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To: genejockey who wrote (34455)	5/4/1999 12:17:00 PM
From: RavenCrazy	Respond to of 122087

O/T Kosovar refugees; this report just arrived from Skopje: I just got back from the camps. The officials say that yesterday 11.000 people crossed the border fleeing from Kosova into Macedonia. That has been the largest number of the refugees in the last couple of weeks to cross the border in one day. And these people are in a terrible situation, forced out of their homes at gunpoint; they had to walk for over 20 miles so that they could reach some sort of a sanctuary. And instead of that they got to the camps. It's been raining last night and all this morning too. If you could only see these sights, women and children, exhausted, getting inside the tent where instead of a warm place they have to lay down on a simple blanket which can not provide the much needed warmth. And they all tell the same story: We had to leave or stay and be killed or massacred. With the last influx of the refugees the camps are now overloaded and it seems that they can't except any more people. But the people who came in the last few days say that we ought to expect thousands more to come across. The official numbers say that there are 96.700 refugees inside six camps and 93.370 sheltered in the houses of the natives. And there are a lot of them that haven't been registered at all, since they had to cross the border illegally through the mountains still covered with snow. Many of them died along the way, of hunger, from the cold or from the serbian mines planted along the border. As an example of Macedonia being overcrowded the officials pointed out the city of Tetovo which originally had 50.000 inhabitants. Now the number of the living there is 84.000, that means that the population has increased for the third of it's original number. There has been an announcement that the Western countries will take up to 4.000 people within the next week. Will that be enough? Not likely. These people need help, lots of it, and they need it fast. There are children there, actually a large number of them. It's hard enough just being a refugee, but when I see all these people and the conditions they live in, I just forget about myself. I'll keep you informed about any change of the situation. Hoping for a better tomorrow Eddie ____________________________________ From Raven (Lisa). Eddie is a refugee himself, working for TV ERA and Mother Tereza. Anyone who might want to help those two organizations directly without going through us can contact him or Gasmond Weho at: TVERA@UNET.com.mk or 011-389-91-136-553 As a result of emails to a group of former MTEI shareholders yesterday, we are being sent $1330. About 1200 blankets! Thanks again to those here who have PM'd. Raven K_refugees@hotmail.com geocities.com