Two days later, Trajko's sister Stana learnt from some Albanian children from the village that Trajko had been stopped on 11 August 1998 by some KLA members, including the KLA commander for Kolovice, and taken away in a yellow van towards the village of LLukar.
Whereas the current Albanian government has tried, with diminishing success, to keep some distance from the KLA, Mr Berisha has organised pro-KLA rallies in Tirana, Albania's capital.What the KLA lacks in sophisticated weaponry, it makes up in local knowledge.
With just a few discordant voices, the KLA's regional commanders this week sacked the most hardline of their political leaders, Adem Demaci, who had hitherto persuaded the KLA to reject any compromise that would not guarantee Kosovo's eventual independence.
The KLA then popped up, for the first time in public, at the funeral of an Albanian teacher killed by police.
By bombing Serbia for not capitulating, NATO has, in effect, sided with the KLA, which remains the primary obstacle to peace.
A couple of days earlier, the alliance acknowledged that a bid by the KLA to regain control of Kosovo's western highways had failed.
Even if Mr Rugova agreed, he might not be able to control the militants of the KLA, for whom this week's deal is a sell-out.Much hinges on whether autonomy could, at a later date, lead to independence.
Radical elements of the KLA are believed to have been behind the killing in Albania last month of the "defence minister" in Mr Rugova's unrecognised "government".
But the KLA does have a hard core of experienced fighters, including veterans of the anti-Serb struggle in Bosnia.Tropoje is a good place to observe how effective Albania's ex-President Sali Berisha, a local boy made good, has been in rallying the KLA.
Some Albanians say the Serbs invented the KLA to justify repression.Growing weaker, Mr Milosevic would find it hard to compromise, even if he wanted to.
So when talks resume, probably again in France, the KLA is likely to agree to the West's proposals thus shifting the pressure back to Mr Milosevic and the Serbs.Would that leave him with any wiggle-room?
