Nato wants camps there closed because they are overcrowded and within range of Serbian artillery.The camps around Korca are being built by British Army engineers and pioneers headed by Brigadier Tim Cross, commander of the new 101 Logistic Brigade. They will withstand the winter, an admission that a long military and diplomatic campaign lies ahead.Humanitarian experts have praised the vision and care shown in their construction. The British soldiers and aid agencies have had more time to work than the agencies that dealt with the initial exodus from Kosovo. These camps are intended to bring a little dignity and privacy to the lives of the dispossessed.At Erseke, fresh water comes down the mountains and the sheltered accommodation is divided into family units. Tents are not in regimented rows, but in clusters around squares to give more of a feel of village life.

There is no central kitchen to cause the long, grim queues waiting to be fed. Families will prepare their own food.Ian Loring, a church aid worker, helped to design the project. “Hopefully, the family units will give them privacy,” he said.. TEN YEARS ago, China’s students raised the Goddess of Democracy in Tiananmen Square amid calls for political reform.

Last month, after Nato’s bombing of China’s embassy in Belgrade, a very different effigy of the Statue of Liberty was paraded by undergraduates through Peking, one brandishing missiles and surrounded by banners reading “Nazi Clinton”

Two student protests, 10 years apart. Two generations of top students, stirred by different emotions.
As China approaches Friday’s sensitive 10th anniversary of the 4 June Tiananmen massacre, 25-year-old Xiao Wu, a postgraduate student at the elite Peking University, has no personal memory of 1989. “But as I took part in the anti-Nato protests, I began to understand why the students did that [in 1989] There was passion then, concern about the country. But they were not very successful.”His classmate, Xiao Li, also 25, agrees: “Originally [in 1989] the students’ intentions were good. But as time went on, the direction of the movement was shifted.

Finally, students were responsible for some of the violent actions.”Could they envisage taking part in another 1989-style “pro-democracy” protest movement? Xiao Wu says: “The situation is now different. In the past 10 years, people have been making great progress in living conditions and fighting corruption.”Xiao Li adds: “I think most people are quite satisfied with our government now.” The government’s propaganda line these days is that without the “timely and resolute measures” in 1989, China would not have enjoyed the past decade of economic growth. “That is not only the propaganda, it is also the people’s belief,” insists Xiao Li.Compare this with the depth of feeling from one 29-year-old former Peking University student, who took part in the 1989 protests. After the shooting started, she was kept indoors by terrified parents. “I was glued to the TV, witnessing how shameless the government could be,” she says “They said snow was black and coal was white.