Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia-Montenegro - Serbs and ethnic Albanians traded heavy gunfire Wednesday across the Ibar River, killing at least six people and wounding almost 300 in the worst outbreak of violence in this ethnically divided city since a bus bombing three years ago. ...Sometimes reality breaks through, sometimes I get reminded in a very visceral way of the existence of the depths of hatred, not even for identifiable individuals, but against whole groups of people, of which the human heart is capable, a level of sustained rage beyond my experience and comprehension. This is not even the mind of a political terrorist, who thinks they are acting on behalf of some cause, this is wanting to maim, to kill, to inflict suffering and pain and death, on another simply because they are another.
Clashes between Serbs and ethnic Albanians were also reported in several other towns in the region. ...
[N]ear Pristina, hundreds of ethnic Albanians broke through barricades erected by U.N. police and NATO-led peacekeepers to march on the Serb village of Caglavica. U.N. spokeswoman Angela Joseph said there were reports that hand grenades had been thrown and that two Serb houses were on fire. ...
In a live radio broadcast from Caglavica, an unidentified witness said people were attacking each other with sticks and stones in village streets, amid the sound of explosions and gunfire.
In the western village of Belopolje, ethnic Albanians drove out Serb residents and set fire to their houses, Joseph said. And in Pec, 50 miles west of Pristina, ethnic Albanians had attacked the regional U.N. headquarters and damaged U.N. vehicles.
Sometimes the reality breaks through. I so much regret when it does. Because at those times I just want to give up....
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