There are fears of a new refugee crisis in Kosovo, with the growing prospect of new fighting between the Kosovan Liberation Army and the Serbs.

Ben Brown visits Kosovan refugees who fear renewed war in central Europe

In last year's fighting between the Serbs and the Kosovo Liberation Army 250,000 ethnic Albanian refugees fled their homes, and hid in the hillsides. Many returned in the autumn, after an uneasy truce.

None of the refugees who were hiding in the hills and the mountains of Kosovo are up there any longer.

The delicate truce means they have been able to go back to their villages, but they know their ordeal may not be over. Money from international aid has helped them rebuild but the trouble is they fear the Serbs may be back before too long.

Children huddle reading in a cowshed - sporadic shooting stops them from going to school

The Rahman family came back to their house to find it burned down, but in their case no-one is helping them rebuild it. So now they are staying across the yard in a tiny cow shed, their new home. Three generations of the family, 12 people in all, have no choice but to live where their cattle used to.

They were refugees for three months last year but they say that life is little better for them now, even though they are back in their village:

"This is no life," says Zelije Rahman. "Can you imagine living like this? It's like we're dead. We have no food, no drink, no clothes. They burned everything we had. I never dreamed I would have to live like this. "

A man uses aid money to fix his house - but he knows it may not last

Everyone here knows that what these people really need is not the help of the aid workers but peace and tranquility. But there has been precious little sign of that.

Whenever fresh fighting flares up here, as it did over Christmas, thousands more people are suddenly made homeless.

Not only ethnic Albanians but also Serbs. There are innocent victims on both sides of the Kosovo tragedy.