They did not know what fate would befall them and if they were ever going to see their families again. During the past weeks. Kosovo has witnessed carnage and bloodshed unseen in Europe for almost.fifty years. These events are the culmination of a decadelong campaign of terror and bloodshed in the Balkansand it has created a refugee crisis unparalleled in recent years. Sergeant Ramirez was in Yugoslavia because his country asked him to go. He was there to protect our promise that the civilized world will never again do nothing in the face of genocide. ethnic cleansing. mass rape and rampant violence to thousands of innocent people.