Gani Sejdiu hopes his wife and 10-year-old son are in a refugee camp. He spends his evenings, he says, "glued to the television", looking for a familiar face.
The teacher from Pristina has been in Ireland for eight months, having left his home when he saw that "the situation was deteriorating very rapidly.
"Everything was telling you it was going to come to something big, something tragic, though no-one, even the experts who are working there, could have foreseen this tragedy of biblical proportions.
"Leaving my home was the biggest decision of my life. And no, I am not getting news from anyone, but I hope they are safe. I hope they have got out. I hope they are somewhere else. Imagine leaving behind your wife and son, your sister, parents, niece."
He explains that like most of the other 140 Kosovans who have arrived in Ireland over the past 12 months, he was actively involved in anti-Milosevic politics. After the massacre of 60 civilians in the town of Prekaz early last year, he feared for his life.
"After that everyone wondered where it would stop, knew that it was just the beginning - and I was terrified."
Since arriving in Ireland he has sought to heighten awareness of the situation in the former Yugoslav republic. He has helped found Dardania, or the Kosovar Solidarity Group. There have been several meetings with government, though his pleas that the Government lobby the international community to move in ground troops, he says, were dismissed as politically impossible.
The mood in the Kosovan community here, he says, is one of numbed despair.
"No one else would be able to talk to you like I am now. There is no trust anymore. I watch the news with Irish friends, and they are in tears and I don't cry. I am numb now, can't cry any more.
"The help there has been from the Irish people is greatly appreciated. But I must say that I do not think the refugees should be dispersed around the world.
"Maybe if they were taken from the camps to countries for a short time. But is that realistic? There is a danger that they would end up staying for years and never go back. That would just make Milosevic feel safe. It would be ethnically cleansing Kosovo for good.
"Already, 1.1 million of the Kosovars have left, from a population of 1.7 million . . .
"The solution to the refugees' misery is to make Kosovo a safe place for them to live." This, he continues, will require the deployment of ground troops.
"They must move ground troops in, and the sooner the better. If not now, they will have to eventually, while there is still a people and a country there to fight for."
He warns: "Montenegro, I think, could well be the next Kosovo."
