She is champing to get back to the frontline where she has been working for several months with the student-based resistance movement, Otpor, which sparked the first major protests against Slobodan Milosevic's rule this spring and summer. For the first time we have young people without any nationalistic views. They represent something new, hopeful, innocent, and with no burden of responsibility for the last 10 years. Several hundred members of Otpor have been questioned by Serbian police and briefly detained this year. Some have had to go into hiding.
Ordinary people refuse to think about next week.
They just want to keep up this atmosphere of celebration. Milosevic is trying to buy time and decide what to do. He is surprised, angry and scared, and he may use force. Long before the Kosovo crisis reached a head with Nato's intervention, Ms Kandic and her small team of human rights workers regularly visited Kosovo to compile evidence of abuse by Serb police and Albanian freedom-fighters. They were almost the only Serbs who took an interest in atrocities by Serb forces.