June 13-14, 1999 -- THE 82ND
AIRBORNE ARRIVES IN UROSEVAC, AND GUARDS EVIDENCE OF SERB
ETHNIC CLEANSING.
Serb soldiers in a truck pass by a column of U.S. soldiers from the 82nd
airborne division as they walk along the road near Urosevac, Kosovo Sunday,
June 13, 1999. U.S. soldiers, part of a NATO peacekeeping force, set up
a camp in the area as Serbs forces continued to withdraw from the region
United States 82nd airborne division Sergeant Ron Panyko from Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania stands guard as a truckload of Serb soldiers drives by near
Urosevac, Kosovo Sunday, June 13, 1999, where the 82 airborne division
was setting up camp. NATO troops crossed into Kosovo Saturday as part of
a peacekeeping mission to pave the way for the return of hundreds of thousands
of ethnic Albanian refugees who have fled the Yugoslav province since March.
Soldiers from the 82nd were in the process of setting up a camp in the
area and had orders not to let Serb forces pass by with weapons.
A U.S. soldier from the 82nd airborne division, left, supervises the disarming
of a Serb soldier as others lay down their weapons by the roadside near
Urosevac, in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo.
A
U.S. soldier from the 82nd Airborne division supervises the disarming of
Serb soldiers, right, by the roadside near Urosevac.
U.S. soldiers from the 82nd airborne division talk with Serb soldiers .
U.S. soldiers from the 82nd airborne division turn away a Kosovo Liberation
Army fighter from the gates of the Kacanik cemetery.
A
U.S. soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division marks off an area in the Kacanik
cemetery.
U.S. soldiers from the 82nd airborne division leave the Kacanik cemetery.
