We dare not try to reclaim it. In August last year, after the arrival of international troops, we assembled a new team and obtained new equipment. Then, in November, unknown criminals stole our clearly marked official car. The next month our broadcasting equipment, including a brand new transmitter, went missing. The building has no working lift or water.
Rats roam freely around the offices.
Radio Contact is the only local multi-ethnic media organisation in Kosovo. Radio Contact is testament to the fact that these aims are not impossible in Kosovo. Such aims are in fact not only achievable, but normal, desirable and beneficial. And it is perhaps for that very reason that Radio Contact has become a target. As the station's ratings and influence grows, it becomes an ever more painful thorn in the side of radical factions among Albanians and Serbs alike.