This paper has been excerpted and modified from the forthcoming book Refuge from Hate "Te ikur nga urrejtja" or Albania/Shqiperi - Kosovo/a The Refugee Crisis and its Aftermath by Elsa Ballauri and Theodore S. Orlin to be published by Syracuse University Press. Its reflects events through December 2000 and includes impressions from recent visits to Prishtina including site visits in October and December 2000. The paper reviews the human rights crisis surrounding the Serbian policy of ethnic cleansing, the resulting refugee crisis, the NATO intervention, the present UN governance of this region and some current efforts to create a human rights regime in this troubled region..