At gunpoint, Dr Vjosa Dobruna was taken from her Centre for the Protection of Women and Children in Pristina and expelled from Kosovo. Her skill as pediatrician and trauma care specialist is even more valuable in Macedonia, where since the beginning of April she has gathered a group of women who will work with her and a new centre has been born.
"Don't make me cry," she said when asked how difficult it is in the camps . "Enough to say it is unspeakable. It is worse in Kosovo though. Terrible, terrible for those in the mountains. I wish NATO will do what they are doing very fast so that help can go to them. Those people, 265,000 of them, have been besieged by Serb forces in the mountains since Christmas '98, long before the NATO bombing began. So many more now."
"The refugees will not return without NATO," Mr Blerim Shala, editor of the Pristina-based independent weekly Zeri, said. He and the editor of yet another Pristina based-publication, MM Review, Mr Shkeizen Maliqi, were also deported at gunpoint in April having been given a very hard time. All three, who are members of the Kosovar Civil Society Leaders, are now based in Macedonia.
The two editors and Dr Dobruna and were in Brussels yesterday to meet NATO Secretary General Mr Javier Solana and the NATO ambassadors.
This Kosovan Albanian delegation was not in Brussels to ask for an end to NATO bombing but for an escalation. And these are not the kind of people one would normally think of as warlike.
Mr Shala was a member of the Kosovan delegation to the peace talks in Rambouillet and firmly believed in the accord. Mr Maliqi is a philosopher who has written several books looking at the peaceful means for dealing with conflict. Dr Dobruna says that throughout her career she has pursued two parallel interests, "one in medicine and the other in human rights and peace".
"When President Milosevic returned from Rambouillet, the government said it was a success but then things changed," Mr Shala said. "There was a paragraph he didn't like - he did not say which one - but he refused to work with it. That refusal made NATO action the only possible way. It was war between past and future.
"Our experience from Bosnia is a very strong force is needed. We "the ethnic Albanians" knew we would face very difficult times, but if NATO had started in '91, we would not now see these seas of atrocities."
The delegation says there is no possibility of making the Rambouillet agreement work now, that the Kosovans would not be prepared to go into any kind of election with the Serbs, especially if the present regime was still in power.
Reuters adds: The main frontier checkpoint between Albania and Yugoslavia was closed after 10 p.m. last night at the end of a day that saw the largest wave of refugees in nearly two weeks choking the road out of Kosovo.
Mr Ray Wilkinson, spokesman for the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, said 11,400 refugees had crossed into Albania on Friday.
Refugees pouring out of the city of Prizren, only 18 km from the border, appeared to have stopped making the journey after nightfall, he said. Mr Wilkinson said refugees in the last few carloads to cross the border had told UNHCR they believed there were still families left in Prizren who might attempt to cross this morning.