Serb forces retaliate by flattening a village.
This time they took the lives of more than 40 ethnic Albanians, including many elderly and one child. Until the massacre in the village of Racak, the West was relying on 700 unarmed monitors who, under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation, have tried to keep a shaky cease-fire from sliding into renewed war. On Monday, Serbia ordered the expulsion of William Walker, the top American diplomat in the region, after Mr. Walker blamed the Serbs for the killings. Meanwhile, the American envoy, Christopher Hill, has been traveling between Belgrade and Pristina, Kosovo's capital, in an attempt to secure a deal between the two sides. Both the Serbs and the Albanians, however, have taken a hard line.