For Kosovo’s ethnic Albanians, Slobodan Milosevic came to personify the brutality and destruction that befell them in the 1990’s, during his campaign to rid the province of separatists.

Nato peacekeepers and UN police regrouped throughout Kosovo today to put down rioting and violence that left eight dead and hundreds injured in one of the bloodiest days since the end of the Kosovo war in 1999.

A Muslim, who served with the Yugoslav army in Kosovo, today described the slaughter of civilians and said his brigade commander ordered his men ‘‘not to leave any survivors.’’