complicated simplicity

We crept into the infamous land of Kosovo by bus from Montenegro, a land recently recovered from the grips of war. We made our way to the capital city, Pristina, and you could feel the fear in the city. A fear of violence, a fear of another war erupting, a fear of everything. It was eerie, it was quiet.

Photos in memorium, bulletpocked walls, bombshelled buildings littered the city patrolled by the United Nations, the men in blue keeping the fragile peace in this city about to exercise their first acts of democracy in a referendum.

 

This is a city looking for freedom and peace it has always wanted. A city living in limbo, a city of people who want want to live their lives peacefully without any more fighting. Will it get the peace it has been searching for?

See the full album of Pristina, Kosovo.

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