The ground is quiet enough to allow a reporter to provide sketches of a world waiting for trouble. PNS correspondent Terence Sheridan, a former reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, has been living and writing in the former Yugoslavia for the last eight years. Actually it's mercilessly simple. It is a nasty ethnic conflict between government forces and rebel separatists in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo, in what remains of Yugoslavia. Serb nationalists are contemptuous of Albanians, who understandably resent it.
Albanian nationalists are hellbent on uniting with neighboring Albania.
Serbian security forces attack the villages and destroy them. Civilians flee to the woods and mountains, and the KLA goes with them. On the road from Pristina, the provincial capital, going west toward the border with Albania, the two-lane blacktop is dotted with dead dogs. Wild-eyed horses run free and dazed cows, udders full, wander to and fro. At least 1,000 have been killed and more than 200,000 were left homeless in the third war in Europe in seven years.