Blood feud cripples lives in Kosovo
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GRACKE — Outside the Neziri family compound in this Kosovo hamlet there is no sign of life, not even a sound indicating that 45 relatives with seven children are holed up inside afraid of a vendetta attack.
His eyes darting from side to side, the head of the clan, Haki Neziri, 77, emerged cautiously from the house to receive AFP journalists.
“My family has not been able to go out for 17 months. Men and women cannot go to work on the field. Children cannot go to school,” he complained bitterly.
The Neziris fear any one of them could be shot by members of the rival Veseli family in an “honor killing” to avenge a murder, in this ethnic Albanian area that broke away from Serbia in 2008..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110714com3.html
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