"We were there to investigate allegations of the targeting of the medical community and medical infrastructure by the Serbian military," Leaning said.
Even at that time, the situation was tense.
"It was clearly a people under occupation [with] a certain low level of harassment and low level of terrorism," says Barron, who is an instructor in psychiatry.
They returned in March to the Kosovar cities of Pristina, Pec and Prizren to hold several daylong seminars on medical ethics at the request of a number of doctors.
"They said it would be helpful for them to have a review of international law and medical ethics and dealing with terrorism and psychological trauma," Barron says. "Their sense of what was normal and proper in medicine had been so affected by the military occupation."
When they returned to Kosovo in March just before the NATO airstrikes began, the change in the atmosphere was astounding.
"In March, it had ratcheted up with troops and tanks all over and Serbian troops on high alert," Barron says.
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