A TINY Kosovar baby boy called Liberation breathed his first air in Blackburn as generals attempted to force Serbs into signing a peace deal which would free his homeland.
Little Clirim Berisha was born on Saturday night at Queen's Park Hospital just two days after his mother and father Rexhep and Miradiye had arrived in Blackburn.
The couple chose the name Clirim, which translates from Albanian to the English word Liberation to signify their hopes for the future of Kosovo.
Miradiye was one of three pregnant women who came to Blackburn as part of the group of 138 Kosovars who are being housed in two former homes for the elderly at Laneside in Shorrock Lane, Mill Hill and Shadsworth House, Dunoon Drive.
Like many of the refugees, the couple speak no English and are relying on interpreters to tell the tale of how they escaped from the brutal Serb paramilitaries who forced them from their homes.
They could never have dreamed nine months ago when Miradiye found out she was pregnant that their child would be born in England.
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