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The three women thought they would be left alone in Urosevac after the war because there were no men in their house
Kosovo lives: Not gone with the wind
In the fifth and final piece by BBC journalists on life in Kosovo today, Patrick Jackson meets three Slovenian-Serb women who intend to be the bane of K-For's life until they regain their ancestral home.
Their great-grandfather built Urosevac, the Nikolic daughters like to say, so how can they leave it now?
Sani (Santipa), the very image of mildness and physical slightness, beams mischievously at the memory of how she floored a US soldier with her karate skills, the day K-For came to evacuate her family.
I am not saying she is over 60, because her disabled younger sister Lili (Liljana) reminded me, when I inquired, that you must never ask a lady her age. A smile of assent crossed the mask-like face of their blind mother Dani (Daniela).
However, the soldier's commanding officer was certainly impressed by Sani's resilience, telling her she was "as tough as a Texan lady", according to Lili.
The Americans evacuated them from Urosevac (Ferizaj in Albanian) on 18 March 2004, to save them from Albanian rioters, who then destroyed the house.
But the Nikolic women have refused to join the thousands of other non-Albanians who fled (most of them in June 1999).
They argue that K-For failed to defend their property and removed them against their will, so it should take them back.
And that is how they come to be living today inside a Greek army base outside Urosevac.
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