Note: Place namesrendered primarily in Serbian spelling.
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"We are beginning to see evidence of a potential genocide. There is no
reason to believe that [Serbian forces] are not acting on orders."
White House spokesman Joe Lockhart
March 30 - Washington
"The pattern that emerges is paramilitary forces arriving, rounding people
up and telling them at gunpoint to go. So we are seeing officially
sanctioned ethnic cleansing of the Albanian population in Kosovo."
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees spokesman Kris Janowski
Quoted by Associated Press, March 29 - Geneva
"[Milosevic is] working very, very fast trying to present the world with a
fait accompli, to change the demographics of Kosovo. He's doing this very
quickly... They are trying to accelerate ethnic cleansing and get away with
it... This [NATO air strikes] is a campaign that is a long way from being
over militarily."
US General Wesley Clark
Quoted by Reuters, March 29 - Brussels
"There are a lot of ominous indicators in Kosovo right now. Let me say that
the abhorrent and criminal actions in a massive scale are occurring in
Kosovo. These include ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against
humanity -- all arising out of atrocities committed by Milosevic's forces.
There are indicators that genocide is unfolding in Kosovo, but we are
looking at a mixture of confirmed and unconfirmed reports at this time...
we can clearly say crimes against humanity are being committed."
US State Department spokesman James Rubin
March 29 - Washington
"Europe cannot accept on its soil a man and a regime that, for nearly 10
years, has conducted... operations of ethnic cleansing, murders and
massacres, of destablization in the entire region, resulting in more than
200,000 deaths and millions left homeless. It is enough... Today we must
stop the spiral of barbarity and take away from this regime the means to
conduct such operations."
France's President Jacques Chirac
Quoted by Reuters and Agence France Presse, March 29 - Paris
"Pec was a city of 100,000 people. We now have reports that it has been
almost totally destroyed. We also have reports of people, thousands of
people from Prizren being forced to leave on a forced march towards the
Albanian border... This is something that we haven't seen since the forced
evacuation of Phnom Penh in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge in the mid 1970s.
And sustained Serbian attacks on Pristina, the chief city of Kosovo, are
continuing."
NATO Spokesman Jamie Shea
March 30 - Brussels
"Hundreds of thousands of Kosovars are fleeing in despair from their
Serbian murderers... If the weather does not warm up, they will die from
the cold in the woods."
Democratic League of Kosovo official Hafiz Gagica, in a letter to NATO
Secretary-General Javier Solana
Quoted by Agence France Presse, March 30 - Stuttgart
"Tell NATO that Pec is burning, and where are the ground troops?"
Nejmije Kelmendi, ethnic Albanian refugee fleeing Pec
Quoted by Associated Press, March 29 - near Pec
"I've seen them [Serbian forces] shooting men in the head at close range...
There were four hundred of us hiding in the mountains and they surrounded
us, dividing men from women. There are still thousands in the mountains.
When we passed Kacanik I saw seven people dead on the road today."
Ethnic Albanian refugee Ismail Luta
March 30 - Rozaje, Montenegro
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I . REFUGEES FLOOD OUT OF KOSOVO; PRISTINA RESIDENTS FORCED INTO STADIUM;
MASSACRES, ROUND-UPS, EXPULSIONS CONTINUE
The Washington Post reported today that "for the first time, government
troops have ordered whole suburbs of Pristina evacuated, refugees reported.
Seasoned Balkans watchers compared the tactic of emptying suburbs to
preparations made by the Bosnian Serbs in advance of their... siege of
Sarajevo during the Bosnian war earlier this decade... In the first signs
of an impending exodus from Pristina, a long column of cars carrying ethnic
Albanians and ethnic Turks reportedly fled the city this morning." The New
York Times today cited an ethnic Albanian living in Washington who had
spoken on the phone with his family saying "[that] the villages of Sosali
and Matican to the east of the city had been shelled, leaving a line
several miles long of people in cars and on foot heading for the border of
Macedonia." When asked Tuesday 3/30 about the exodus of people from the
city, US Defense Department spokesman Ken Bacon said "I don't doubt that
that's happening, but I have not seen any pictures that would suggest
that's the case." Reuters Monday 3/29 reported that "the northern part
of...Pristina burned...from fires set by Serbian troops and paramilitaries
in revenge for NATO attacks, local residents said... The fires broke out in
Pristina... in a section of the city that is 98% ethnic Albanian and where
many aid organizations and diplomatic missions have offices, residents
said... Residents said there was no access to the area because a police
tank and large numbers of police blocked a bridge connecting the district
to the rest of Pristina." Albania's state-run television reported Monday
3/29 that according to sources in Kosovo, Pristina inhabitants are being
forcefully evicted, and vehicles full of explosives placed near buildings
where ethnic Albanians live. Radio B-92 (Belgrade) Monday 3/29 reported
learning "that a large number of women and children are being evacuated
from the city."
The Washington Post report also noted that "a relief worker from Pristina
said that tanks guard many city intersections and food is running short
because shops have been looted and burned. Telephones of Albanians have
been disconnected." The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
(IHF) reported today that "parts of [Pristina] are ablaze as is the case
with scores of other towns in Kosovo. According to reports reaching the
IHF, residents indicate that they are afraid to leave the burning city for
fear of apprehension by death squads and other groups that extort monies in
return for safe passage." Humanitarian sources in the region report that
refugees leaving Pristina for the Yugoslavia - Macedonia border are forced
to pass by as many as seven checkpoints, each manned by soldiers,
paramilitary forces or police, who confiscate cars and foreign currency as
payment for passage.
Agence France Presse Tuesday 3/30 reported that "Kosovo's largest
moderate political party on Tuesday said... armed Serbian forces were
rounding up Albanians and herding them into the city's main stadium...
[Democratic League of Kosovo/LDK official Hafiz Gagica said] 'We are afraid
of a massacre'... in a letter to Solana sent by fax" from Stuttgart. US
State Department spokesman James Rubin Tuesday 3/30 noted that KLA
commander and Kosovo "Prime Minister" Hashim Thaqi in a phone call with
Secretary of State Albright "indicated that people were being held in the
soccer stadium in Pristina... We have... received reports since [yesterday]
of people being moved out of certain neighborhoods of Pristina, and we have
received some horrible oral reports about what is going on there."
NATO spokesman Jamie Shea Monday 3/29 noted that "reliable sources report
that Fehmi Agani, a member of the Kosovo Albanian Delegation at
Rambouillet, principle Rugova advisor and peace negotiator over much of the
past year, was executed on Sunday sometime after he attended the funeral of
Bajram Kelmendi. Four other prominent ethnic Albanians were reportedly
executed on Sunday, including EditorinChief of Koha Ditore, Baton Haxhiu."
The Daily Telegraph (London) reported Tuesday 3/30 that Agani was seen
fleeing Pristina following reports of his death, but Agence France Presse
said Tuesday 3/30 that KLA commander Hashim Thaqi confirmed Agani's death.
The Daily Telegraph (London) reported Tuesday 3/30 that another
assassination victim was poet Din Mehmeti, and quoted OSCE Kosovo
Verification Mission chief William Walker: "It looks like the Serbs are
targeting the sort of moderate, reasonable people working for peace."
Agence France Presse reported Tuesday 3/30 that LDK official Gagica
"confirmed earlier reports by a NATO official that Rugova's house had been
burned down and, citing information obtained by the LDK from Kosovo by
telephone, said the moderate Kosovo leader was wounded. His whereabouts
were unknown."
The Daily Telegraph reported today that "the Pagarusa valley... was
reported to have been surrounding by Serb armour, which was pounding tens
of thousands of ethnic Albanians. Reports of the attack came from Albanian
sources in the province speaking on radios and satellite telephones. They
told of terrified refugees, mainly women and children, with a few men of
fighting age and soldiers from the KLA... A diplomat who spoke to refugees
by satellite telephone said: "The Yugoslav army artillery began shelling
the Pagarusa valley this morning and Serbian security forces were using
tanks and armored personnll carriers to support the attack." Reuters
Tuesday 3/30 reported that "western diplomats, citing separatist guerrilla
sources, said Serbian troops had launched a three-pronged attack on a
valley in central Kosovo where 50,000 ethnic Albanian refugees were
sheltering." The Independent (London) Wednesday (3/31) quoted an unnamed
Western diplomat: "Yugoslav army sources began shelling the Pagarusa Valley
this morning and Serbian security forces were using tanks and armored
personnel carriers to support the attack."
The Washington Post reported Monday 3/29 that "by emerging eyewitness
accounts, hundreds and perhaps thousands of unarmed civilians have been
massacred by Yugoslav forces over the last six days." European Union (EU)
Human Rights Commissioner Emma Bonino said Tuesday 3/30: "We are rightly
concerned about those who have crossed the border, but I fear the worst for
those who are still inside. The tragedy is what we cannot see, that is to
say what is happening to the 1.2 million Kosovars still in Kosovo and of
whom we have no image, no information."
NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said Tuesday 3/30 that 118,000 ethnic Albanians
had fled Kosovo in the last week. The New York Times today reported that "a
Balkans specialist in the [US] administration predicted Tuesday that by the
end of the week, half the Albanian population could be outside the province
and the remainder left crouching in the woods." Associated Press reported
today that "at least eight elderly refugees, exhausted by the journey, died
in a hospital Tuesday in Kukes, Albania." Agence France Presse reported
today that EU Human Rights Commissioner Bonino "said 80,000 to 100,000
Kosovars were already in Albania... [while Albania's] Prime Minister Majko
warned of 100,000 more on their way." The Times (London) reported Tuesday
3/30 that "refugees... were even walking through minefields in their
desperation to reach sanctuary." Associated Press Monday 3/29 quoted UNHCR
official in Tirana Jacques Franqin saying UNHCR "has a contingency plan for
Albania to cope with up to 150,000 refugees, but they...have only five
international staff in place."
Britain's Foreign Secretary Robin Cook Monday 3/29 noted that "we have
also had alarming reports of some of these refugees being herded into
concentration areas by Serb forces, in particular 20,000 refugees being
concentrated around Srbica and a number more further south near Pristina.
We can only estimate and guess at what is the purpose of the concentration
of these refugees, but we remember the way in which many refugees were
herded together and executed by the Serb forces during the civil war in
Bosnia." US State Department spokesman James Rubin said KLA commander
Hashim Thaqi "spoke to [Secretary of State Madeleine Albright] yesterday
and told her that... the gravest situation of all, from his perspective,
was the fate of 20,000 people taken from the Drenica region. The refugees,
mostly women and children, were being held in what he called a kind of
concentration camp in a munitions factory and he was concerned that they
were being held as hostages or human shields." The London Independent
Television News evening news program Monday 3/29 reported that 300 people
in an ammunition depot in Pec "were said to be held hostage as human shields."
In what was called "the most compelling testimony of systematic slaughter
so far," the Times (London) tomorrow quoted an imam who fled to Albania
from the Kosovo village of Brestovac: "The Serbs rounded up all the young
men. There were about 35 people that I knew who were in the main square of
our village. The Serbs then started cutting off their noses. Then they cut
off their ears, broke their legs with rifle butts, and then shot them
down'... said the imam, who brought with him a list of the men he watched die."
Reuters Tuesday 3/30 reported that one refugee, Bardhyl Kabashi "said
15,000 displaced ethnic Albanians from several towns and villages had
[yesterday] sought refuge on a hill near the village of Celline in Kosovo.
'The Serbs came to the hill above Celline at midday yesterday shooting in
the air and telling everybody to sit face down, hands on their heads... He
said he saw one man killed for refusing to chant [ 'Serbia, Serbia' ],
while three other men were pulled away and shot from behind... The
paramilitaries stole money and jewelry before directing the refugees
towards the Albanian border." The Times (London) reported Tuesday 3/30 that
refugees who fled to Albania "told of how they saw young men have their
limbs hacked off by laughing and jeering policemen, who then shot them in
front of their loved ones at...roadblocks... Young men... yelled 'This is
for Clinton,' and 'This is for Blair,' and then rolled grenades into the
terrified refugees" as they "tramped alongside tens of thousands of others"
on the way to Albania. being tied up and then The Times report also noted
that "the scale of the Serb atrocities in Kosovo...was given credence by
the fact that every refugee in Kukes had a similar story. They told of mass
rapes, or men immolated in their homes, or random killings."
The Washington Post reported Tuesday 3/30 that "around noon in the
village of Leshan, Yugoslav army and Interior Ministry troops began
searching house to house, evicting families and forcing them to a nearby
elementary school. As their homes burned and soldiers fired in the air,
5,000 villagers were forced to shout 'Long Live Serbia!' in unison. Men
were separated from women. Then began the long, forced march." The
Washington Post today reported one refugee who had fled Leshan into Albania
"said that...local Serbs set some homes of their former neighbors on fire
as security forces rounded up ethnic Albanians for expulsions."
The Daily Telegraph (London) Tuesday 3/30 reported a 35-year old witness
from Kacanik "told how a neighbor... was shot dead when he was found
outside after everyone was told to stay indoors. He said: 'They were
special police from Belgrade. They looted all the houses and rounded up 15
young men who they suspected of being in the UCK [Kosovo Liberation Army]
and started beating them and cutting them with knives." The Daily Telegraph
report also noted that "refugees said masked paramilitaries were running
around Kacanik, knocking at the houses of Albanian families and shooting
dead whoever opened the door... [Kacanik residents] said Serbian units
forced over 100 men in Kacanik to leave their apartments, marching them
into the local police station... Residents said they suspected that as many
as 200 had been killed."Reuters Tuesday 3/30 cited an account by ethnic
Albanian refugee Florie Kryeziu: "Saturday, masked Serbian military troops
gathered all the people of Mamush in the main square and separated
Albanians from the [ethnic Turks living in the village as well]. 'They took
some of the young Albanian men. They said they would send them to Prizren,
but we still have not heard anything from them."
Britain's Foreign Secretary Cook said Tuesday 3/30 that "we know [the
Serbian paramilitary troops nicknamed "The Tigers" and led by indicted war
criminal Arkan, whose sealed indictment by the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was publicly reported today] are fully
integrated into the Yugoslav Army's 52nd Pristina Corps. We have also heard
that another notorious band of thugs, known as the Vucak Wolves, have left
the Republika Srpska in Bosnia to operate in Kosovo. All our information on
their operations and their positions, and also on the operations of the
Serb Special Police, the MUP, is being passed by us to the International
Criminal Tribunal at The Hague." Reuters Tuesday 3/30 reported that
"besides Pec, the Serb army was also forcing ethnic Albanians and Muslims
out of the nearby town of Istok, which had some 80,000 inhabitants. People
from both towns reported seeing dead bodies... One elderly man said he saw
his next-door neighbors, a father and son, killed by soldiers. He said the
troops were wearing the tiger insignia of the feared Arkan militia."
Agence France Presse Tuesday 3/30 noted that "reports from the
region...said more than 30,000 refugees from Kosovo have arrived since
Saturday...in Montenegro, and 40,000 more were expected." Agence France
Presse also reported local Red Cross official Jusuf Dacic Tuesday 3/30 said
[that] "the organization could not face up to the size of a refugee crisis
unprecedented in Montenegro." Reuters Tuesday 3/30 quoted Montenegro's
President Milo Djukanovic: "A huge flow of refugees, who due to the war
have now been deprived of everything, could now cause political destruction
in Montenegro."
NATO spokesman Jamie Shea Monday 3/29 said that "Serb Police ordered
ethnic Albanians on Sunday to leave Pec by Monday 3/29 or be slaughtered.
On Saturday night, Serbian forces rounded up Albanian men throughout Pec
and marched them off in an unknown direction." Reuters Monday 3/29 noted
that "there have been reports from refugees that Serb paramilitary police
were killing ethnic Albanians in Pec who refused to leave their homes." The
Daily Telegraph (London) Tuesday 3/30 reported that "several" ethnic
Albanian refugees who fled into Albania "described seeing bodies of young
men lying in streets in the town of Pec... A 25-year old woman... said she
saw the bodies of six or seven young men in the street. Another refugee
said there were 15 bodies of young men lying in the main street of town and
more along the road from Pec to the border." The Independent (London)
Wednesday quoted ethnic Albanian refugee Adem Basha: "There are lots of
unburied people in Pec."
Agence France Presse reported Tuesday 3/30 that "according to witnesses,
a refugee column three kilometers long had formed on the Blace border
crossing between Kosovo and Macedonia." Reuters reported Tuesday 3/30 that
"aid officials said just 25 people an hour were being granted entry" into
Kosovo and noted humanitarian organization International Medical Group
official Frank Gutmann "said a nine-month pregnant woman was forced to
stand in a line for several hours before she was permitted to cross into
Macedonia. National Public Radio correspondent Anne Garrels reported that
during a two-hour period this morning, one car was allowed by Macedonian
officials to cross the border. Agence France Presse Monday 3/29 reported
that "a column of between 15,000 and 20,000 more [refugees] was reported
heading for the Yugoslavia-Macedonia border." Reports from the region cited
ethnic Albanian humanitarian sources saying last week the refugee count in
Macedonia was already "greater than 50,000."
The Times (London) reported Tuesday 3/30 that "intelligence sources said
yesterday that about 300 villages in Kosovo had now been destroyed or
severely damaged, and their 350,000 inhabitants driven away." Independent
Television News (London) Monday 3/29 noted accounts by refugees that in
Podujevo, Suva Reka and Orahovac, "men and boys were systematically taken
from their homes and killed." Britain's Foreign Secretary Cook Monday 3/29
said that "reports now include seven villages on fire along the PecKlina
road and villages gutted around Kosovska Mirtovica, the area around
Pristina and the Drenica valley, an extensive programme of ethnic
cleansing." Albania's state-run television reported Monday 3/29 that Kosovo
Liberation Army sources suspect that a mass grave may have been dug near
Rahovec.
The New York Times reported Tuesday 3/30 that "NATO officials said Monday
3/29 that Slobodan Milosevic's military campaign against the ethnic
Albanians in Kosovo was aimed at establishing a Serb-only enclave in the
province to keep after the fighting ends... A European diplomat said the
geographical pattern of the attacks in Kosovo suggested that Milosevic's
police officers and troops were trying to drive out the ethnic Albanians
from lands... in the north and center of the province." When asked Monday
3/29 whether the partition of Kosovo "would be an acceptable political
solution to NATO," Britain's Foreign Minister Cook said that "it is totally
unacceptable... One of the great achievements in the modern age has been to
see the end of apartheid in Africa. We have not celebrated the end of
apartheid in Africa in order to see it recreated within Europe. Our peace
plan is for Kosovo on its traditional and well defined boundaries, not for
that part of it that President Milosevic has failed yet to cleanse."
The Times (London) reported Tuesday 3/30 that "the Serbs [are] now
totaling 27,000 troops, 16,500 police and 300 tanks in Kosovo."
II. DIPLOMATIC DEVELOPMENTS: RUSSIA'S PRIME MINISTER PRIMAKOV'S BELGRADE
MISSION; CLINTON SAYS SUPPORT FOR SERBIA'S CLAIM TO KOSOVO "JEOPARDIZED"
US President Bill Clinton Tuesday 3/30 said that "[Milosevic] faces the
mounting cost of his continued aggression. For a sustained period, he will
see that his military will be seriously diminished, key military
infrastructure destroyed, the prospect of international support for
Serbia's claim to Kosovo increasingly jeopardized." US State Department
spokesman James Rubin said today that "we have very clear indicators that
genocide is unfolding in Kosovo. We are looking at a mixture of confirmed
and unconfirmed reports at this time. But we don't see any need to await
confirmation of genocide. Clearly there are crimes against humanity
occurring in Kosovo, and our response to this criminal activity by
Milosevic's forces is taking place right now."
The New York Times reported today that "NATO officials have already
started [saying]... that Kosovo could wind up as a separate entity under
international protection - if the allies actually succeed in subduing the
Serbian military. Sketching the outlines of a protectorate, a NATO planner
said that NATO troops would oversee the return of ethnic Albanian refugees
to Kosovo and guarantee their safety under an arrangement in which the
Serbs would have virtually no power." The International Herald Tribune
reported today that "a group of French defense specialists outside the
government said that Mr. Milosevic might seek peace in Kosovo if Western
governments threatened that they would recognize Kosovo's independence."
The New York Times reported today that Russia's Prime Minister Yvgeny
Primakov following a meeting yesterday with Yugoslavia's President Slobodan
Milosevic, "said in Bonn that Mr. Milosevic wanted to have direct talks
with the Kosovo Albanians and was ready 'to create the conditions for the
return of all peaceful refugees. But it was unclear exactly whom Mr.
Milosevic wished to talk to among the Albanians he appears to have
terrorized, what he meant by 'peaceful refugees,' and how these ethnic
Albanians might return to towns and villages that several reports suggest
have been torched." [As reported in Kosovo Briefing #5, Primakov last
summer negotiated a joint Russia-Yugoslavia statement on Kosovo formally
announced June 16, 1998. Under the agreement, Yugoslavia agreed in part
that "no repressive measures will be undertaken affecting the civilian
population... full freedom of movement on the whole territory of Kosovo and
Metohija is ensured... [and] depending on the degree of cessation of
terrorist activities, the security forces will reduce their presence
outside locations of their permanent bases."]
Agence France Presse quoted a statement Tuesday 3/30 by US President Bill
Clinton, following a phone conversation with Germany's Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder: "President Milosevic's proposal is unacceptable," following a
conversation with Germany's Prime Minister Gerhard Schroeder. Reuters
quoted Schroeder saying Tuesday 3/30 that "the proposals brought by Prime
Minister Primakov are no basis for a political settlement." Reuters Tuesday
3/30 quoted that a spokesman for Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair: "We
have said that what [Milosevic] needs to do is withdraw his troops. It's
important that happens. It's not a question of talking." The New York Times
reported Tuesday 3/30 that "some officials voiced concerns that Primakov
might push the Serbs into a deal short of what NATO is demanding - autonomy
for Kosovo under the protection of NATO troops." Reuters Tuesday 3/30
reported that "a correspondent for Russia's ORT public television in
Belgrade... said Russia and Yugoslavia might formulate a joint proposal for
an international military force that would not be under NATO command."
The New York Times today reported that "it seemed clear that both the
United States and its European allies were eager to find some sort of
political solution that would head off calls for a possible deployment of
ground troops to stop the fighting. Both [France's President] Jacques
Chirac and [Germany's Chancellor] Schroeder have recently avoided any
specific reference to the negotiations at Rambouillet... This avoidance of
referennces to the political process that the NATO bombing is nominally
supposed to back suggested that major European powers might be satisfied,
at least initially, with a commitment from Mr. Milosevic topstop his
military activity in Kosovo and withdraw his forces." When he was asked
about the Primakov trip Monday 3/29, US State Department spokesman James
Rubin did not mention troop withdrawals, saying only that "we welcome any
diplomatic efforts that lead to a halt to Belgrade's offensive against the
Kosovar Albanian population and to convince President Milosevic to comply
with his international commitments. But let me be clear - NATO will
continue air operations until such time as President Milosevic halts his
offensive and commits to a settlement based on the Rambouillet accords."
White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said Monday 3/29 that for NATO to halt
air strikes, Milosevic "needs to cease his offensive, embrace a peaceful
solution that accepts real autonomy and selfgovernment for the Kosovar
people, and allows them to live free of repression." The New York Times
today reported that one idea for a new agreement "is that the proposed NATO
force in Kosovo could be supplemented or even replaced by a force drawn
from all the Eastern European countries that aspire to NATO membership, as
well as from Russia. But it appears unlikely the ethnic Albanians would
ever agree to this."
NATO spokesman Jamie Shea had said Monday 3/29 of Primakov's trip: "If
Prime Minister Primakov and the Russians can go to Belgrade and convince
President Milosevic to see reason and to stop the killing in Kosovo, to
take his forces back to where they should be inside their barracks, to
agree to a ceasefire and then to agree to start political negotiations on
the basis of the Rambouillet peace plan, we would welcome that, but those
are the objectives of the international community and I don't think it
makes any sense for a Russian mission to go to Belgrade if it is not fully
intending to tell Milosevic that those are the things that he has to do.
But if they can do that, if they can be successful, we would welcome that."
Associated Press Tuesday 3/30 reported that Italy's Prime Minister
Massimo D'Alema "urged politicians as well as the public to stand behind
him in backing the military operation against Yugoslavia. D'Alema delivered
his appeal for solidarity for the NATO mission in a five-minute address to
the nation live on all three state-TV networks.... 'Italy had to and must
do its part to stop the genocide going on,' D'Alema said." Associated Press
also noted that "it is extremely rare for Italian heads of government to
use the networks to deliver a live address." Reuters Monday 3/29 reported
Greece's Foreign Minister Costas Simitis "called on Monday on... Belgrade
to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. 'These actions must stop immediately,'
he said in a televised speech to party officials."
