A train that was used to ferry thousands of Albanians out of Kosovo during the 1999 NATO bombing will be made into a museum at the border crossing to remember Kosovo’s biggest exodus.
Kosovo said some 440,000 ethnic Albanians were expelled by the Serb army and police officers into what is now known as North Macedonia, the majority of them by train.
An old diesel locomotive and three passenger carriages used in 1999 are already in place and will become part of the exhibit that the government expects to open later next year.
As part of the 20th anniversary commemorations, dozens of victims who took the journey went back to the Bllace border crossing, where the Kosovo Red Cross had replicated life in the make-shift tented settlements that sprang up around the border at the time.
