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Lott said Serbian forces appear to be withdrawing under threat of a NATO strike and asked why, in "what appears will be three weeks before an election, we are going to go in and bomb some artillery tubes inside Kosovo...
...plight is familiar across the Yugoslav province. From Podujevo in the north almost to the suburbs of the capital of Pristina, Kosovo is ablaze as Serbian security forces pursue their deadly dismantling of the ethnic-Albanian rebellion. First comes artillery fire, targeting suspected Kosovo Liberation Army bases in a village. Then armored infantry rolls in to take over the town. Finally foot soldiers arrive, looting and burning, to strike terror among ethnic-Albanian villagers. Despite the first snows in the mountains, hundreds of thousands flee their homes. Some find shelter with relatives, others in neighboring Albania or Montenegro, but tens...
...very concerned about the situation in Kosovo, in the Yugoslav Serbian Republic. The province of Kosovo has about 2 million people, more than 90 percent of whom are ethnic Albanians. Using the excuse of fighting the Albanian guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the Serbian Army (15,000 troops) and police (6,000 troops) have systematically attacked innocent Albanian civilians whose only crime has been their existence in their own homeland...
...meantime, Western Europe, the United States and NATO have not yet taken any effective action to halt the Serbians' grave violations of human rights or to help the hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees whose only shelter has been the open sky. We urge the Harvard community to take all possible effective action, as soon as possible, to help to avert disaster and to protect the Kosovo refugees, who are now exposed not only to the harshness of the Balkan winter, but also to Serbian attacks...
...recipient of a hero's funeral, Lugar was wanted for ordering the execution of 16 civilians in May 1992 and killing two others himself. While the murder of Lugar seems ordinary, his lawyer, TATOMIR LEKOVIC, claims Lugar was assassinated because he knew too much about the roles top Serbian officials played in the Bosnian war, a credible assertion given that the accused killer works for Slobodan Milosevic's secret service. Though the Serbian Interior Ministry denies a connection, at least four other wanted men have been killed, including RADOVAN STOJICIC BADZA, the militia commander who became the Serbian Deputy Minister...