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The Kosovo Liberation Army is showing no signs of retreating in its fight for full independence for the Yugoslav province of Kosovo.
Hundreds have died since the Serb government's crackdown on ethnic Albanian militants in February.
As clashes between K-L-A soldiers and Serb police forces continue, most recently in a six-day shootout near the town of Orahovac, ethnic Albanian guerrillas appear even more determined to their cause.
And now even ethnic Albanian women are taking up arms against the Serbs.
Recruits in the Kosovo Liberation Army, or K-L-A, are put through their paces in this valley in central Kosovo.
Some are from outlying villages, while others have returned from work in Europe and America to fight an increasingly bitter guerilla war with Serb forces.
But upon closer look, perhaps more interesting is not where these soldiers came from but who they are: women.
While the guerrilla leadership remains mostly male, many of the soldiers in training are female.
Just quite how many women are fighting in the K-L-A is impossible to say, since local commanders are either unwilling or unable to give an exact figure.
But every town and village in K-L-A hands has its contingent of young women bearing arms for the cause.
Albanian tradition has many tales of heroic females fighters going to battle alongside their menfolk.
It surprises no one here that today's generation is ready to follow in their footsteps.
It can take a little longer to teach the female recruits the ways of the battlefield, according to one regional commander:
But once they learn, he says they are considered equals on the frontline of battle with the men.
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