AUTO-PAGE-TITLE It is March and the anniversaries of the massacres committed by Serbian forces in Krusha e Madhe and Pastasel are nearing. They are commemorated on the 26th…
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Slap “Here you see the mourning family of two brothers who died…” Slap “This is a real mass grave…” Slap “In this mass grave you can see…
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE It was usual to find portraits of ancestors hanging in the living rooms of each of the family compounds. Acting like a family tree, they represented people’s…
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE I I am looking through a series of matt photos that are organised in an album. They have each been carefully placed behind individual plastic sheets that…
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE After a long day of pickling peppers and cooking ajwar in the yard, Arieta[1] joined me on the shilte, a foam mat spread out on the veranda.…
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Apart from the wind the only sound that can be heard is the grinding of metal shovels breaking the rocky earth. About 30 men are digging graves…
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Serbian armed forces systematically attacked villages in the municipality of Rahovec, expulsing civilians, shelling and destroying homes and properties, and killing livestock. Carryi…
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE In one of our many conversations about the Kosovo War, the late village representative, Kadri Dellova, told me: “The massacre of Krusha e Madhe is still fresh…
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE “Come in!” we hear in response to our gentle knock on the door. We enter Dr. Cena’s modestly furnished office in the heart of the community health…
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Anduena[1] looks affectionately at her son sitting snugly in her lap, and says, “For him the war is like a fairy tale. He often asks, ‘Mother, tell…
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Women who lost their husbands during the Kosovo War were perceived to be hovering in a liminal space. They could neither be treated as married women nor…
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE “When I think about the war, I imagine that it isn’t real,” Valbona tells me during one of my frequent visits to her family home. “It seems…
War was on everybody’s lips. There was an impending sense of anticipation as Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia loomed large.[1] Television news reported on the steadily…