About 2 million. More than 600,000 ethnic Albanians are refugees, illegal immigrants or guest workers in Germany and Switzerland.
Serbian nationalism begins to fray Yugoslavia's post-Tito power sharing.
Ethnic Albanians set up a shadow government and Albanian-language schools. The killings of civilians bring threats of NATO air strikes. Milosevic makes an 11th-hour deal, allowing for deployment of Western observers. At 4,203 square miles, Kosovo is slightly larger than northern New Jersey.