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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (3671)	4/14/1999 2:07:00 PM
From: Milk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Wednesday April 14 1:40 PM ET Serbs Say NATO Hit Refugee Convoys BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia reported heavy loss of life among Kosovo Albanian refugees struck by NATO missiles Wednesday as European Union leaders gathered in Brussels to discuss a German peace plan. German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Russia had ''almost fully agreed'' to his plan to suspend air strikes for 24 hours if Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic started pulling troops out of Kosovo. But he said Russia still had concerns over the make-up of an international peacekeeping force for Kosovo, for which Germany is trying to win Moscow's consent to a United Nations mandate. The United States said it would not even discuss a bombing pause until Yugoslavia accepted all Western demands, including NATO command over any peace force. Kosovo's Serb-run Media Center meanwhile reported that NATO missiles had killed 70 ethnic Albanian refugees in two separate strikes on refugee convoys in Western Kosovo. ''In the village of Meja, 64 people were killed and 20 wounded including three Serb policemen who were escorting the convoy,'' a media center official said by telephone from the regional capital Pristina. ''In the village of Zrze, six people were killed and 11 wounded,'' he said. NATO military sources in Brussels said alliance warplanes attacked vehicles on the Prizren-Djakovica road in western Kosovo but there would be no comment on reported refugee deaths until film from returning planes was studied. The Media Center said the NATO attacks were both on columns of ethnic Albanian refugees, one of them containing several thousand people on tractors and in cars. It said the three wounded policemen had also died. NATO says it is targeting only military, or military-related sites in its air campaign, but has admitted that its missiles have missed three times. Yugoslavia's Beta news agency said Wednesday the death toll on a train hit by NATO Monday might be as high as 27. NATO Commander General Wesley Clark has apologised for the attack, saying it was an ''uncanny accident'' that the train crossed on a bridge during an attack. Ten bodies have been recovered and Beta said 17 were still missing. In Washington, the White House said it was consulting Germany, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, about Bonn's six-stage plan. The proposal includes a pause in the air war but ''we have to have complete acceptance on the other issues, and we will address a potential cessation of bombing when we get there,'' said spokesman Joe Lockhart. NATO demands that Yugoslavia withdraw its forces from Kosovo, allow refugees to return, accept an international peacekeeping force in Kosovo and agree to a peace deal with Kosovo's ethnic Albanians. Lockhart reiterated the U.S. insistence that any peacekeeping force for Kosovo be under NATO command -- a condition Russia has repeatedly rejected. The 15 EU leaders were scheduled to examine the German plan during the evening after hearing the views of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. In Belgrade air raid sirens wailed as President Slobodan Milosevic made his first appearance before foreign journalists since the air war began three weeks ago. Looking calm in a blue raincoat, he hugged Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko. As they spoke, loud explosions were heard in Belgrade and Serbia's second city Novi Sad. Belgrade reported that NATO planes had targeted a hydroelectric plant and hit a company building five times in overnight raids. A railway bridge linking Belgrade to the Adriatic port of Bar in Montengro was slightly damaged, the official Tanjug news agency reported. NATO has intensified air raids this week and asked for an extra 300 aircraft from the United States to bring its air armada up to some 1,100 planes. In Macedonia, some 1,200 ethnic Albanians were reported to have fled the fighting in Kosovo, indicating Belgrade had opened a small escape corridor for refugees still trapped in the region. Western officials say thousands of Kosovo Albanians uprooted from their burnt-out homes could die in the coming days if food does not reach them, but NATO is in no position to air-drop supplies into the battlefield. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata said intense fighting made it unsafe even for a neutral country to take food to thousands stranded in Kosovo. Kosovo guerrillas accused Serbian forces of killing more than 1,000 Kosovo Albanians over the past four days in the central Drenica region. International monitors reported that Serb forces had fired 40 mortar rounds into northern Albania, apparently aiming at Kosovo guerrillas. Some of the mortar bombs landed near a village school but no one was hurt.

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (3671)	4/14/1999 2:15:00 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

George, Have you noticed that the R word ie. "rape" only came up in the last week or 10 days.. You would have thought that has going on since the beginning.. and reports of it when first refugees came out, that is if there were any refugees before the bombing started.. Jamie and staff are probably trying to come with some new "horrible, horrible atrocities,, how about "forced labor, concentration camps ,nerve gas, chemical and biologial warfare,?????? or other "hot button" words.. I don't know.., it is a very sad and sorry situation..

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (3671)	4/14/1999 3:10:00 PM
From: Jacalyn Deaner	Respond to of 17770

Raven - if you are out there please pm me the organization tht is taking care of BOTH sides that need food, clothing, housing and essentials. After I responded to you, the message was deleted. If they hae a web site could you give that to me too? Thanks, Jacalyn I ruffled my great dane's ears and he groaned with satisfaction, told him it was from your baby! Thanks

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (3671)	4/14/1999 3:49:00 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

<< No they will just blame it on evil Slob...just like Robert Barry does. >> The situation if Kosovo is not hard to figure out. The Serbs are burning village after village after village and moving the Kosovo Albanians out of their homes and/or murdering them. So, what do the Kosovo Albanians do without food or shelter? Anyone have any ideas? Are the Serbs providing food, medicine and shelter to those that they have just savagely victimized? Of course not. This is not rocket science. You don't need a graduated degree to know what would happen to 500,000 people without food, shelter or medical care, in freezing weather, for a short period of time. This is GENOCIDE by the Serbs. Pure and simple. So, of course, after the Serbs murder and rape, they will blame it on NATO. And, many people who can't see the writing on the wall will blame the NATO heroes instead of the vicious, Serb killers.