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Pastimes : Kosovo -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yaacov who wrote (7488)	5/8/1999 6:58:00 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Excellent logic Yaacov. Because Russia and China are degenerate countries we can be one too!

To: Yaacov who wrote (7488)	5/8/1999 8:35:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

KLA's teenage fighters search for families 01:31 p.m May 08, 1999 Eastern By Linda Spahia QATRAM, Albania, May 8 (Reuters) - Dressed in smart black uniforms and sporting baseball caps adorned with the Kosovo Liberation Army black-eagle emblem, the two teenaged boys looked as though they were playing at soldiers. ''I am 17,'' Bashkim, smoking a cigarette, told Reuters. But his mother, Gjylsime, proud and worried at the same time after not seeing her son for nearly a year, contradicted him. ''He is only 15. He lied about his age because otherwise the army would not have him,'' she said. The two teenaged cousins had spent most of a week-long leave from KLA active service searching for their families, turned into refugees in Albania by the war in Kosovo. Bashkim and Blerim Bytyci say they have been soldiers for nine months in the KLA's fight for an independent Kosovo and were visiting family in a refugee camp near Korca, some 100 kms (60 miles) southeast of Tirana. Bashkim and Blerim had been on leave for several days when they finally found their families in the camp near Korca on Thursday. Their families had been driven out of Kosovo by Serb forces together with several hundred thousand other ethnic Albanians in the Serb province since NATO's air strikes on Yugoslavia, which started in March. On Saturday, the two cousins would be returning to their unit in Kosovo through a crossing point near the border town of Bajram Curri in the mountainous north, Bashkim said. He said that he underwent basic military training for eight months in Albania and had been sent to the front in neighbouring Kosovo just one month ago in the area of Koshare Batusha, near Djakovica. The boys said they left their home in the Kosovo village of Malisheva last year to become recruits in KLA training camps in Albania. They followed in the footsteps of Bashkim's father, Banush, who had joined the KLA earlier and whose fate was unknown. ''The boys never asked for permission,'' said Kumrie, mother of 16-year-old Blerim. ''They followed an older friend who had made the trip to Albania before and went to join the KLA. ''Blerim is doing the right thing. He should fight for the freedom of his country, so we all go back home one day,'' said Kumrie, 38, a mother of four. ''I wish I could join my son,'' said Blerim's father, Muharrem Bytyci, a 50-year-old farmer. ''But once my brother left, I am the only male adult around.'' Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.