for Yugoslavia's roving civil war, Serb police arrested ethnic Albanian activists, seized ballot boxes and harassed U.S. election monitors yesterday in a vain attempt to disrupt an independence vote in Serbia's restive southwestern province of Kosovo, adjacent to Albania and Macedonia.Despite intimidation by heavily armed Serbian police and Yugoslav federal troops patrolling in armored vehicles, Albanians flooded to secret polling places to vote for a president and Parliament committed to independence from the Serbian republic.
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By Will Englund and Will Englund,SUN FOREIGN STAFF | April 29, 1999
KUKES, Albania -- Several thousand refugees trudged across the border from Kosovo here yesterday after a lull of nine days, some telling stories of nightmarish weeks during which they moved from village to village, living in basements and burned-out homes, before the Serbs finally expelled them.Refugees told of men being killed along the roadside, and of their families being forced to shout, "Long live Serbia, long live Slobodan Milosevic."Traslije Sokolaj, from the town of Meja, said Serbian soldiers came to her home Tuesday and told everyone to leave.
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By Will Englund and Will Englund,SUN FOREIGN STAFF | June 20, 1999
PRIZREN, Yugoslavia -- Zela Ahmetaj lost her leg to a NATO bomb. So did Ljuljeta Rexhaj. Sevdije Kukaj lost 11 members of her extended family, all in the same attack. They don't blame the NATO pilot who launched the bomb, because they believe that Serbian police deliberately put them in harm's way.They were among several hundred refugees from the village of Korisa who were locked inside a building supply depot in the early morning hours of May 14, when a single terrifying explosion destroyed the depot and killed 87 people.
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June 18, 1999
THE PROBLEMS facing the peacekeeping troops in Kosovo were not long coming. Foremost are the hordes of Albanian Kosovars going back to destroyed villages and homes, and others still wandering in the hills seeking water and food.Although the Serbian army is withdrawing as agreed, more problems quickly became apparent, with the complaint of Bishop Artemije Radosavljevic that monasteries and churches were under siege in Prizren from Kosovo Liberation Army members patrolling the streets. Serbian Orthodox institutions survived in Kosovo during centuries of Turkish rule.