Reburials

Last week I read of the movement of killed Kosovar Albanians to be reburied in mass unmarked graves in Serbia. I felt deeply saddened for the victims, sickened to know there are such people that decide to do this and arrange it and physically ill that I am in such a place that this could happen.
"When NATO launched air strikes to stop the carnage, hundreds of bodies of Kosovars were dug up and transported over 320 kilometer (200 miles) to three locations in central Serbia and reburied in mass graves to cover up the killings from the invading alliance troops."

Now there are more exhumations in Kosovo, but this time it is families moving their loved ones remains to new homes in Serbia for fear of the graves being desecrated should independance be granted.
"Dozens of Serb families are exhuming their dead, reflecting the deep mistrust and unhealed scars of war that bedevil Western efforts to forge a multiethnic society in Kosovo."

"Most of Kosovo's Serbs fled after NATO bombing stopped Slobodan Milosevic's brutal 1998-99 crackdown on separatists. An estimated 10,000 ethnic Albanians were killed, more than 1 million lost their homes, and 2,000 are still missing.

When the war ended, some Albanians sought to avenge their dead by targeting Serbs. About 200,000 Serbs and other minorities fled, and only about 100,000 remain, most in small, isolated enclaves." iht.com

There are days when you read so much sad and depressing news about a place you are working in, and come up against such difficult political situations that set back your program over and over again, that its hard to find a reason to continue, hard to continue thinking that things can get better, and if so whether you can actually be a part of that improvement. But we have to think it or why else are we here? Right?