August 05, 2008
Kosovo lives: Albanian in Mitrovica
Posted by: Thinker : Category: News
In the second of five pieces by BBC journalists examining life in Kosovo today, Nick Thorpe meets one of the few remaining Albanian families in northern Mitrovica. On the table in his front room, Driton Gerguri opens a red album, like a family heirloom. “Other kids collected stamps, but I collected these,” he says proudly. Page after page of carefully mounted badges and tie pins, from sporting events and factories, anniversaries and celebrations. Each is like a crumb of the common life that people of different nationalities used to live in the old Yugoslavia. Taken together, the album is like a carefully preserved cake of a bygone world. The badges are relics of a country that disappeared in…
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