From a peace loving Emina -Kolina - Zpka - Zoja -Rosie :


>>>>To Sergey, basil and Nick prick

The level on this board hit an all time low, so I see. One advantage though. We can see now who would loooove
to be in Milovevic's shoes. It's you guys!!!

Raping and killing, f**cking aninals even! How touching to see all the frustrated anger being translated in such
'manly' (DUH!) fashion. Enjoy it while you can. You fascists will be defeated, just like before.
Zoja <<<

By Zoja on Monday, May 17, 1999 - 03:18 pm:

To Milo's dearest babies


-- how many Serbs in here? All this people are stating their not. Oh , this Milo is sooo international.


When do you guys get beyond the yelling and cursing stage and really start talkung some sense?


-- who is "yelling" and "cursing" here; I see only your posts of that caracter...


From Maja everybody knows she is frigid and frustrated because she was raped at 16. Poor girl. If she wasn't so
morbidly fascist, I would really pity her.


-- nice and friendly Zpka-Emina-Zoja-Kolina or just: Rosie, is here in full spring...


From Nick we know he tries to be English so bad, he even imitates them on the divide and rule thing. News for
you, son The RA has won!

- RA ? The God of the sun in Egypt? Or you forgot
some letter ...?

Any comment ?


>> Viva UCK!

Zoja <<

>>>By Zoja on Tuesday, May 18, 1999 - 07:38 am:

KLA says it and NATO are ``unofficial comrades''

01:49 p.m May 17, 1999 Eastern


BONN, May 17 (Reuters) - The Kosovo Liberation Army is an unofficial ally of NATO in Kosovo, Jakup Krasniqi,
spokesman for the KLA-led interim government of Kosovo, said on Monday.


``NATO and the KLA are fighting against the same enemy, we are unofficial comrades,'' Krasniqi said in an
interview released ahead of publication in Tuesday's Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. >>>By Zoja on Tuesday, May 25, 1999 - 09:02 pm:

When this criminal organization, which is proudly called NATO, will stop this stupid warr?
It's enough now! They can't do nothing, just bad things! <<<

????????????

>>>>>>Come on, you ground troops. Beat the fascist leaders of Serbia.

Zoja <<<<<


The peace loving "Zoja-Zpka-Emina-Kolina"

"By Zoja on Tuesday, May 18, 1999 - 09:42 am:

The best news I came across.....

JOINT CHIEFS: GROUND TROOPS NEEDED."

-- but only a week later:

"By Zoja on Tuesday, May 25, 1999 - 09:02 pm:

When this criminal organization, which is proudly called NATO, will stop this stupid warr?
It's enough now! They can't do nothing, just bad things! "

???

>>>>>>>>>>>>>By Zoja on Wednesday, May 26, 1999 - 07:46 am:

To NazICK and Daniela

My, my what sourness! Never done anything, never seen anything and such strong opinions! Such hatred! Such a
urging need to prove yourselves! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<


If you didn't like my postings you should have written a complaint letters to the US/UK papers, for which I was providing the URLs.


I am only disturbed with your constant lying.
If you want to lie - why don't you learn it better
at least? Otherwise just stay true to yourself;
the result will stay the same; all of us are still going to despise you...

*****************************************
[...]
Everything about this war has been a lie, so don't expect the peace to be any different. NATO has created a
refugee crisis of mammoth
proportions. NATO has alienated Russia and China. NATO has de-stabilized an entire region.

NATO has blown up the very refugees it purported to save with its humanitarian bombs. And as Svend Robinson
recently observed, NATO
has killed off the fragile democracy movement in Yugoslavia.
When Nancy E. Soderberg, a UN Security Council delegate and a member of the U.S. National Security Council,
recently told an audience
at Princeton University that the Rambouillet talks never called for stationing NATO troops in any part of
Yugoslavia other than Kosovo,
that was a lie. A necessary lie to make it look like Slobodan Milosevic
was an unreasonable tyrant that left the West no alternative but F-18s. Really? "


and the Zpka-Zoja-Emina-kolina wrote at the begining:


"By Zoja on Tuesday, May 25, 1999 - 02:07 pm:

To Daniela

'Everything you know is wrong'

Zoja "


You were right here in your statement of the supposedly mine one. Since you have a trouble with the concentration the article is by
The Sun's national affairs columnist.

Michael Harris can be e-mailed at mharris@istar.ca or visit his home page.

Letters to the editor should be sent to editor@sunpub.com.

NATO Says 200,000 Albanian Women Gave Birth to 100,000 Babies in Two
Months?

Let's Get Together and Do an HONEST Documentary on What's Happening to
Women in Refugee Camps

By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources,
( http://www.originalsources.com )

May 26, 1999

"No one who has not lived for years in a totalitarian land can possibly
conceive how difficult it is to escape the dread consequences of a
regime's calculated and incessant propaganda," William Shirer wrote in the
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Germany's State controlled media -
newspapers and radio - in the 1930's had an interesting side effect that
seems relevant today. Shirer wrote: "With all newspapers in Germany being
told what to publish and how to write the news and editorials, it was
inevitable that a deadly conformity would come over the nation's press.
Even a people so regimented and so given to accepting authority became
bored by the daily newspapers. Circulation declined even for the Nazi
daily newspapers."

Does America have a "controlled press?" Of course not! - or so we are
told. So, how come when I flip from one small or even metropolitan
newspapers to another that I see the same exact wire service stories I saw
in most of the other newspapers I check each night? Who is the SOURCE of
most of the front page news we are being fed not only in our newspapers,
but also on Radio and TV news? And, how come more and more people simply
have quit listening to, reading or watching the news? Are they bored with
the propaganda they are hearing?

In today's papers there is an Associated Pressstory entitled: "NATO Hits
Milosevic Close to Home" which states: "NATO warplanes attacked Slobodan
Milosevic's villa and other targets across Yugoslavia on Tuesday. The
military alliance also approved a revised plan for an enlarged
peacekeeping ground force in Kosovo as soon as Serb troops depart. "A new
wave of refugees - as many as 150,000 - were reported bound for Macedonia,
and a U.N. report detailed in graphic fashion "a significant upsurge" in
sexual violence against ethnic Albanian women in Kosovo since NATO
airstrikes began two months ago.

"The U.N. Population Fund, which sent reproductive health kits to Kosovo
in April that included "morning after" pills for rape victims, said the
report was the first attempt by a United Nations organization to verify
the accounts by refugee women."

Where did this story come from? Either press releases or press conferences
from NATO and the World Population Fund, that's where. Is this real
information gathering, or is it simply pushing the agendas of NATO and the
World Population Fund? The Population Fund is using the NATO bombing and
the resulting humanitarian crisis to get the Albanian Muslim women in the
Refugee camps to accept an abortion pill. This cynical pill pushing on
hapless refugees when the women are Muslim of course is a clear violation
of their religion. Who, do you suppose, is making the money off those
pills?

In an incredible exchange yesterday at the NATO briefing, a French
reporter asked Jamie Shea about NATO's destruction of civilian electric
and water facilities in Yugoslavia which is causing great havoc in
hospitals, among other things.

The Yugoslavia Minister of Health, Leposava Milicevic announced in a press
conference held for the foreign and domestic reporters that due to the
day-long disappearance of electricity and water, lives of 9500 patients in
intensive care, 300 prematurely born babies, 2000 patients suffering from
kidney failure who are dialyses, 400 malignant patients in laser therapy,
1000 hospital patients on the surgery desks, 30,000 patients with the need
for laboratory analyses, 12,000 requiring X-rays, 200 in magnetic re
sonance treatment and 200 treated with the nuclear medicine were
endangered in Serbia.

Also, of course without electricity water purification systems across the
country were also wiped out in 250 district and regional waterworks was
disabled, which additionally endangered the health of the population. In
fact, that could cause an epidemic. The death-rate of premature babies has
increased 8% (and the rate of birth of premature babies has increased
because of the bombing) Dr. Milicevic said. She announced that 115 medical
institutions had been damaged by air raids so far, with some of them havi
ng been totally demolished, such as Dragisa Misovic hospital.

"If NATO continues in such a manner, there will be no patients in Serbia
left real soon, only healthy and bitter persons who have lost their
dearest ones will survive, and than even 150000 soldiers would not be
enough to the aggressor to continue this war," Dr. Milicevic said. The
exact number of killed patients and medical workers is not known because
the daily bombing does not allow the dead to be dug out of the ruins.

Shea's incredible response to the reporter's question was, "President
Milosevic has got plenty of back-up generators. His armed forces have
hundreds of them. He can either use these back-up generators to supply his
hospitals, his schools, or he can use them to supply his military. His
choice. If he has a big headache over this, then that is exactly what we
want him to have and I am not going to make any apology for that.

"Secondly, I don't know if anybody realizes this. It's not often
remembered but over 50% of the refugees in Albania and the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia are under 18 years of age. Children, or at least
adolescents. 40% are under 14 years of age. 20,000 are under one year old
and at least 100,000 babies have been born since this crisis in March in
those refugee camps, without incubators, without electricity, without
medical support, without water, without a roof over their heads, with
absolutely nothing. And therefore they are still considerably less
fortunate than those babies in Belgrade. NATO doesn't wish any harm to any
baby but let's make it clear here, the suffering, the real suffering, not
the TV images, but the real suffering is in this business overwhelmingly
on the side of the Kosovar Albanians who don't have the choice,
unfortunately, between an incubator with electricity supplied by President
Milosevic or an incubator without electricity. They simply have no
incubator because they have been forced out of their homes and into fields."

There are approximately 600,000 Albanian refugees, we are told, most of
whom are not in refugee camps. If 50% of them are children, that would
mean there are 300,000 adults, not all of them women of child-bearing age.
Many of them are men, in fact. Mathematically speaking how could
100,000-200,000 women of possible child bearing age have 100,000 babies in
a two month period? The Albanians do have the highest birth rate in Europe
-2.9% annually. If we generously assume that of the 300,000 adults in
those camps there are 200,000 women of child bearing age, that would mean
at the most there could have been no more than 400 births in two months
time - and of course, not all of them would have needed incubators. Where
did Jamie Shea get a 100,000 baby figure? Was it off the top of his little
propaganda factory head?

And who is it that has forced the Albanians out of their homes? Has anyone
noticed, besides me, that every time NATO brags about increasing and
intensifying the air strikes that a new batch of Albanians arrive at the
borders for the Western nations to take care of? When a few days go by
without bombs in Kosovo, the flow of refugees slows to a trickle or stops.
Are we all supposed to be too stupid to notice that?

Yesterday I got a very interesting call from a film producer who would
like to fly over to Macedonia and make a documentary film in the Refugee
camps because, like me, the producer finds that the stories about the
Albanians we are hearing from NATO or KLA sources simply don't make any
sense. In fact, the producer was hoping that Original Sources, which is
dedicated to getting the truth from the original source, might sponsor the
filming of a documentary which goes to the original source and asks
questions, rather than listening to government propagandists like Jamie
Shea..

Obviously, the stories we are now hearing are increasingly based on the
situation of the Albanian women. What really do THEY want? Are they being
manipulated and used by the men - the KLA and Jamie Shea - to make some
propaganda points? Would they like to be marched back into a bombed out
Kosovo, by armed NATO soldiers? How long had they actually lived in
Kosovo? How many had come across the border when Albania's government and
economy collapsed? Or, perchance, would they like to have an opportunity
for a new kind of life elsewhere - America, South America, Europe? Has
anyone bothered to ASK the women questions, or, as the article yesterday
indicated, were reporters jumping on buses of refugees and yelling, "Is
there anyone here who's been raped who speaks English?"

Original Sources, which I own, doesn't have $20,000 to sponsor the
documentary, but if it did, I'd write the check in a nano-second. So, with
that in mind, let's create a new force here to do what we all keep saying
SOMEONE needs to do - get the actual truth out to the world. Only by the
people having the truth can we stop this horrible war and get real help to
all those who are being hurt whatever their nationality. Readers, here's
your chance to really make a huge difference. I think it's time that the pu
blic has the opportunity to participate, in a cooperative way, in the
gathering of the truth. The absurd propaganda being foisted on a weary
public on TV, radio and from wire reporters who sit around in press rooms
waiting for Jamie Shea or James Rubin or other government propagandist to
make totally ridiculous statements they can then broadcast as "news," is
going to destroy us all.

My publisher, (who also happens to be my son) Gavin Grooms has agreed to
manage the Funds for Truth under the auspices of his organization, Banner
of Liberty. Banner of Liberty's goals are to bring back the PRINCIPLES we
once believed in to the discussion of these matters - principles like
truth, justice, freedom, honor, morality and courage. Let's send an honest
and courageous person over to find the truth in the refugee camps. Who's
in those camps? Were 100,000 babies born in them in the last two months?
Where did the refugees REALLY originally come from? Kosovo or Albania?
Milosevic has stated all Kosovo CITIZENS will be allowed to return. Jamie
Shea has said that many of the refugees "had their papers taken" by Serb
officials and that "EVERY refugee from Kosovo" will be allowed back.
Apparently, that means the hundreds of thousands of illegal Albanians are
to be settled in Kosovo - based on their word that they are citizens? Is
that the way we would decide who's a citizen and who's an illegal alien
in, say, Texas or California?

Let's find some honest answers. If you want to help fund this documentary,
send a check to Banner of Liberty, Attention Gavin Grooms, at P.O. Box
50864, Provo, Ut. 84605-0864 or, for a credit card donation call Gavin
Grooms toll free at 877-821-6244.

To comment: mmostert@originalsources.com

Old Balkan refugees forgotten in Kosovo chaos

By Crispian Balmer


ULCINJ, Montenegro, May 25 (Reuters) - Sitting on the steps of their rotting
wood cabins, a small group of refugees from a decade of fighting in the
Balkans fear the world only cares about the thousands of ethnic Albanians now
fleeing Kosovo.

``Since the Kosovo refugees arrived, no-one has given us anything. Not even a
kilo of flour -- we have been forgotten,'' said 55-year old Vlado Makivic, a
Serb who originally came from Croatia.

Like many of the 198 people living in the ``Safari Camp,'' a former tourist
campsite on the edge of Montenegro's Adriatic coast, Makivic saw no end in
sight to his four-year exile.

``The best thing would be for NATO to drop some bombs here. That would put us
all out of our misery,'' he said.

Just down the road, around 3,000 refugees from Kosovo are staying in another
former tourist resort. Unlike the Safari Camp, officials from the United
Nations and the Red Cross regularly visit the ``Neptune Camp,'' handing out
food and clothes.

``They have been suffering just two months. I've been suffering for seven
years. There is no future for me and no-one cares,'' said 40-year old Zeljko,
who came from Croatia's Dalmatian coast.

NATO has promised to get the Kosovo Albanians back home before the onset of
winter, but the hardened Safari crew shake their heads in disbelief and say
their new neighbours should get used to the idea of being refugees.

``There is no way they can go back. They have nowhere to go. These are poor
people, their homes have been burnt down. They will become like us,'' said
Dragan Bauk, with a sad smile of just three brown teeth.

A couple of ethnic Albanian families have moved into the Safari Camp and live
alongside the Serb majority. But the refugees say there are no problems.
``This is ex-Yugoslavia in one small camp. There is no tension. We all share
the same destiny,'' said Bauk. ``It's the politicians who have ruined us.''

Bauk used to live in eastern Croatia before the army swept away all the Serbs
in the area in 1995. After years of living off handouts, he and his friends
are desperate for work, but as refugees they are not entitled to work permits
and have to scrounge around for odd-jobs.

The going rate on nearby farms is 10 marks ($5.50) for 12 hours work.
``People see us at the bottom of the pile and cheat us. Even if you get a job
they won't necessarily pay you,'' Bauk says.

Much of the day is spent sitting on the steps of their cramped wooden cabins,
hoping it does not rain. When the rains come, the site turns into a swamp and
life becomes even more uncomfortable.

``The government had been planning to make improvements here, but with the
new Kosovo refugees arriving that seems to have been forgotten,'' says
Jasminka Lemesh, a middle-aged immigrant from Sarajevo, who lives with her
young handicapped daughter and teenage son.

A former tourist guide, Lemesh now tries to keep her family alive on meagre
state rations. Her husband died last month of a heart attack.

``If I'd known what was going to happen to me, I would have stayed in
Sarajevo and got killed there. This is pure humiliation,'' she said, using
one hand to keep her broken spectacles in place.

Montenegro is Serbia's junior partner in what remains of the Yugoslav
federation. A poor country with an average annual salary of just $1,000, it
is ill-equipped to cope with the huge numbers of refugees who have poured
over its borders in the last few years.

Around 15 percent of Montenegro's population is now made up of refugees and
the republic's pro-Western government would dearly like the West to take some
in to ease the burden.

That would be a dream come true for the unwilling residents of Safari Camp,
who want to rebuild their lives outside Yugoslavia.

``We would go anywhere - to Pakistan, Bangladesh or Burma. I just want to
work,'' said Milan Saric, another Serb who had to flee ethnic cleansing in
Croatia in 1995.

``My life might have been completely destroyed but I want my children to have
a chance,'' he said.

09:33 05-25-99

To Daniela.

Sorry, hon. This kind of stuff does not work. Pity for the trouble you took.

What about the diapers, child? Can you fit them underneath your 501s, just bought from your pocket money savings? How much on-line time did your parents allow you this week??

Sweet seventten.

Zoja

To Daniela.

Sorry, hon. This kind of stuff does not work. Pity for the trouble you took.

What about the diapers, child? Can you fit them underneath your 501s, just bought from your pocket money savings? How much on-line time did your parents allow you this week??

Sweet seventeen.

Zoja

Refugee Flow Speeds Up as New Reports of Evictions Surface

By DAVID ROHDE

BLACE, Macedonia -- Bringing new accounts of atrocities and
worsening conditions inside Kosovo, more than 14,000 ethnic
Albanians have surged across the border here over the last
two days, with possibly thousands more behind them.

On Sunday, 7,000 people fled into Macedonia, continuing the largest
exodus of refugees from Kosovo in more than two weeks.

Even as the new arrivals crossed the border Sunday, U.N. refugee
officials were busy processing an equal number of Kosovo
Albanians who entered Macedonia on Saturday.

The refugees, who came carrying possessions and children and
with dismay and exhaustion etched on their faces, told of mass
expulsions, random killings, and men who were separated from
their families.

They said that robbery was being carried out systematically by Serb
forces and that food supplies in the southern Serbian province were
dwindling.

The refugees also reported that Serbian forces continued going
door to door Sunday in neighborhoods in Pristina, the Kosovo
capital, and in the town of Urosevac, ordering Albanians to leave.

The reasons for the new round of expulsions were not clear.
Refugees arriving over the last several days said they had received
no explanation from soldiers and police officers who ordered them
out.

"This may be the final effort to clear some neighborhoods" in
Pristina, said Ron Redmond, a spokesman for the U.N. refugee
agency. "They're once again getting serious about expelling people."

Refugees arrived Sunday on about 20 buses as well as a train that
had originated just south of Pristina. The train was packed, and
refugees reported that several hundred people were unable to board
in Urosevac, Redmond said.

They said that as many as 300 people filled each car and that one
elderly man died during the journey.

Redmond said there appeared to be more people than usual
requiring medical aid among the new arrivals, particularly elderly.

With roughly 2,000 refugees being flown from Macedonia each day
to the United States and Western Europe, there is room for the new
arrivals in the once-crowded refugee camps here, Redmond said.

But he said that if the influx continued, the camps would quickly be
at capacity again, increasing fears of health problems.

"Two more days of this," he said, "and we'll be shoe-horning people
into these camps again."

Serbian forces have steadily expelled Albanians from various parts
of Kosovo since just before NATO bombing began on March 24. But
they have opened and closed the border at random intervals, at
times trapping thousands of displaced people inside the province.

Some Western officials have speculated that the expulsions may
correspond with the needs of Serbian forces, clearing Albanians
from an area to separate the population from the Kosovo rebel
army, or variously clogging or clearing roads depending on NATO
air attacks and the movements of Serb military convoys.

Many of the new arrivals said they were expelled from their homes
weeks ago, but were then blocked from crossing the border. They
have spent the intervening time hiding in abandoned homes in
Pristina or in remote villages waiting for the opportunity to flee.

Refugees said the climate of fear was so intense and food was in
such short supply that some Albanians had readily fled upon hearing
news that the border was open.

Fehmi Krasniqi, a 44-year-old teacher who arrived from Pristina on
Saturday, said he hid his 18-year-old son in his attic each of the
three times Serbian soldiers came to his home to rob them. The
fourth time was too much.

"Five soldiers came the day before yesterday," he said, explaining
his decision to leave. "I was afraid they wanted to take him."

Daniela, when you are old enough, go do something like what you can read below. It might give your world view a more mature perspective.

---

THE NEW YORK TIMES

May 24, 1999

A DOCTOR

American Volunteer Finds Frustrations and Joy at Refugee Clinic

By DAVID ROHDE

JAZINCE, Macedonia -- There are moments when the pure
exhilaration of being here leads Dr. Jennifer Walser to wish she
did not have to return to New York. But there are also moments
when her efforts to alleviate are dwarfed by the sheer scale of the
tragedy unfolding before her.

Late last month, Dr. Walser, a 31-year-old doctor who has been
finishing her residency in a hospital emergency room in the Bronx,
left New York to volunteer in refugee camps in Macedonia. Her spur
of the moment decision, which was sparked when she read Elie
Wiesel's invocation of the biblical dictum to "not stand idly by" in a
magazine article, was chronicled in The New York Times on April
27.

Nearly a month later, Dr. Walser is in Macedonia -- more alive, she
says, than she has ever been. And she has extended her stay for
two weeks.

"I don't know why everyone doesn't do this," she said, as she
gunned a Toyota Land Cruiser down dirt track covered with goat
manure in this remote village a half mile from the Kosovo border.
"It's incredible."

Dr. Walser says she is satisfying her desires to help people while
experiencing a grand adventure. She has fallen in love with the
people of Kosovo and is being exposed to the joys and frustrations
of aid work. It is a craft where the ability to see immediately the
impact of easing pain and suffering can be intoxicating.

She has also learned the limits of her work, the inability to end the
cause of the misery. Even so, Dr. Walser said, the work has been
enormously fulfilling. She wants to find a way to make refugee
medical work a regular part of her life.

"My only regret is that I have so many loans that I have to go get a
job to pay them off," she said. "I want to stay here."

Other American doctors volunteering here for the same medical
nonprofit group, the International Medical Corps, said they too had
found the work extraordinary.

Dr. Todd Mydler, a 38-year-old pediatrician from Kansas City, Mo., a
graduate of Holy Cross College, said a Jesuit philosophy "to do for
others" brought him to Macedonia. And Dr. James Kleiwer, a
49-year-old family practitioner from Killeen, Texas, said he was
galled to see "the strong taking advantage of the weak" in Kosovo
and did not want to live a "a life of excuses."

Dr. Walser, an indefatigable woman with boundless energy, seems
well-suited for the work. Tall and athletic, she is a chatterbox, a
whirlwind of sound and motion who -- dressed in a white physician's
vest -- attracts a gaggle of children whenever she walks through a
camp or village. Sometimes, she passes out kites she had her
sister ship from the United States. Other times, she gives a child a
sticker.

After less than a month, she speaks surprisingly good Albanian and
warmly greets Albanians teen-agers with the phrase "merdita, baby"
-- a combination of the Albanian word for "good day" and New York
slang.

Initially Dr. Walser went to work in the 14,000-person Stenkovec
refugee camp five miles from the Kosovo border, a sweltering,
dusty maze of tents erected on a former military air base.

Living with other doctors in an apartment in nearby Skopje,
Macedonia's capital, she worked a 24-hour shift every other day
during her first two weeks. Her main activity, and most haunting
experience, was caring for thousands of ill and exhausted refugees
flooding into the camp by bus.

Entering each bus with an interpreter, she typically found a victim of
beating, elderly people been expelled from their homes without their
heart or high blood pressure medicine, and several dehydrated and
exhausted people.

She particularly remembers the 10-hour-old baby passed to her by
a pale young mother still bleeding from giving birth. And the boy
whose badly broken arm she had to splint with scrap wood and a
bag of rocks. Or a hysterical woman who had seen her husband
and father killed hours before.

The ill and exhausted were taken by stretcher to a medical tent
where Dr. Walser and other doctors stabilized them. Over all, the
drugs and equipment here are limited but good, she said, and she is
able to do her job well. She has experienced only one death, an
elderly man who died one night, while sleeping in his tent.

Much of the treatment involves psychology. Calming the woman
who said she had witnessed the killing of her husband and her
father, Dr. Walser gave Valium and repeated over and over, "You
are safe, you are safe, you are safe."

The shock and injuries are not as troubling, Dr. Walser said, as
separating herself from her patients. In the Bronx, she distanced
herself from shooting victims, for example, by telling herself that
something the person did may have contributed to his fate. While
not necessarily fair or true, this eased the haunting questions that
arise when dealing with illness and death, she said.

But the scale of Kosovo's refugee crisis is so great, she said, that it
is difficult not to feel touched by it. In Kosovo's Albanians, she sees
herself and her own family. "They're like you and me," she said,
"and someone just walks in their house and shoots someone."

She admires the intense family bonds among the Albanians and the
qualities she says are embodied in a 12-year-old boy she befriended
here. The boy, whom she knows only by his first name, Arian,
helped Dr. Walser and other staff erect a new, better equipped field
clinic in Stenkovec. During the project, he worked ceaselessly,
digging trenches for water lines or erecting tents.

As the weeks have passed, Dr. Walser has learned that the work
here involves more than just just helping. It involves making very
difficult decisions.

For example, any refugees who can get Dr. Walser to write a
diagnosis requiring their immediate evacuation for medical reasons
could be on the way in days with their families to new lives in
Western Europe. Horrified at first by conditions in the camp, Dr.
Walser said she initially wrote diagnoses for whoever wanted to
leave.

But after officials complained, Dr. Walser began having to say no.
Ugly confrontations erupted where she, and she alone, had to tell
families they would have to wait in the camp.

"They would come in with their entire family," she said, a drawn look
coming over her usually bright face. "Needless to say, they were
very, very upset."

Laura Bowman, an administrator for the International Medical Corps
who has been working in the Balkans since 1994, said those
decisions took the highest toll on aid workers. "When I've cried it's
not because I'm doing good," she said. "It's because I've been
forced to make horrible choices."

Those difficult moments, and a slow-down in the number of
refugees arriving in Macedonia, prompted Dr. Walser to volunteer to
work in a clinic in Jazince, a remote village near a border crossing.
Here, she has examined refugees who trek over 4,000-foot passes
to flee Kosovo, attracted a new gaggle of children, cared for a horse
that stepped on a land mine, and spent her evenings watching
NATO bombs explode a few miles away inside Kosovo.

The decision to come to Macedonia, Dr. Walser said, was one of
the best she ever made.

"The worst part about it, the most frustration and the most likely
thing to burn me out is just the magnitude of the things you see
here," she said. "But I also feel that to a tiny, almost imperceptible
extent, I am part of a force helping improve the situation, albeit a
small one."

General sent to stop troop mutiny

Concessions: General Nebojsa Pavkovic

The Yugoslav general in charge of the war in Kosovo has been called in from the military campaign to placate thousands of mutinous troops and protesters, according to reports reaching the republic of Montenegro.


Protests are continuing in several towns in Serbia where the families of dead and wounded soldiers are calling for an end to the fighting.

General Nebojsa Pavkovic spent Sunday in the Serbian town of Raska, where many of the dead and wounded have been arriving over the past few days.

Protesters rally

He promised that those men who were sick or needed to provide for their families could stay at home, but others would still have to go to Kosovo to fight.

His concessions did little to placate the more than 1,000 protesters reported to be rallying against him.

In another town, Aleksandrovac, two Yugoslav army colonels sent in from Nis were said to be held by a crowd until they promised to deliver a petition to Belgrade.



Up to 1,000 Serb soldiers reportedly deserted last week
This attempt by the army to negotiate is evidence of the concern these very personal anti-war protests are causing in Belgrade.

They have been going on for more than a week now and if anything show signs of spreading rather than letting up.

It was reported on Wednesday that some 800 to 1,000 Serbian soldiers had deserted their units and returned to Krusevac in Yugoslavia after anti-war protests there.

Offer refused

Last week the former mayor of Belgrade Zoran Djindjic said a state of emergency had been declared in the region around the town because of the protests.

Montenegro's independent daily Vijesti said on Thursday that Gen Pavkovic, who was dispatched to Krusevac to talk to the men, had failed to persuade the deserters to return to Kosovo.

Gen Pavkovic said the army would view their return home as temporary leave, but Vijesti said this offer had been refused.

"(The soldiers) want a permanent end to the war," the newspaper said in an article headlined "Not even Pavkovic can make the troops return to Kosovo."

The way that President Milosevic chooses to handle this rebellion by his own citizens could well determine the outcome of the Kosovo crisis.



Monday, May 24, 1999 Published at 20:18 GMT 21:18 UK


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UN accuses Serbs of ethnic cleansing

Less than a third of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian population is believed to remain

The leader of the first United Nations team to visit Kosovo has said the situation there is worse than he expected, with clear evidence of widespread ethnic cleansing by Serb forces.


Sergio Vieira de Mello said his humanitarian mission had gathered enough evidence to confirm there had been attempts to displace a "shocking" number of civilians.

"In one word, it is pretty revolting," he told reporters following the three-day trip.

Speaking in Montenegro, he said he had travelled extensively in Kosovo, although the Serbs had prevented his party from visiting some areas.



Sergio Vieira de Mello: Reality in Kosovo was worse than I thought
He said what they did see was enough for a "picture of what went on'' and that the scale of the crisis was "gigantic".

''Everything indicates that there is an attempt to displace, ethnically cleanse, Kosovo," Mr de Mello added.

Yugoslav denial

The Yugoslav ambassador to the UN, Vladislav Jovanovic, denied ethnic cleansing was official policy, but pointed out that a state of war existed in Kosovo with both sides involved in hostilities.

Mr de Mello's first-hand account backs up the individual testimonies of thousands of refugees who have fled the province over the past two months.

He also said there were "possibly hundreds of thousands" of Kosovo Albanians displaced within Kosovo who were "in a desperate need of assistance''.

"We have seen many of them in the last three days, receiving very little support. Certainly nothing from the international community," he added.

Mr de Mello is scheduled to have discussions with Yugoslav government officials in Belgrade on Wednesday.


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Serbs flee Yugoslavia

Nato says infrastructure attacks are taking their toll on Serb morale

The United Nations refugee agency says about 30,000 Serbs have left Yugoslavia for the Bosnian Serb republic since Nato air strikes began two months ago.


A spokeswoman for the UNHCR, Wendy Rappeport, said some had fled the bombing, while others were trying to avoid being called up to serve in the Yugoslav army.

She said the numbers had been provided by the Bosnian Serb authorities, and included Yugoslav Serbs, Serbs from Croatia who fled to Yugoslavia in 1995, and Bosnian Serbs who left during the Bosnian war.

Milosevic is 'cracking'

Nato Secretary-General Javier Solana has said increasing internal dissent in Yugoslavia and the country's international isolation proved that Nato should stick with its air campaign.

"We want to maintain the strategy at this very moment which is producing results rapidly," Mr Solana told the Associated Press.



John Simpson in Belgrade: People here are frightened and angry
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic "is cracking. No question about it," he said, in an apparent reference to the anti-government demonstrations taking place in the towns of Krusevac, Alexandrovac and Raska.

However, the Yugoslav Army seems to have toughened its stance on deserting reservists with reports they will face courts martial unless they return to their units.


Nato 'kill'

General Michael Short - the American airforce general in charge of the air war against Yugoslavia - predicted that Yugoslav forces in Kosovo would be broken in two months.

General Short, in an interview with the Washington Post, predicted that in two more months, a combination of high and low altitude attacks from B-52 and B-1 bombers and the A-10 attack aircraft would "kill this army in Kosovo or send it on the run"

President Clinton is also reported to have approved action by the CIA to train the Kosovo Liberation Army and even to hack into Mr Milosevic's bank accounts.

And in a sign of how far off a peace deal still appears to be, Yugoslavia's UN envoy declared that Nato has no moral right to enter the country after its bombing campaign and insisted that Belgrade must be a full partner in negotiations.

"It would be really unthinkable for one sovereign country to allow its own destroyers to play the role of peacemakers or peacekeepers," Vladislav Jovanovic said.

Belgrade puts aid workers on trial

A refugee consoles her twin sons after crossing into Albania

The trial has begun in Belgrade of three aid workers charged with spying for Nato.


The three men - two Australians and one Yugoslav - had been working in Yugoslavia for the aid agency, Care Australia, when they were arrested. They face long prison sentences if convicted.

The trial opened as diplomatic efforts continued in Moscow to find a solution to the Kosovo conflict, although there was no sign of a breakthrough.

The Australian Ambassador, Christopher Lamb, was excluded from the court. He said his expulsion was contrary to international law.

Rageh Omaar reports: "Pratt accused of spying while posing as an aid worker"
One of the men, Steve Pratt, is charged with organising an espionage network. The others, Peter Wallace and Branko Jelen, are accused of supporting him. The charges are strenuously denied by officials of the charity.

The two Australians were arrested as they tried to leave Serbia for neighbouring Croatia.




They were carrying files and computers which the Yugoslav authorities said contained sensitive information which they intended to pass to Nato.

Two correspondents from the Australian network, ABC, were briefly allowed into the court and they report that the men looked physically well.

Diplomatic drive

In Moscow, the US Deputy Secretary of State, Strobe Talbott, has again insisted on a full withdrawal of Yugoslav forces from Kosovo as a pre-condition for movement towards a political solution.



Mike Williams reports: "For almost two weeks, nothing was heard of the aid workers"
Russia again repeated its demand that Nato halt its bombing campaign to open an opportunity for a political solution.

Mr Talbott was speaking after talks with the Russian foreign minister, Igor Ivanov. He was also due to meet President Yeltsin's envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin and the Finnish president, Martti Ahtisaari.

Mr Ahtisaari, representing the EU, will accompany Mr Chernomyrdin to Belgrade on Thursday if Russia and the West agree a set of joint demands to be backed up by a resolution from the UN Security Council.



John McIntyre reports: "The decision to send more troops will send a clear message to Milosevic
Mr Chernomyrdin's previous visits to Belgrade have yielded few concrete results, with negotiations foundering on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's refusal to allow Nato countries to provide troops for any peacekeeping force in Kosovo.

However the pro-Western president of Montenegro, Serbia's junior partner in the Yugoslav Federation, Milo Djukanovic, said on Tuesday he saw "positive signals" that Belgrade might soon make concessions.

"An increasing number of people in Serbia are ... becoming aware of the pointlessness and senselessness of such a war," he said after meeting UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in London.

Extra force puts pressure on Belgrade

Nato is continuing to work on its plans to almost double the number of its troops on Yugoslavia's borders. Its reinforcement is expected to bring to 50,000 the number of its troops in the area.



Mark Laity at Nato HQ: The force will escort the refugees and then defend them
Commanders are working out the exact figure and composition of the force, which is destined for a peacekeeping role in Kosovo.

The troops will be heavily armed and ready to head into Kosovo as soon as Serb troops leave the province.

Non-Nato members will be briefed by the alliance and asked if they are interested in taking part.

Although it is not intended to fight its way into Kosovo, the peacekeeping force could provide the core of any possible ground attack.

The BBC correspondent in Brussels, Nick Childs, says the reinforcements will take the heat out of the debate over ground troops - at least for now.

Yugoslav news reports said overnight raids by Nato aircraft once again targeted the headquarters of Serbian television in Novi Sad, along with radio and television transmitters.

Sites in and around the Kosovo capital, Pristina, were also reported to have been attacked.

American defence officials said a complex used by President Milosevic on the outskirts of Belgrade was hit in earlier raids.


One person was reported to have been killed and six people injured in daytime attacks across Yugoslavia on Tuesday.

Refugee influx



Orla Guerin on the Macedonian border: Macedonia is near breaking point
The need to find a solution to the Kosovo crisis has been underlined by warnings of a potential new crisis as refugees continue to arrive at the border of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

A United Nations report has documented allegations of widespread rapes by Serbian soldiers in Kosovo.

The report for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) was based on interviews with 35 ethnic Albanian women in refugee camps in Albania.

It says the women from Djakovica, Pec and the Drenica region reported being raped sometimes for days.

They said they were taken in groups of five to 30 women and locked up in houses where the Serbian soldiers lived.

The report says women who were released had lacerations on their chest and evidence of beatings on their arms and legs. It says other rape victims were systematically killed.

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Kosovar Leader Thanks Macedonia

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BLACE, Macedonia (AP) - A key ethnic Albanian leader thanked Macedonian officials today for harboring hundreds of thousands of Kosovo refugees, amid U.N. warnings that camps in the country were near overflowing.

Ibrahim Rugova, visiting the Macedonian capital of Skopje, said he wanted to express ``gratitude to Macedonia and President (Kiro) Gligorov personally for all they have done for the ... refugees.'' He was expected to tour refugee camps later in the day.

Denis McNamara, Balkans envoy for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, told reporters at the Blace border crossing point today that about 6,000 refugees crossed from Kosovo in the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday morning. Over the previous four days, between 7,000 and 8,000 had arrived daily in the biggest influx since early May.

``If this continues, the camps will be full tonight,'' he said.

U.N. officials have been negotiating with Macedonia's reluctant government for permission to expand the seven main refugee camps. Macedonia, with its own substantial minority of ethnic Albanians, worries that the arrivals could upset the ethnic balance and possibly lead to unrest. It also says it does not have enough money to cope with the refugees.

McNamara said UNHCR has pledged $4.5 million to the Macedonian government and has paid out about half of that. He said the government has apparently agreed ``in principle'' to open at least one new camp but details remained to be worked out.

``It's a manageable refugee crisis if we can cool down the political situation,'' he said.

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KLA actions cause many Serb Casualties



Vushtrri, May 22 (Kosovapress)
Midday yesterday, after a NATO attack on Serb positions in Samadrexhë, a unit of the 141st "Mehë Uka," Brigade attacked the Serb troops and killed six and injured many others. On this occasion, KLA forces also destroyed a tank and Praga while capturing a large amount of ammunition.

Today, since 14:00, the unit of the 142nd Brigade has confronted Serb forces at a training center in Frashër të Vogël and killed seven.

The unit of the same brigade, around 15:00 at the exit of the village facing Prishtina, destroyed a jeep killing all its passengers.

In revenge, Serb troops gathered a large number of male civilians from the village of Vushtrrisë holding them in the sports hall. Their fate is unknown.

Today, NATO airplanes attacked some military and police bases which were set along the front line, Vaganicë-Pirç-Pantinë, inflicting heavy damage.


New evidence of Serb crimes in Suhareka

Suharekë, May 22, (Kosovapress)
Ahmet Lugaxhiu, from Vraniqi i Suhareka, declared that on May 13, 1999 Serb police massacred 35 inhabitants in the surrounding hills of the villages Vraniq and Maçitevë. He himself saw the body of Ramadan Duçit (35), from Vraniqi, whose eyes were removed by Serb soldiers while he was alive and had salt poured into the wounds.

Shefkije Bajraktari (55), from Budakova, stated that on the 11th of May, after Serb police officers had separated Mursel Buçajn (60) from his family, put him in a pile of hay and set him on fire. His family was forced to watch as he burnt to death. Shefkije Bajraktari also witnessed on May 11, the Serb police enter the house of Rexhë Kokollarit (55) in Budakovë and proceeded to set his home on fire with him tied to the stove inside. Serb police also captured in Vraniq, Ymer and Zylfije Palushin from Budakova and poured burning oil on their bodies while the father of two children, Zejnullah Kokollarin, was shot in his backyard, again in the presence of his family.

Ganimete Tershana (28), from Reçani i Suhareka, stated that on April 22, her father in law Muhametin (60) as well her brother in law, Afrimin (27), were murdered by Serb police while working in their yard.

Bajrush Bajrami (68), from Duhla e Suhareka stated that at Rekë të Keqe, on May 13 in the afternoon, Serb police executed around 30 civilians, many of whom were elders, sick and paralyzed.



The abduction of Shkëlqim Selimi



Lipjan, May 22 (Kosovapress)
Yesterday, in the village of Banullë located in the municipality of Lipjan, around 70 Serb police officers, led by among others: Momcillovic, Çernovic, Toshic, the know boxer Igic, Ceka and others had surrounded the house of Shkëlqim Selimit (17). These known criminals, after stealing anything of value, burnt two cars, maltreated the other members of the Selimi family and their neighbors, and then took Shkëlqim to an unknown destination.


Deportees have been forced back on the road


Prishtinë, May 22, (Kosovapress)
Yesterday some inhabitants of Prishtina, Mramor and Grashticë, were placed on a train for Macedonia but were turned back by Serb police at Ferizaj.

According to witnesses, these people have taken refuge in several villages around Lipjan, such as Gllogoc and Banullë.


NATO`s response to its attacks on the KLA base at Koshara and the Istog prison


Brussels, May 22 (Kosovapress)
Officials of NATO have given some explanations today about the attacks on the Dubrava prison located near Istog and the KLA base in Koshara.

According to the military spokesman of the alliance, Colonel Conrad Freytag, NATO airplanes had attacked military bases surrounding the prison, where Serb troops were stationed as well as a variety of military vehicles, suggesting it was a legitimate military target. Spokesman Freytag, did not know why Serb authorities showed dead bodies inside the prison`s compound since that was not the target.

Concerning the attack on the KLA base in Koshara which has been in the hands of the KLA for a month, Jamie Shea, NATO spokesman, said it was a legitimate target and NATO was not aware that the KLA had captured the site.

"If we had known that this position was under the control of the KLA, we would have taken it off our target list," said Mr. Shea, who used the word "Kosani" for the mentioned target.


Four Serb Superior Officers killed in Dyz


Podjevë, May 22 (Kosovapress)
Yesterday around 3:30, a unit of the Vth Battalion Guard of the Llap operational Zone conducted an operation at the village of Dyz, attacking a military vehicle driven by four high-ranking officers of the Serb army. All four were killed and the vehicle was completely destroyed. Another unit of the same Battalion, at around 01:00 after midnight, attacked a convoy traveling on the Batllavë-Orllan road destroying a number of vehicles and killing scores of Serb soldiers. Midday today, in the village of Ballaban, KLA forces confronted Serb units which were in the process of looting Kosovar homes. As a result of this battle, two Serb soldiers were killed and a number were injured.

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Milosevic must go, says Montenegrin president

Many Montenegrins want the Yugoslav army out

The president of Montenegro - Serbia's sister-republic in the Yugoslav federation - has called on Nato to depose Slobodan Milosevic.


In interviews with the Montenegrin media over the weekend, President Milo Djukanovic called the Yugoslav president "the source of the present problem" which had to be dealt with.

He warned Nato and the West that they must find a comprehensive solution to the Balkan crisis.



Milo Djukanovic: "A new framework for Yugoslavia"
President Djukanovic said there was no way he would accept a Balkan settlement in which Kosovo ended up with a higher degree of autonomy than Montenegro.

He said the legal status of the Republic of Montenegro within Yugoslavia would have to be redefined once a solution had been found, and that would mean a complete rethink of Yugoslavia's legal and constitutional system.

"The existing legal and constitutional framework of Yuogoslavia is open to manipulation to the detriment of Montenegro and to attempts - which have partly succeeded - by the Belgrade regime to undermine the equality and dignity of Montenegro in the Yugoslav state," Mr Djukanovic said.

A new status for Montenegro

President Milosevic: "The source of the problem"
The constitutional review would have to "offer Montenegro and its distinct state policy a broad enough framework, a broad enough autonomy for that policy to be pursued, and for the strategic national and state interests of Montenegro to be fully realised," Mr Djukanovic said.

That would mean Montenegro would no longer have to depend on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic or his successor.

Nato must remove Milosevic

He accused the West of using wrong policies in the past to deal with what he called the dictatorship of President Milosevic.



The Yugoslav Amy in Montenegro is loyal to President Milosevic
Now he hoped, Mr Djukanovic said, the West would not try to find a short-term solution to Kosovo but aim to remove the source of the whole problem - Mr Milosevic himself.

If the West failed, Mr Djukanovic predicted a series of other conflicts in the predominantly Muslim Sandzak area on the Montenegrin border with Serbia, in the ethnic Hungarian area of Vojvodina north of Belgrade and in Montenegro itself.

Shuttle diplomacy

For the past two weeks, the Montenegrin president has been going back and forth to European capitals to press his views on leaders there.

He has also come in for a barrage of criticism himself.

Serbian television has run a long documentary accusing him of taking multi-million dollar bribes from Nato, supporting terrorism and consorting with what it called that Serb-hater, Madeleine Albright, who was intent on destroying the federal republic of Yugoslavia.

There are reports that Mr Djukanovic has ambitions to become the next president of Yugoslavia, although the Montenegrin president's officials say that is merely political speculation.

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