E-mail Exchanges
Earlier this year, a teenage girl who lives in Kosovo, began an e-mail correspondence with a California high school student. The girl, who we will call Adona, and Finnegan Hammill, have continued to correspond. They are the same age -- 16 -- and care about many of the same things -- rock music, dating, what to do after high school. But, says Finnegan, Adona's concerns are far more serious these days. Listen to and read their exchanges.

NPR Coverage
  June 28, 1999 -- Veton Surroi is the publisher of Koha Ditore, an Albanian-language daily in Kosovo. He lived in hiding in Pristina during the NATO airstrikes. Listen as All Things Considered host Noah Adams speaks to Surroi about his hopes for the future of the province.

  June 3, 1999 -- Rade Milutinovic, an economist who lost his job when the economy collapsed, is now an auto mechanic in Belgrade. Vera Jovanovic worked in marketing at at an car factory in Kargujevac. Listen as All Things Considered host Linda Wertheimer talks to Milutinovic and Jovanovic about the peace plan accepted by the Yugoslav government.

  April 26, 1999 -- Momcello Simic, a dentist in Belgrade, says he has gotten his draft notice and is preparing to join the military. Listen as he tells All Things Considered host Noah Adams how the NATO air strikes have changed life in the Yugoslav capital.

  April 20, 1999 -- Yugoslavia's closing of the border with Albania and Macedonia has forced thousands of refugees to seek shelter in the Kosovo wilderness along the frontier. Listen as Morning Edition host Bob Edwards speaks with Taulant, an ethnic Albanian in Pristina. He tried to flee the province but was forced to turn back.

   April 14, 1999 -- For the Yugoslav government's view of its relations with the West and of the peace plan proposed by Germany, listen as All Things Considered host Robert Siegel speaks with Vladislav Jovanovic, Yugoslavia's ambassador to the United Nations.

   April 8, 1999 -- Fatos Rexha, an ethnic Albanian from Pristina, says he and more than 20,000 other ethnic Albanians were forced to leave their homes one night by Serb special police forces. Rexha and his family are living now in a NATO refugee camp in Skopje, Macedonia. He says his mother is the only member of his family who was left behind. Listen as he speaks with Morning Edition host Bob Edwards.

   April 7, 1999 -- Tanya Lukic is a 22-year old Serbian college student. Listen as she describes the effect of the NATO bombings in Belgrade.

   April 6, 1999 -- NATO confirmed that at least one missile fired early Tuesday missed its target -- a military barracks in the southern Serb coal-mining town of Aleksinac. Yugoslavia's state news agency claimed that the weapon fell in a residential area, killing 12 civilians and wounding others. Listen as All Things Considered host Linda Wertheimer talks to an anonymous security guard at the hospital where most of the injured civilians were taken.

  April 6, 1999 -- Kosovo's capital, Pristina, has reportedly been emptied of its residents, and apartments and stores looted by Serb troops. Listen as Gjeragina Tuhina, an ethnic Albanian correspondent for the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting, tells All Things Considered host Robert Siegel what she experienced before leaving the city.

  April 4, 1999 -- Each refugee tells their own story of horror, but most share certain details. There have been widespread reports that Serb forces ousted families from their homes at gunpoint, sometimes robbing and beating them before herding them away from Serb territory. Reports from the area suggest that Serbian authorities there may be intent on expelling the province's entire ethnic Albanian population. There have also been repeated claims of mass killings of civilians at the hands of Yugoslav forces. Hear more as NPR's Andy Bowers talks with a refugee seeking asylum in Albania.

  April 4, 1999 -- Some 100,000 Kosovars are seeking refuge in Albania, straining the resources of what is considered Europe's poorest nation. Listen to details of the crisis as Weekend All Things Considered host Daniel Zwerdling speaks with Karen Abouzayd, Regional Representative to the United States for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

  March 29, 1999 -- The Serb government in Belgrade has said little about damage reports and casualties in Yugoslavia -- except that hundreds of civilians have been killed by NATO bombs. A statement issued by the Serb information center called the air strikes "shameful." Listen to more as university student Tanya Lukic speaks with Morning Edition host Bob Edwards about the situation in Belgrade.

  March 28, 1999 -- Yugoslav officials deny that they are oppressing ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Listen as Weekend All Things Considered host Daniel Zwerdling speaks with Yugoslavia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vladislav Jovanivic.

  March 26, 1999 -- Many of the refugees, especially women and children, have crossed the border with neighboring Macedonia to stay with friends or family. Listen as All Things Considered host Noah Adams talks with two refugees who fled to Skopje. Hear more as All Things Considered host Robert Siegel talks to a woman who is staying in Pristina with her family.

  March 25, 1999 -- For a Serbian view of the air strikes, listen as All Things Considered host Noah Adams speaks with Slobodan Sukdolak, a chemistry professor at the University of Kragujevac in Kragujevac, Serbia.

  March 24, 1999 -- According to one Belgrade professor, many people in Yugoslavia did not expect NATO to carry out its threat of air strikes. Listen as University of Belgrade Political Science Professor Dragn Samarolzic describes his view of the Yugoslav reaction to the bombing.