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BALKANS KOSOVO - ALBANIA : TRANSHUMANCES
From
1997, the south of the balkans, strongly unstable as to contain the emergent
nationalisms. It is not by coincidence that this area is called the powder-keg,
and one more time the civilian pay for the consequences of those partisan
fights for the independence of kosovo.
The international diplomacy, helpless for months had let Milosevic in charge to decide if an act from UCK has to be considered as a terrorist act or not. The policy of burned land and the ethnic cleansing planed from 1998 has thrown out on the road thousand of refugees. Immediately the first metastasis of this conflict affect all europe. Some profitable networks of smugglers which leave on the albanian beach, the shells of boat people where children play increase regularly. Many smuggles controlled by the local mafia raise and feed the conflict in : arms, fuel, drugs and prostitution. The refugees will be soon thousand to be packed in camps where life will progressively take back her rights.
As a picture of cars with no registration that tirelessly go thru the check-point border, those souls in transit without identities make a long transhumance to escape from the exactions of galvanized Serb milicians by the NATO bombing. Cars, hitched-up, trains, tractors, the most rudimentary meanings can save life and ensure the escape facing terror. The KFOR coming after the retreat of the serbian army opens eyes on this devastated kosovo. The feelings of happiness are mixed at that moment with the anxiety of the difficult return. Today, an explosive cohabitation his settling between those two age-old communities.
The international diplomacy, helpless for months had let Milosevic in charge to decide if an act from UCK has to be considered as a terrorist act or not. The policy of burned land and the ethnic cleansing planed from 1998 has thrown out on the road thousand of refugees. Immediately the first metastasis of this conflict affect all europe. Some profitable networks of smugglers which leave on the albanian beach, the shells of boat people where children play increase regularly. Many smuggles controlled by the local mafia raise and feed the conflict in : arms, fuel, drugs and prostitution. The refugees will be soon thousand to be packed in camps where life will progressively take back her rights.
As a picture of cars with no registration that tirelessly go thru the check-point border, those souls in transit without identities make a long transhumance to escape from the exactions of galvanized Serb milicians by the NATO bombing. Cars, hitched-up, trains, tractors, the most rudimentary meanings can save life and ensure the escape facing terror. The KFOR coming after the retreat of the serbian army opens eyes on this devastated kosovo. The feelings of happiness are mixed at that moment with the anxiety of the difficult return. Today, an explosive cohabitation his settling between those two age-old communities.