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Covering the Kosovo Liberation Army operations around the Kosovo border, and to be able to document frontlines action turn out to be an impossible. We started off in Tirana and the road took us to Bajram Curry a town near the border of Kosovo. It was located in the north west of Albania, totally isolated and surrounded by high mountains covered by snow. Local bandits reign in the region and every effort to photograph the KLA while conducting their operations became fruitless. We were totally ban from any media coverage. We went to the nearest border village with Kosovo to take a look of the situation there. Daily firefights had been reported to be seen against the Serbs. The Serbian army had send out small search and destroy patrols into the Albanian territory to look out for the KLA. Occasionally they will launch heavy mortar and artillery attacks. We found ourselves pin down by mortars and in middle of a firefight, in order to get out of town we had to cross a mine field. Civilians rushed out with their belongings, trying to leave the village under fire. We had hired local gunmen and Land Rovers, but they weren't anywhere to be found once the action started. I am glad that we all made it, but some KLA soldiers did not. Days later I watched as KLA volunteers from all over the world arrived at the port of Durres in Albania. I wondered how many of this young men that I photographed, will survive.
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