Word: macedonia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past few days, the flow of refugees into Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro has slowed from the flood of the previous weeks. The bordering nations and international relief agencies have begun the task of caring for the dispossessed; the U.S. and other NATO nations must do as mush as possible to assist them...
During the NATO attack, the already horrendous refugee situation in the region has worsened. Serb police have escalated their cleansing campaign, massacring civilians and burning villages. Thousands of innocents have been streaming across the border into neighboring Macedonia and Albania proper, overwhelming aid agencies...
...meantime, we only hope that relief workers can keep pace with the constant stream of victims. The United States and its allies must provide the effort with all of the resources it needs. Also, while we appreciate the enormous burden it entails, we hope Macedonia and other states in the region will keep their borders open...
...ground inside Yugoslavia--and the astonishing story of the rescue of the downed pilot. Earlier in the week U.S. embassies from Moscow to Paris were besieged by furious Serbs, American allies like Italy and Greece nervously waffled on their support for the bombing, and neighboring states from Albania to Macedonia were convulsed by the prospect of ethnic violence. Inside Yugoslavia, in what may come to be regarded as the worst of the secondary effects of the strike, Serbian troops stepped up their campaign against Kosovo's Albanian citizens, squeezing the province in a pincer movement that stabbed south from Belgrade...
Kosovar civilians appeared to be in even more jeopardy. On the Kosovo-Macedonia border, refugee flows sped up. "We walked 21 hours through the snow," Jrfete Jdrizi, 20, said as she stood near the border with her 75-year-old aunt. "I was almost crawling at the end." But reports trickling out of the province from aid workers and refugees described a horror show of massacres, forced marches and destroyed villages. The tales were hard to confirm, but early CIA findings seemed to buttress the allegations. News of the possible atrocities set off the spin machine at the White House...