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To: Machaon who wrote (3771)	4/14/1999 10:53:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

World: Europe Air strikes 'kill refugees' Wreckage: Serb media say Nato is responsible Dozens of refugees are reported to have been killed in air strikes on two civilian convoys in Kosovo on Wednesday. The Serbs said Nato had attacked Kosovo Albanians as they travelled along the Prizren-Djakovica road in the west of the province. In a separate incident on the road to Albania from Prizren, Yugoslav aircraft were reported to have attacked another refugee convoy. Serb media said 64 people had been killed and 20 wounded in the Nato attack. State television has released pictures of the dead and wounded. The Pentagon has acknowledged that Nato planes broke off a bombing raid on a column of military vehicles near Djakovica after seeing civilian vehicles. The Pentagon withdrew earlier allegations that Serbs troops had attacked a civilian convoy after military targets were hit. A Pentagon official told the BBC: "We do not know whether the convoy was military, civilian or a combination of the two." BBC Washington Correspondent Paul Reynolds says it appears that Nato aircraft might well have been responsible for the casualties. However, the Nato strikes seemed to be continuing. A large explosion rocked central Belgrade at 0130 local time on Thursday, following heavy anti-aircraft fire around the city. An eyewitness said he saw red flames leaping into the sky. In a separate incident, refugees reaching Albania said that Yugoslav aircraft had attacked a column between Prizren and Kukes, in Albania. Two tractors were said to have been destroyed. Albania's opposition Democratic Party said refugees arriving from Kosovo had reported that Serbian helicopters had attacked them on Wednesday, killing at least 40 people and wounding many others. Refugees crossing into Northern Albania on Wednesday night told the BBC that they had seen 15-20 bodies after their convoy had come under air attack. They said they were being forced out of Kosovo into Albania when they were attacked. They said that after hearing at least one explosion they saw Serb police and military units in the area. The incidents came two days after a Nato aircraft hit a passenger train in an attempt to destroy a bridge in southern Serbia - 27 people are reported to have died in that attack. (Click here for map of latest strikes) Intensive talks The reports of the air strikes came as EU leaders and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan met to try to find a solution to the three-week conflict. Germany put forward a peace plan focusing on using the UN as a mediator. It proposed that Nato should call a 24-hour ceasefire if Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic began to pull forces out of the province. Nato said Germany's plan was "useful" but had no official status. Food fears Within Kosovo, the United Nations food agency has warned that refugees trapped in the province are facing a severe and long-term food shortage. It said Kosovo's agricultural and food-processing industries have been devastated, with most fields abandoned and huge numbers of livestock dead. Western officials have given conflicting numbers of the number of displaced ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine put the figure at 200,000, saying they were grouped in three different regions of the province. But UK Development Secretary Clare Short put the number at 800,000. Latest UN figures say 536,000 people have fled Kosovo - half of them to Albania. news.bbc.co.uk

To: Machaon who wrote (3771)	4/14/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Robert why you believe that Milosevic is a problem? By all accounts he was one of the more moderate voices toward Kosovo in Serbian Establishment..The worst scenario would be if Milosevic accepts NATO condition..what that would mean that Albanians (KLA) return under NATO protection and lot of NATO troops would come back in body bags shot by snipers,,Just a reminder over 30,000 Nazi troops were killed...it took 6 days for them to occupy Serbia, they wished they never did..