Clashes between ethnic Albanians, seeking independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo, and the Serbian security forces, determined to suppress the movement. These confrontations took place on a civilian as well as a military level. Here, Serbian police and ethnic Albanian rioters clashed during civil disturbances in Pristina, capital of Kosovo. The protests were against increasing ethnic violence.

Clashes between ethnic Albanians, seeking independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo, and the Serbian security forces, determined to suppress the movement. These confrontations took place on a civilian as well as a military level. Here, Serbian police and ethnic Albanian rioters clashed during civil disturbances in Pristina, capital of Kosovo. The protests were against increasing ethnic violence.

An injured ethnic Albanian waves a bloody hand as he is carried away during a demonstration. Clashes between ethnic Albanians, seeking independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo, and the Serbian security forces, determined to suppress the movement, took place on a civilian as well as a military level. Here, Serbian police and ethnic Albanian rioters clashed during civil disturbances in Pristina, capital of Kosovo. The protests were against increasing ethnic violence.

Serbian police open fire during house-to-house fighting with members of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Clashes between ethnic Albanians, seeking independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo, and the Serbian security forces, determined to suppress the movement, took place on a civilian as well as a military level. The protests were against increasing ethnic violence by the Serbians.

Undertakers with gas masks remove the body of a Serb civilian, allegedly killed by ethnic Albanian rebels during clashes between ethnic Albanians, seeking independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo, and the Serbian security forces, determined to suppress the movement.

Serbian police stand guard over 200 ethnic Albanian men of military age, arrested after the village was retaken from the Kosovo Liberation Army. Clashes between ethnic Albanians, seeking independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo, and the Serbian security forces, determined to suppress the movement, took place on a civilian as well as a military level.

The bodies of ethnic Albanian children, killed during clashes between ethnic Albanians, seeking independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo, and the Serbian security forces, determined to suppress the movement.

An ethnic Albanian woman faints during the funeral of a relative, who was killed during clashes between ethnic Albanians, seeking independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo, and the Serbian security forces, determined to suppress the movement. These confrontations took place on a civilian as well as a military level.

Funeral of ethnic Albanians, killed during clashes between ethnic Albanians, seeking independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo, and the Serbian security forces, determined to suppress the movement. These confrontations took place on a civilian as well as a military level.

Mourning women at the funeral of ethnic Albanians, killed during clashes between ethnic Albanians, seeking independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo, and the Serbian security forces, determined to suppress the movement. These confrontations took place on a civilian as well as a military level.

A Serb policeman offers water to an elderly ethnic Albanian villager in Kosovo. The old man is the only resident who remained in Glodjane after Serb police retook the village from members of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Clashes between ethnic Albanians, seeking independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo, and the Serbian security forces, determined to suppress the movement, took place on a civilian as well as a military level. The protests were against increasing ethnic violence. At least 20 people - 16 Albanians and four Serbs - had been killed the previous weekend. Srdjan Ilic: 'As an Associated Press photographer in Belgrade, I covered the conflicts in the former Yugoslav republics right from the beginning: in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia, as well as the 1999 NATO-led air campaign and the fall of Milosevic. I was wounded three times in the course of my work, once in Slovenia and twice during the conflict in Kosovo, where this picture was taken. Binak Rama, the ethnic Albanian on the left, was taken to a Serbian police station in nearby Djakovica. He was released after questioning.' (World Press Photo retrospective Children's Jury exhibition, 2003)

An ethnic Albanian woman with the portrait of a relative, who was killed during clashes between ethnic Albanians, seeking independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo, and the Serbian security forces, determined to suppress the movement. These confrontations took place on a civilian as well as a military level.

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