Kosovar gypsies suffer post-war poverty

“WE DON’T have enough firewood for the winter, so at the moment we’re collecting old plastic bottles to burn. We have to survive the winter somehow.”

These are the words of Desim Linaani, 35, the village leader of the gypsy community in the Kosovar Albanian village of Gorjne Gadinjle.

Surrounded by other men and children from the village, Desim is pleading with Ed Holland, 26, a captain in C company of the Irish K4 contingent to help secure more aid for his people from the local administration.