Obama's personal picture recalls Kosovo's escape from Blace

Souza has posted a photo of refugees from Kosovo leaving their country towards the Macedonian border in Blace.

Kosovo's “Refugees fleeing their country face resistance from Macedonian policemen at the Blace border in 1999”, he writes.

Souza recalls the time when he began his career in a small newspaper in Kansas, U.S.A. A friend of his, Mark Hinnom, was there. Together, they worked up at the post until Souza took up the post of an Assistant Photo Editor in Chicago Tribune.

Meanwhile, along the way, he says he also worked as an official photographer at the White House during Ronald Reagan's administration.

Significantly, over 150 thousand Kosovo Albanians went as refugees to northern Macedonia in refugee camps. Most of them crossed the border of Blace. Albanians have been treated badly enough during the crossing of this border by Macedonian forces.

Blace became the scene of a crisis when Macedonian authorities initially refused to accept a large number of refugees, only if given assurances that other states would help.

Today there is a museum train that remembers the departure of Albanians at war time in Blace