Over the weekend, a U.N. team became the first international observers to visit Kosovo. Their extraordinary journey, shared by an Associated Press reporter, provided chilling, firsthand confirmation. You can drive for miles in Kosovo and not see anyone in the lush, green land edged with mountains. Blasted by heat, red tile roofs have caved in on charred timbers. Some still smell of smoke.
Fields lie fallow.
Untended cattle roam at will. Horses stray onto highways. Streets echo with emptiness. Much of Djakovica is wrecked, a ghost town. The only sound is the cawing of crows under a gray sky.