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About 100,000 Serbs, out of a pre-war population twice that size, remain in the territory of Kosovo, the largest non-Albanian ethnic group in the province. While many Serbs sought refuge in Serbia and Montenegro after the withdrawal of the Yugoslav security apparatus and the establishment of the United Nations interim administration in the summer of 1999, those that did stay behind oscillate between resistance to and collaboration with the international community. Whereas the decade leading up to the international intervention was marked by the repression of the Albanian population by Serb-dominated state structures, the last four years have witnessed acts of violence and terror committed against Serbs and members of other ethnic minorities by Albanian extremists.