On March 24th 1999, NATO started its bombardment campaign against the
Serbian army. This was the last act of a story full of Serbian genocide,
wars and tragedies against the countries that used to be under
Yugoslavia.
The Serbian revenge fell on the Albanian civilians of Kosovo. This was the second biggest population displacement in Europe since the Second World War.
Hundreds of Thousands of people were evicted or abandoned their homes, to go to the border checkpoints of Albania and Macedonia. The Morina border checkpoint was the door that hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanians crossed for entering Albania.
Desperate and tired people, some on foot, on tractors and carts, abandoned their homes in villages, towns and cities to escape the barbarian crime. They left behind relatives who had been lost or who had been killed, burned houses and destroyed homes.
The Kukes city and its suburbs turned into a giant refugee camp. Many were moved within the territory of Albania and welcomed in the homes of thousands of Albanian citizens.
Dictators in Serbia kept promising they would never let go of Kosovo, but history had started turning to its right place for the Albanian people. 15 years later, the Albanian people, still divided by a border checkpoint, commemorate this as the day that marked their unification.
But even more than that, it was commemorated as the day that is part of the history of Albanians, the history of Balkan and modern Europe, which had been watching the Balkan arena as a spectator for 15 years, where was taking place the biggest human tragedy since the Second World War.
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