Thousands of ethnic Albanians attended the funerals at Bela Crkva, south-western Kosovo, of more than 60 massacred villagers, as Serb villagers living nearby distanced themselves from the atrocity.
Mourners at the funeral walked past the old men of the village many of whom wore white shawls, then past the adults and children holding photographs of their parents, siblings or children killed in the March 25th massacre.
The women sat on the grass a little behind them, many of them weeping. All the village children, carrying large wreaths of dried flowers, then formed a procession in front of the school.
Earlier, Scotland Yard investigators examined the bodies of seven children among the victims, aged between one and 10 years old. Serb police and paramilitaries murdered 64 villagers, shooting many of them at point-blank range.
The report filed by Scotland Yard experts will support one count of the charge of crimes against humanity already lodged against President Slobodan Milosevic by the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague.
Less than 20 km away in Orahovac, Serbs there stressed they had nothing to do with the killings and complained they were now afraid to go out into the Albanian parts of the village.
"We have nothing to blame ourselves about," said one villager speaking for many of his fellow Serbs. "The guilty ones were the army, the police."
In Pristina yesterday, British military police rescued two Serb women from a fire in their building that appeared to have been started deliberately.
Other Serbs in Kosovo Polje, south-west of Pristina, tried to disassociate themselves from the crimes committed against ethnic Albanians, in the hope of avoiding a forced exodus.
According to UN figures, 71,900 Serbs have fled Kosovo since the departure of Yugoslav forces and the arrival of Kfor peacekeeping troops. Some have since returned, if not always willingly.
Families have told of having fled southern Kosovo ahead of returning Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) fighters, only to be turned back by the Yugoslav authorities in central Serbia.
They are now living the transitory existence their former ethnic Albanian neighbours had to endure during the conflict. They too are coming to terms with the loss of friends and relatives, killed during Albanian reprisal attacks.
Many Serbs complain of having been abandoned by Kfor troops and only trust the Russian troops to protect them. After talks in Moscow between NATO officials and Russian defence ministry officials, the delayed deployment of Russian peacekeepers can now continue. Meanwhile, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Ms Sadako Ogata, arrived in Kosovo yesterday, stopping in Pristina, Prizren and Pec for talks with Serb and Albanian refugees and Kfor officials.
Ms Ogata also flew over the devastated city of Djakovica, en route to Pec, where she went to neighbourhoods which had suffered "almost total destruction," according to Mr Ron Redmond, spokesman for the UNHCR.
In Prizren, she saw Serb families who had sought shelter in an Orthodox monastery, while in Pec she spoke to Albanians who were "living in rubble" in tents provided by the UNHCR, Mr Redmond said.
He added that the visit "was very enlightening" for the UN commissioner.