Serb police are prepared for the renewed outbreak of fighting RELATED VIDEO CNN's Nic Robertson reports on one family's trouble in Kosovo Windows Media 28K 56K

January 3, 1999
Web posted at: 11:37 p.m. EST (0437 GMT)

PODUJEVO, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- With no end in sight to the political dispute over the Serbian province of Kosovo and a renewed outbreak of fighting, people on both sides of the ethnic divide are unsure about the future.

But for ethnic Serbs in the disputed province, outnumbered 9-to-1 by ethnic Albanians, fear is palpable, and they are no longer convinced Serbian authorities can protect them.

CNN's Nic Robertson visited with a Serbian couple who have chosen to stay in their uneasy home.