While thousands of people have been enraged enough by the situation in Kosovo to protest violently on the streets, there are some who've seen all this before, and continue to be the quiet victims of seemingly ever changing borders.

Olivera Millic has lived in this house for 78 years. She’s never left her village but has already been a citizen of three countries and from this week she’s the citizen of a fourth.

Olivera was born in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. She grew up in the Communist Republic of Yugoslavia. Her adult years were spent in Serbia. And now she’s living out her final years in the new state of Kosovo.

She has to work in the field as hard as she did as a young girl because it’s not clear which country is responsible for paying her pension.

“I've lived my whole life in Serbia, and now they tell me I live in Kosovo. it feels very strange. They tell me my house is the first house on the new border but for me in my heart I will always be in Serbia,” Olivera Millic says.

A few metres from Olivera’s house, NATO has spent more money in the last 24 hours than she’s earned in her whole life.

The infrastructure for a new international border is in place, just hours after the previous border crossing was burnt to the ground by angry Serbs. A strong KFOR (NATO Kosovo Force) has replaced the United Nations and now controls the new Kosovo-Serbia border.

The village of Jarinje is part of the new country of Kosovo, but a local cemetery, which is a few metres walk from away, is in Serbia. So the residents who want to visit the graves of their families have to go through passport control into a completely different country.

Milan Petrovic’s father, grandfather and uncles are buried in the cemetery. He’s furious that one day it might become part of a different country. He already has to go through border controls to visit his family who live only three kilometres away.

His television’s constantly tuned to the local news and what the Belgrade government is planning to do.

“This is Serbia. it always will be. We will keep our Serbian passports. We will always be citizens of Serbia. They can never take that away from us,” Petrovic says.