Australian trauma surgeon Craig Jurisevic and Mentor, a male nurse, prepare to carry medical and other supplies to the KLA in a cave 2000m up Mt Pastrik, on the Albania-Kosovo border.
The KLA's "surgical unit" in a cave on Mt Pastrik. An operating stretcher is in the middle. The sleeping bags on the far right were used as body bags.
A booby-trapped front door in a village near Kusnin, Kosovo. Serbian troops placed these devices, often obscured by shoes and foliage, in ransacked villages in an attempt to kill or wound would-be rescuers.
The May 24, 1999, article in The Stars and Stripes, in which Craig Jurisevic detailed corruption at the main hospital in Kukes, Albania.
An avenue of tents housing refugees in Kukes, Albania.
Australian trauma surgeon Craig Jurisevic headed to a war zone to treat the wounded, but ended up taking lives.
Jurisevic has just released a book on his experiences in Albania and Kosovo in 1999. Blood on My Hands: A Surgeon At War has been on the best-seller list in Australia for the past four weeks and has elicited a range of responses for its candid and controversial narrative.
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