Eddy van Wessel Photography, UCK - Kosovo
Kosovo - UCK / KLA
All pictures 1999 © Eddy van Wessel
Across the Padesh border, in Kosovo, the UCK is in control
Sneaking through the forest to the Terrossa front (North of Bajram Curri)
Abandoned buildings just over the Albanian/Kosovo border
UCK took over a former Serbian command post
UCK soldier in a building bombed by NATO
UCK commander explains today's tactical movements to a sniper
Front line Padesh TF1, UCK soldiers point to a Serbian position
Waiting for this morning's instructions,
next to the abandoned farm where we spent the night
Taking a break
Nice soldiers salute me goodbye from a place heavily shelled by Serbs,
where they have to stay behind
Moving through heavy forest gives us good camouflage
against the Serbs we've spotted in the area
A soldier with his weapon and ammunition
Pointing a weapon the same
way the opposite site does to you
During heavy rainfall new UCK troops move into the mountains
Fresh soldiers march into the mountains for hours through the rain
A sniper clears the area through his telescope, with a colleague to back him up
Spotting the enemy from a front line bunker in Kosovo
Close to enemy territory
UCK soldiers using farmers transport
The soldier who brought me to the first camp with an UCK poster on his windscreen
Soldier with a shotwound brought into Bajram Curri hospital.
They travelled 4 hours through the mountains to get there.
Many men didn't survive the trip
When real lucky,
a chopper from Tirana hospital arrives to take one heavy wounded to Tirana.
Since there are not many flights to Tirana,
choices have to be made, who has to stay behind
At Morina border crossing,
an Albanian soldier talks about the NATO bombs falling at the border
As he was close to several bunkers bombed by NATO,
he suffers from severe ear damage.
At Tirana airport a Dutch commando sleeps under a wing of their helicopter
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