KLA, KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY - UÇK, USHTRIE ÇLIRIMTARE E KÖSOVES
Most of the following pictures come from July 1998, when I succeeded - first reporter ever and together with two colleagues writers, Fausto Biloslavo and Gian Micalessin - to cross the heavily-guarded Albanian / Yugoslav border, entering Kosovo with a group of KLA volunteer fighters. At that time no journalist had yet reached Unik, the capital of so called Liberated Territories which was almost under siege from serbian military and definitely depending, for whatever need or supply, on these "convoys" crossing almost every night the border high on the mountains (up to 8000 feet a.s.l. in Deravica). By the way, these group of fighters - most of them volunteers - were to endure a risky trip due to serbian border police equipped with night-vision devices, to booby traps spread all over mountain paths and all but sporadic mortar shelling.
Most of the following pictures come from July 1998, when I succeeded - first reporter ever and together with two colleagues writers, Fausto Biloslavo and Gian Micalessin - to cross the heavily-guarded Albanian / Yugoslav border, entering Kosovo with a group of KLA volunteer fighters. At that time no journalist had yet reached Unik, the capital of so called Liberated Territories which was almost under siege from serbian military and definitely depending, for whatever need or supply, on these "convoys" crossing almost every night the border high on the mountains (up to 8000 feet a.s.l. in Deravica). By the way, these group of fighters - most of them volunteers - were to endure a risky trip due to serbian border police equipped with night-vision devices, to booby traps spread all over mountain paths and all but sporadic mortar shelling.
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| 52001 KLA patrols in Unik |
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| 52006 Checking an abandoned building in Nece, close to the frontline |
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| 52004 KLA Special Forces member |
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| 52011 This german kosovar, dubbed as "Rambo" was with me during an unsuccesful attempt to cross the border back to Albania with agroup of women and wounded-ill children. Click HERE for full story |
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| 52012 Local KLA commander in Nece, a christian village some 15 miles from Unik |
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| 52021 KLA fighter in its native house in Albania |
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| 52022 Crossing the Albanian border with a group of KLA volunteer fighters |
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| 52030 Bajram Curri (Northern Albania) Wounded KLA fighter in local hospital |
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| 52124 Patrolling around in Nece |
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| 52014 Gjocaj, just south of Unik Local teen-ager KLA fighters |
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| 52013 KLA Special Forces |
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| 52031 Wounded KLA fighter in Unik medication post (sorry, no hospital available) |
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| 52015 Gjocaj A painter-fighter with his masterpiece |
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| 52130 Unik Horses were most useful to carry weapons and supplies through the mountains, so they become a first-choice target for serbian snipers |
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| 52512 Bajram Curri (North Albania), April 1999 The burial of a KLA fighter dead in Koshare, a few hundred meters inside Kosovo territory |
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| 52007 Nece Patrolling a building evacuated after being severely hit by serbian tanks, standing 3000 ft. away |
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| 52522 Bajram Curri (North Albania), April 1999 The burial of a KLA fighter |
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| 52107 Gjocaj Cleaning weapons in the courtyard |
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| 52028 Unik, Medication Post KLA volunteers wounded by shell while crossing the Albanian border |
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| 52002 Unik Young KLA fighter with villager |
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| 52518 Bayram Curri (North Albania) KLA fighters mournings |
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| 52017 Typical Kosovar fist-to-forehead military salute |
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| 52003 Rolling a cigarette in Downtown Unik |
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