CNN's Alessio Vinci spent years reporting from the Balkans, and was Belgrade Bureau Chief from 1999 to 2001. Here he explains the background story of Kosovo's looming independence.
Kosovo's dream to become independent dates back decades, but only after NATO intervened militarily almost a decade ago did ethnic Albanians begin to feel their dream could become true.
I spent many months in Kosovo before, during and after the 1999 NATO bombing campaign that drove Serb forces out. In fact I was in Pristina when the first bombs began to hit targets in Serbia and Kosovo, in the early hours of March 24, 1999. 
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