The locals from Llaushė are taken to Deviē Monastery for execution

Skėnderaj, 8 August (ARTA) 2000CET

An information of LDSH (Albanian Democratic Movement), grounded on field sources states that the Serb police and military forces continue to burn the Skėnderaj municipal villages. After continuously having shelled Polac, the Serb police started plundering the local houses and burning them afterward, one by one.

There is still no information about what happened with a large number of Llaushė residents, who couldn't escape before the Serb police entered the village. According to local sources, the Serb police are sending local people to Deviē Monastery for execution.

The conditions of the escapees who are still staying in the forests are catastrophic. They are lacking food, clothing, medicines and medical treatment, states the information issued by the LDSH. Furthermore, "the people that have escaped in the forests are appealing for assistance of the humanitarian organizations, in order to KOSOVA (evacuation - Drenica)

The ICRC brought 55 persons from Tushilė

Mitrovicė, 8 August (ARTA) 1900CET

Mitrovicė is still in focus of IDPs arriving from the Drenica villages that are being shelled by the Serb police and military forces.

According to an official communiqué issued today by "Mother Teresa Association" in Mitrovicė, more than 40.000 people have found shelter in this municipality. The Association has registered 21.272 IDPs and the teams are evidencing others who are sheltered in Mitrovicė. Mitrovicė has hosted displaced from 52 villages of Skėnderaj, Malishevė, Klinė e Begut, Gllogoc, Suharekė, Vushtrri, Sheshi i Vjetėr as well as from Tuneli i Parė in Mitrovicė.

According to "Koha Ditore" sources in the village of Vėrboc (Gllogoc municipality), precisely in the valley called Lugu i Mollave and forests nearby, between 4.000 and 5.000 people have settled, and there the situation is very bad. They are in bad need for medicines, sanitary materials and food.

Yesterday evening, at 2030CET, an ICRC truck transported 55 persons to Mitrovicė. They had been stuck in the village of Tushilė. One of the persons transported, declared that there are still around 4.000 people remaining in the village of Tushilė, in a very serious conditions, and they also need medicines and food.

Donelly handed the Contact group "draft-document" for the solution of the Kosova problem to Rugova

Prishtina, 8 August (ARTA) 1600CET--

The British ambassador to Belgrade, Brian Donelly, handed "The Viewpoints of the Contact Group" to the representatives of "FRY" Government in Belgrade. On Saturday, he gave Rugova the "offer" whose contents are unknown yet for the public. The text of the Contact Group is referred to as a document that "will help the parties sit and dialogue".

"I came to hand Rugova a draft-document of the Contact Group, which has posed various ideas of how the problems in Kosova could be solved", stated the British Ambassador.

"We hope that both parties will observe this document (idea), which will help them to resume the talks. And we think they have to start talking, by all means" declared Donelly after leaving the Rugova's premises in Prishtina.

"Quitting the mutual hostilities and the fighting, the return of the displaced to their homes are the actual priorities" said he.

"The Serb authorities have promised this, we hope this will become a reality. The International Community is on its way to help on its realization," said Donelly additionally.

The British ambassador said that "...an immediate priority is to insure safety, and this is something that would enable the negotiations. We think that only a solution through negotiations is possible, and this has to be achieved in circumstances of no war.

The war must stop, and the sooner it happens, the sooner the parties will start conversations".

The representatives of "FRY" in Belgrade evaluated the "offer" of Contact Group as positive and, among other things, it was stated that "it expresses the clear and unified attitude that the separatist ideas and that of Republic of Kosova have to be recalled". On the other hand, there was no immediate comment to the "offer" by Rugova.