If it goes on much longer, Kosovo threatens to become a depopulated charnel-house.

ECONOMIST: Victim of Serbia--or NATO?

Could Dante have walked beside me across that dreadful place, which had been transformed by human agency from a peaceful countryside to a garbage heap, a cesspool, and a charnel-house combined, he would never have written his 'Inferno, ' because the hell of his imagination would have seemed colourless and tame.

WSJ: Reflections on Champagne