Kosovo ethnic divide eases as Muslim cares for elderly Serb

Kosovo Albanian Fadil Rama, right, holds a cup of water for a Kosovo Serb Blagica Dicic a lonely 92-year old woman in a remote village of Vaganesh, Kosovo on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, abandoned by all her former ethnic Serb neighbors. Blagica Dicic is in failing health, and is the only resident of a remote ethnic Serb minority village in the mountains of eastern Kosovo that’s been abandoned by all its other inhabitants, even her own children, but Fadil Rama, 54, comes from the other side of Kosovo’s bitter ethnic divide. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo Albanian Fadil Rama seen through damaged wooden fence in the deserted village carrying groceries to the only resident Kosovo Serb Blagica Dicic a lonely 92-year old woman in a remote village of Vaganesh, Kosovo on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, abandoned by all her former ethnic Serb neighbors. Neighbor Blagica Dicic, is 92 and in failing health, in the remote ethnic Serb minority village in the mountains of eastern Kosovo but Fadil Rama comes from the other side of Kosovo’s bitter ethnic divide, being a member of Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority and Rama said he saw nothing strange in helping an elderly Serb. “I will never leave her on her own,” he said. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo Albanian Fadil Rama, right, lights the wooden stove for a Kosovo Serb Blagica Dicic a lonely 92-year old woman in a remote village of Vaganesh, Kosovo on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, abandoned by all her former ethnic Serb neighbors. Blagica Dicic is in failing health, and is the only resident of a remote ethnic Serb minority village in the mountains of eastern Kosovo that’s been abandoned by all its other inhabitants, even her own children, but Fadil Rama, 54, comes from the other side of Kosovo’s bitter ethnic divide. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo Albanian Fadil Rama, right, holds a cup of water for a Kosovo Serb Blagica Dicic a lonely 92-year old woman in a remote village of Vaganesh, Kosovo on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, abandoned by all her former ethnic Serb neighbors. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo Albanian Fadil Rama choses products from his shop to be sent to a Kosovo Serb Blagica Dicic a lonely 92-year old woman in a remote village of Vaganesh, Kosovo on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, abandoned by all her former ethnic Serb neighbors. Neighbor Blagica Dicic, is 92 and in failing health, in the remote ethnic Serb minority village in the mountains of eastern Kosovo but Fadil Rama comes from the other side of Kosovo’s bitter ethnic divide, being a member of Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority and Rama said he saw nothing strange in helping an elderly Serb. “I will never leave her on her own,” he said. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo Albanian Fadil Rama, right, speaks to a Kosovo Serb Blagica Dicic a lonely 92-year old woman in a remote village of Vaganesh, Kosovo on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. Blagica Dicic is in failing health, and is the only resident of a remote ethnic Serb minority village in the mountains of eastern Kosovo that’s been abandoned by all its other inhabitants, even her own children, but Fadil Rama, 54, comes from the other side of Kosovo’s bitter ethnic divide. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo Serb Blagica Dicic a lonely 92-year old woman in a remote village of Vaganesh, regularly visited by Kosovo Albanian neighbor Fadil Rama bringing food and groceries in Kosovo on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, abandoned by all her former ethnic Serb neighbors. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Abandoned households seen in the deserted village of Vaganesh, the only and lone resident a 92 year old Blagica Dicic still living here on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, abandoned by all her former ethnic Serb neighbors. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo Albanian Fadil Rama chops fire wood for a Kosovo Serb Blagica Dicic a lonely 92-year old woman in a remote village of Vaganesh, Kosovo on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, abandoned by all her former ethnic Serb neighbors. Neighbor Blagica Dicic, is 92 and in failing health, in the remote ethnic Serb minority village in the mountains of eastern Kosovo but Fadil Rama comes from the other side of Kosovo’s bitter ethnic divide, being a member of Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority and Rama said he saw nothing strange in helping an elderly Serb. “I will never leave her on her own,” he said. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo Albanian Fadil Rama carries fire wood for a Kosovo Serb Blagica Dicic a lonely 92-year old woman in a remote village of Vaganesh, Kosovo on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, abandoned by all her former ethnic Serb neighbors. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo Albanian Fadil Rama walking in the deserted village carries groceries to a Kosovo Serb Blagica Dicic a lonely 92-year old woman in a remote village of Vaganesh, Kosovo on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, abandoned by all her former ethnic Serb neighbors. Neighbor Blagica Dicic, is 92 and in failing health, in the remote ethnic Serb minority village in the mountains of eastern Kosovo but Fadil Rama comes from the other side of Kosovo’s bitter ethnic divide, being a member of Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority and Rama said he saw nothing strange in helping an elderly Serb. “I will never leave her on her own,” he said. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)