Volume 45, Number 8 · May 14, 1998

Will There Be a War in Kosovo?

By Tim Judah
Kosovo: A Short History
by Noel Malcolm

New York University Press, 492 pp., $28.95

Between Serb and Albanian: A History of Kosovo
by Miranda Vickers

Columbia University Press, 328 pp., $18.50 (paper)

The fighting has subsided in Kosovo for now, but the waiting has begun. Villages blockaded by the Serbian police are silent, almost deserted, but the police are under fire from snipers. In a hamlet I visited in the Drenica hills, frightened Albanians told me they cannot leave. 'If we pass the police checkpoint they'll arrest us and say we're terrorists,' an Albanian named Agim said. A crowd of peasant farmers gathered around him to tell their tales of woe and fear.



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