Return to Kosovo

NATO planes start an air offensive against Serbian forces 24th March 1999. Slobodan Milosevic and his army are committing acts of ethnic cleansing against the Albanian population. During this period of instability the United Nations (UN) are trying to negotiate a peace process in order of bringing the violence within Kosovo to an end. On 10th June 1999 the UN publish the United Nations resolution 1244, the political policy granting the ground troops of NATO entry into the war-torn province. Two days later on 12th June 1999, I entered Kosovo driving a Challenger One main battle tank, at 17 the youngest soldier in NATO. I have returned, eight years later, to explore Kosovo through the perspective of memory and personal feelings. I re-visited the province finding people and places that I remember, using personal snapshots of people that I photographed in 1999 to aid me in locating key individuals that I met while serving.