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To: robnhood who wrote (8487)	5/14/1999 10:22:00 PM
From: Enigma	Respond to of 17770

The Times - May 15 May 15 1999 BALKANS WAR Nato air raid 'kills 100 Albanians' FROM EVE-ANN PRENTICE IN BELGRADE Nato bombing blunders AT LEAST 100 ethnic Albanians were killed and scores injured by Nato cluster bombs in Kosovo during the heaviest night of alliance air raids so far, according to survivors and Serbian officials. Many of those who perished were refugees fleeing the war in Kosovo, said dazed survivors who were surrounded by the charred and mutilated bodies of friends and relatives. Nato said it was investigating the incident. If confirmed, it would mark the highest number of civilian casualties in a single airstrike since the alliance campaign began. Tractors and trailers were still smouldering in streets littered with the dead yesterday, more than 12 hours after the reported Nato attack on the village of Korisa, near the Albanian border. Serbian forces are reported to have forcibly evicted hundreds of people from the area in the past few days. Korisa, near Prizren, was overflowing with 500 refugees who had recently been hiding in woods when the Nato bombers struck with between six and eight missiles just before midnight on Thursday, the survivors said. A second wave of bombs was dropped over a wider area a couple of hours later, Serbian defence officials claimed. Korisa lies just off a highway leading from Prizren to Suva Reka, where Nato has been concentrating attacks on Yugoslav forces this week. Serbian officials claimed there was no military target near the bombed village. Yesterday's scenes of slaughter came after a night of intense alliance action which also saw electricity supplies cut across much of Serbia when graphite bombs were used to attack power stations near Belgrade and in Novi Sad and Nis. Other targets across Serbia included airfields, military radio relay sites, bridges and oil storage facilities. The heaviest pounding, though, took place in Kosovo where missiles hit the capital, Pristina, Pec, Dakovica and Urosevac, according to the Yugoslav state news agency, Tanjug. The power cuts have led to a sharp increase in the price of long-lasting food in Serbia, as people begin to rely less on freezers to store perishable goods. But while day-to-day hardships, such as blackouts, are beginning to make many Serbs war-weary, reports of Nato attacks on citizens merely serve to bolster most Serbs' morale. In Sofia, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry said that a missile landed in Bulgaria yesterday, the sixth since the conflict began on March 24, but there were no casualties or damage. It added that the writing on the missile was in Russian, leading investigators to suspect the weapon had been fired by Serb anti-aircraft defences. The projectile fell in farmland outside the village of Varbovo, six miles from the Yugoslav border. Nato bombing blunders April 5, Aleksinac: Up to 17 killed when Nato bombs miss army barracks. April 9, Pristina: Homes and telephone exchange bombed. April 12, Leskovac: Up to 55 killed when Nato bombs train. April 14, Dakovica: Up to 75 refugees killed when Nato attacks convoy. April 14, Meja: Small convoy and C-shaped building bombed, refugees killed. April 28, Surdulica: Up to 20 killed when Nato bombs houses instead of army barracks. May 1, Luzane: Up to 47 killed when Nato bombs bus. May 3, NIS: Up to 15 killed when Nato bombs miss landing strip. May 3, Pec: Up to 20 killed when Nato bombs bus. May 8, Belgrade: 3 killed when Nato bombs Chinese embassy. May 14, Korisa: Up to 100 refugees killed when Nato attacks village. Lake Garda: Jettisoned bombs land in water near tourist beach. Nato jets dump bombs off Venice Clinton phones Beijing to say sorry So happy to be safe over here Marmite strategy shunned this time Media warriors make a killing Hillary joins the star trek Return to Contents page Copyright 1999 Times Newspapers Ltd. This service is provided on Times Newspapers' standard terms and conditions. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material from The Times, visit the Syndication website.

To: robnhood who wrote (8487)	5/14/1999 10:27:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

rrman, Who the hell do you think laid out the framework for the UN, NAZI Germany?? (Ever heard of Bretton-Woods or the League of Nations?) Where is it headquartered?? Who provides the majority of support for its peace-keeping missions?? The UN is eventually the framwork for a world gov't. BUT THAT GOV'T HAS TO GUARANTEE THE FREEDOMS OF EACH INDIVIDUAL AND ETHNICITY. With those guarantees, each nation will retain a certain measure of guarantees such as are reserved for individual states in the US. The alternative is a perpetual future of ethnic conflict and petty hatreds that will only end when a victor arises, or humanity becomes so war-weary that they decide to live together in peace. Regards, Ron