The only explanation from ethnic Albanian villagers is that the people who did it came from somewhere else.

That village, Bukos, is no longer mixed, because after the killing, Serbian security forces moved in and caused the Albanian villagers to flee.

A4 Fleeing Macedonia's Offensive Thousands of ethnic Albanian villagers fled their homes on foot this week from a government offensive against rebels in the northern hills.

A few miles west, a group of ethnic Albanian villagers stood waiting for a bus outside the village of Stanovac.

Later, Szaniszló covered the Kosovo war in Serbia, interviewing Albanian villagers and political leaders.

Yet ethnic Albanian villagers who have fled Brest and Gusince put blame for the fighting on the government's attempt to bring in the police.

They have been accused of starting firefights at night around several frontline villages and harassing ethnic Albanian villagers by day.

Axhaika's men, all ethnic Albanian villagers from his region, say they agree.

Some 100,000 people, mostly ethnic Albanian villagers, have been displaced since the conflict erupted.

The so-called government in exile for Kosovo today called on ethnic Albanian villagers in Kosovo to defend themselves against Serb attacks.