AT LEAST ONE OF THESE BABIES, LYING IN A HOSPITAL DEPRIVED OF VITAL DRUGS, WILL NOT SURVIVE THE NEXT MONTH. YET OUTSIDE 300 AID AGENCIES HAVE MILLIONS OF POUNDS TO SPEND. 
SO WHY IS THE WEST LETTING THE BABIES OF KOSOVO DIE?

by Kim Willsher and Christian Jennings
The Mail on Sunday

KOSOVO, Pristina--They lie in neat rows, wrapped in swaddling clothes and protected against the winter cold by a single blanket. Tucked under their tiny heads are typed sheets of medical notes. It's a miracle that each baby is returned to the right mother after delivery in Pristina's maternity hospital.

These are the babies of the war in Kosovo, and its most poignant legacy. They are also the future of a province still torn apart by the ethnic hatred which left thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless.

They are too young to know it but they are the lucky ones, having survived in a region where infant mortality is ten times higher than in Western Europe.

It is seven months since Nato drove out the soldiers and paramilitaries of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic who had terrorised the province's Albanian population.

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