People who were there on that day have described how they were taken to the station, where extra trains were laid on to take them into exile. Up to 60,000 people could be waiting here in terrible scenes. It's one of the strongest indications that the expulsion of the Kosovo Albanian population was systematic and planned. The town of Orahovac appears to have returned to normal. But it's the Serbs who are suffering.
Serb children live in their own enclave as virtual prisoners.
Teachers in the school that I visited described how their pupils were traumatised, finding it hard to remember lessons or even to sleep at night. At a local cafe, one of the teachers was queueing for the only opportunity to contact the outside world, a one-minute satellite phone call provided by an international charity. She used to teach Serbian to local Albanian children. Now they are too afraid even to speak to her. In the street the student cannot now even say hello to me because of other Albanian people, political people.