Tag: refugees

July 24, 2014

Fifteen years ago I strung together a handful of assignments for relief organizations and newspapers and got myself to the border between Kosovo and Albania just as the Serbian ethnic cleansing of Kosovo got underway and the first refugees started arriving. The desolate town of Kukes in Northern Albania was a sad, lawless place for…

April 5, 1996

I meet Vuc over lunch. He is picking his meal out of a dumpster on an alley in central Belgrade. Like half a million other Serbs in former Yugoslavia he has come here on the run from the ethnic cleansing that has taken place in Croatia and Bosnia  during the past five years. They’re an…