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To: The Philosopher who wrote (9947)	5/26/1999 5:56:00 PM
From: RavenCrazy	Respond to of 17770

Re: the "Internet Friends" Volunteers in Skopje. Dana just sent this email. I am learning more and more of the Macedonian v. Albanian refugee problem. There is a STORY here, if only I could get it to the right reporter. There must be SOMEONE on this board interested in something besides political dilletanting - Dana writes, verbatim: This has been as bad a day for the internet here as we've had. This is the first time I've been able, and I've tried for hours. Here's today's report: Dusty tried earlier to get a connection, but failed, so I'm doing this offline in a Notepad document to send later. I had thought we'd go to the Blace refugee camp today, but Michael was tied up with problems at the tv station, so we didn't make it. We'll get to it tomorrow, I hope. With Michael having to leave in a rush this morning, we finished our coffee and caught a cab to the tv station. There we found 3 young Albanian men telling their story of being stopped and beaten last night by Macedonian police who were ethnic Serbs as the young men were returning from a trip to bring meat to a village close to the border where refugees were staying. It's not an uncommon occurance, apparently. At first, they had thought it better to say nothing about the incident, but friends convinced them to go to TV-ERA and tell their story. I saw the whelts on their backs as they stood in front of the camera with their shirts off, just three shy young kids, trying to do something for their people. Just another day, another sad little story. At least they weren't in Kosova, and these Serbs weren't Milosovic's goons, or things would have been much worse. ________________________________________ Raven geocities.com