This is a selection of photographs, many previously unpublished, that Alan Chin took during 1998-99 in Kosovo on freelance assignment for the New York Times.

The text at right is excerpted from an email diary that Mr. Chin kept while photographing.

                     

All images and text copyright © 2000 Alan Chin.

   
                                                         
 

KRAJKOVO, KOSOVO, 25 October: Hasime Elshane cries before the body of her son, Shemsi, 11, who was killed the day before by a Serb sniper while chopping wood with his father, Rashit, the man at right. The funeral came under fire as well.


            

DRAGOBILE, KOSOVO, 29 October 1998: The family of a KLA soldier, killed by a Serb booby-trap, hold a wake in their home. His funeral later that day was attended by a parade of a hundred KLA fighters, their largest public appearance in several months.

  

KOSOVO, February 1999: The blood of a Serb civilian killed by the KLA.

  

BUKOS, KOSOVO, 23 February 1999: In her living room, Dragica Milosevic stands vigil over the body of her son, Mirko, who was killed by the KLA outside the house.

  

STUDENCANE, KOSOVO, 25 February 1999: Kosovo Albanian fighters of the KLA.

  UROSEVAC, KOSOVO, 10 March 1999: A relative with the bodies of two KLA fighters killed by the Yugoslav army.  

BLACE, MACEDONIA--KOSOVO BORDER, 3 April 1999: Ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo struggle to receive a trickle of humanitarian aid. Tens of thousands of Kosovars were denied entry by the Macedonian government, and remained in the squalid conditions of the "no man's land" between the two borders for several weeks.

 

BLACE, MACEDONIA, 6 April: Ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo take a last look through a bus window at the makeshift camp in which they had spent the last week under difficult conditions. They are being moved to a NATO-constructed transit camp with far better facilities.

   PRISTINA, KOSOVO, 13 June 1999: British paratroopers rest in a destroyed store on their first evening in Kosovo.   NEAR UROSEVAC, KOSOVO, 13 June 1999: Yugoslav army soldiers take a break as they withdraw from Kosovo as part of the ceasefire agreement that also ended NATO airstrikes and allowed KFOR to deploy.   VUCITRN, KOSOVO, 24 June 1999: Kosovar Albanians burn and loot a Serb neighborhood in Vucitrn. French KFOR soldiers never arrived at the scene.