General News, 1st prize
Yannis Behrakis
Reuters
Reuters
01 January, 1999
January - February. The wife of a Kosovo Liberation Army soldier faints during his funeral. Early in the year, conflict resumed after fragile truce, causing another wave of refugees. In mid-January, 45 ethnic Albanians were killed during a Serb offensive on the village of Racak. Later in the month in Rogovo, west of Priština, 24 ethnic Albanians were ambushed and shot.
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