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To: nuke44 who wrote (5068)	4/22/1999 7:29:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

If, in the end, NATO brings a stop to this brutal, internecine war,>> You are joking, right? They started the war, now their only hope to return it to pre-war or partition conditions Also, never mind Stalin, you forgot Guatemala (250,000 dead), Argentina, Rwanda, Angola, Sudan, Kongo, Indonesia, Russia -many thousands of Chechnians killed (far less than Albanians), North Korea and on..

To: nuke44 who wrote (5068)	4/22/1999 8:06:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

Indian Village Attack by Militia Members Leaves 12 Lower-Caste People Dead Sindani, India, April 22 (Bloomberg) -- Members of the Ranbir Sena private militia entered an east Indian village and opened fire, killing 12 lower-caste people, the Associated Press reported, citing police. The slayings, which took place in the village of Sindani, 530 miles southeast of New Delhi, is believed to be an act of retaliation for communist rebel slayings of 35 upper-caste Hindus last month in Bihar, a state where a caste war has begun, police said. Yesterday's attack was the sixth major caste-related massacre in that state in the past six months, AP said. Last year, an attack on an Indian Kashmiri village by suspected separatist guerrillas killed 29 people, mostly Hindus. (AP 4/22 www.nytimes.com) ©1999 Bloomberg L.P. All rights reserved. Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Trademarks.

To: nuke44 who wrote (5068)	4/23/1999 5:08:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

So better do something than nothing before coherent plan? Think again... U.N. Struggles On With Kosovo Refugee Flood 03:51 p.m Apr 23, 1999 Eastern GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations, admitting it was taken surprise by the tidal wave of refugees from Kosovo, appealed for more money Friday to tackle the worst humanitarian crisis in Europe since the end of World War II. With hundred of thousands of ethnic Albanians either displaced from their homes or forced to flee to neighboring countries, Switzerland and Finland joined the list of European states who have said they will take in some of the dispossessed. Western governments have expressed fears that the refugee flood could have catastrophic effects in countries like Macedonia and Albania, which lack the resources to deal with them and might even be drawn into a wider conflict. U.N. agencies have appealed for $625 million to fund relief operations and for them to take refugees evacuated from the region, officials in Geneva said Friday. The amount requested is based on the needs of 950,000 refugees and is intended to cover operations from April to June. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that around 600,000 refugees from Kosovo are now living in countries close to the Serbian province, including Albania and Macedonia. The vast majority fled in the past month. NATO, which began air strikes against Yugoslavia a month ago, says they were forced out by a Serb campaign of ethnic cleansing -- a view supported by most aid agencies and by the refugees themselves. Belgrade denies this and says the alliance air strikes caused the refugee crisis. ''You could have said that there might be some refugees after NATO started air strikes,'' UNHCR Director for Europe Anne-Willem Bijleveld said at the Hague. ''What was not expected was the manner of the organized deportation.'' In Geneva, U.N. spokeswoman Therese Gastaut said the world body's agencies had so far received $180 million from donors to cover the Kosovo relief operation. The agencies said they would soon outline contingency plans for coping with up to 1,250,000 people in the second half of the year. Bijleveld said he recognized the UNHCR had been slow to start evacuating refugees from the region to other countries and that it could not have foreseen the scale of the crisis. ''It is difficult to take measures before (an event) as we don't have the finances. All we can do is convince countries to pay up for each operation,'' he said. Bijleveld said the UNHCR had received assurances from 28 countries temporarily to accommodate 85,000 refugees in Europe and 30,000 outside, mainly in the United States. In Europe, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Romania have agreed to accept the most refugees, he said. Turkey has also accepted several thousand while the United States has drawn up plans for long-term food aid for the refugees. Bijleveld said the urgent need to move refugees from Macedonia could not be exaggerated. ''A great stream of refugees could seriously disturb the ethnic balance and raise tensions,'' he said. ''We were fearful that if the (evacuation) program were not undertaken, then Macedonia could erupt in civil war.'' Bijleveld, recently returned from Macedonia, was in The Hague to talk with Dutch authorities who have agreed to accept 2,000 refugees. The Swiss government said Friday it would take in up to 2,500 refugees from the overflowing camps in Macedonia and Finland said it would take in around 1,000 people. According to the latest UNHCR figures, about 360,000 refugees are in Albania, 132,000 in Macedonia, 68,000 in Montenegro, 32,000 in Bosnia and around 17,000 have been evacuated from Macedonia to Western countries. Estimates of the number of ethnic Albanians still inside Kosovo range between 400,000 and 800,000. Before the crisis, ethnic Albanians made up more than 90 percent of the province's nearly two million-strong population. Now, UNHCR admits it will have its hands full if faced with another large-scale exodus. ''It's going to be extremely difficult,'' UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski said. ''We're certainly not out of the woods yet.'' Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.