ABSTRACT
One can be forgiven if one thought that by crossing the border between Macedonia and Kosovo, one was as likely to be lined up against the wall and shot as allowed through. All of the reports from Kosovo, still an autonomous region within Serbia, had painted pictures of a gray and bleak land. Above all, they depicted a people living in terror. Once the Serbs “consolidated” in the north, they would attack next. Banks are also closed—that way, Kosovars cannot get money from outside. TV and radio are completely controlled by Belgrade so that, in one of the many Orwellian scenes in this strange capital, Kosovars are forced nightly to watch Belgrade TV extolling the “heroism” of the Serb irregulars who are destroying Bosnia and slaughtering Muslims like them. Serbian artillery of the kind that is destroying Sarajevo has now been placed in the mountains around Prishtina.
