Continuation of Alice Meads text written September 21:
" So far the war in Kosova has been in the rural areas. These kids have cousins who have fled. Grandparents hiding in the mountains. But their lives have been relatively untouched, especially since the demonstrations stopped last spring. The demonstrations when they begged for help from NATO.

Prishtine has only a three day water supply. It is filled with high-rise cement-blcok apartments and winding neighborhood streets in its older neighborhoods. There are thousands and thousands of children in Pristhine. It is a city filled for ten years with military police and soldiers. There would be no way to escape.

The seige of Pristhine would be unimaginably horrible. It would be Sarajevo all over again, but a Sarajevo without the strange, lurid romance that Sarajevo held first for Europe and then America. Of the Olympics, the famous library, the brave contingent of journalists and photographers, the incredible water tunnel. Have we forgotten the 200,000 who died in Bosnia? The dismemberment? the refugees? The enormous task of rebuilding? The enormous human cost of this destruction?

Why are we waiting in silence for the seige of Pristhine to happen? "

Alice Mead, September 21, 1998