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To: Les H who wrote (2478)	4/7/1999 1:41:00 PM
From: Jacalyn Deaner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Les, thanks for that post. RE: KLA regrouping. Jacalyn

To: Les H who wrote (2478)	4/7/1999 1:45:00 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 17770

" While the ranks of this new army are filled by young men and women, truckloads of new uniforms, machine-guns and rocket launchers are arriving in northern Albania for a planned offensive. " Thanks Les for this very informative article. The Iranians, Turks and other Moslem countries have been supplying the Moslem Kosovar terrorists for many years. The US State Dept. recognized this last year and declared the KLA(Kosovar Liberation Army) a terrorist organization. The US-NATO aggression is now backing the terrorist KLA to capture Kosovo for the Moslems and expel the Christian Serbians from the territory. Emile

To: Les H who wrote (2478)	4/7/1999 2:22:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 17770

Macedonia Said Forcing Refugees Into Albania LONDON (Reuters) - The Kosovo refugee crisis deepened Wednesday, with Macedonia busing thousands of people across its territory to Albania, Yugoslavia preventing others from reaching either country and growing wrangles in the west over how to deal with the human tide. At least 14,000 Kosovo Albanians arrived in southeastern Albania Wednesday, saying they had been brought there against their will by Macedonian police after fleeing from Kosovo to Blace at the other end of Macedonia. The Albanian news agency ATA said the refugees had been forced to board buses and maltreated by Macedonian police. ''Yesterday evening they made us get on buses, hitting us with batons,'' it quoted one man as saying. He said he had spent four days trying to enter Macedonia after fleeing from Kosovo. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said some 10,000 people were in a sports stadium in the town of Korce and there were 4,000 more in the area. ''They are all from Blace and more are coming,'' OSCE spokesman Andrea Angeli told Reuters in Tirana. ATA added that not a single international relief agency was present in Korce. The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said earlier in Rome that some 35,000 refugees from Blace had disappeared overnight and remained unaccounted for. The UNHCR said the field at Blace where they had been stranded for several days in a no-man's-land between Kosovo and Macedonia was now completely deserted. ''Nobody ever counted the people at Blace but there were probably about 60,000 in all so the rest of the people must have been taken somewhere else,'' spokesman Kris Janowski told a news conference. ''We know only that 25,000 people have been taken to a transit center nearby ... We do not know what happened to the rest of the people.'' Yugoslavia closed the main border crossings from Kosovo into Albania and Macedonia Wednesday, abruptly halting the flow of refugees. Albania's Morina border post, through which most of Albania's estimated 280,000 Kosovo refugees have poured since NATO began air strikes on Yugoslavia two weeks ago, was deserted. At Jazince on the Macedonian border, Reuters reporters saw Yugoslav police turning cars full of refugees around and sending them back into Kosovo. Even before they began to do so, Macedonia had severely restricted the entry of refugees into its territory, saying their numbers exceeded its capacity to care for them. International aid agencies estimated Tuesday that no fewer than 20,000 Kosovans were waiting at this border point in a line stretching some 18 miles back into Kosovo. By late Wednesday most or all of them had gone. There was no word on their whereabouts. In Brussels, NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said that Tuesday, before the closures, 42,000 ethnic Albanians had been expelled from Kosovo, bringing the number forced to flee their homes over the past year of conflict to about 912,000. European Union aid Commissioner Emma Bonino criticized the world community for sending displaced ethnic Albanians abroad against their will, saying it amounted to ''deportation'' and was helping Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. ''I don't want to see any more what I have seen at the airports, where people are treated like parcels. We are not Milosevic's beasts,'' Bonino told a news conference. Bonino, speaking ahead of a meeting of EU interior ministers in Luxembourg, said she continued to hold reservations about plans to airlift refugees out of the region. The EU, she said, should concentrate its efforts on keeping them nearer home. ''I think that the policy remains that the first priority is to keep these people as much as possible in their region. I strongly believe that, because the situation is so volatile (that) even if you lift 50,000 ... Milosevic can push (out) another 100,000 tomorrow morning,'' she said. In Macedonia Wednesday a NATO official said displaced ethnic Albanians would no longer be separated from their families or sent to foreign countries against their will. At Stenkovec airfield, between the Macedonian capital Skopje and the border with Kosovo, refugee numbers swelled to about 25,000. Thousands of people lined up to register for flights to Germany, according to Reuters reporters at the scene. Many others said they would only leave the area to return to Kosovo.