Kosovo 1999 : The Looting of Mjalic
In the spring of 1999 we watch the final episode of the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. It is the Kosovo Albanians' turn to want to seccede from Serbia. The Kosovo Liberation Army sets up barricades and takes control of whole sways of territory, where Albanians are a majority. The Serbian army moves in to try to prevent yet one more province -one which it considers the historical epicentre of the Serb nation- from breaking away. Both sides chase each other from their homes and villages, which are ethnically cleansed. We witness how a group of Serb paramilitaries enter the village of Mjalic, not far from the capital Pristina, loot it and burn it to the ground.
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