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>From TheIndependent (UK)
> War in The Balkans - Refugees shun Nato's new camps
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> By Kim Sengupta in Korca
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> THE camps built for Albanian refugees at Korca are the best seen so
> far. Four thousand Kosovars were expected to arrive within 10 days of
> opening.
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> But fewer than 500 have taken up the offer. Nearly all the refugees
> prefer to stay in squalid and unsanitary tents, bursting at the seams
> and with outbreaks of diseases - because the new camps are in Albania
> and the Kosovars do not want to leave Macedonia.
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> This has become one of the most pressing problems of the Kosovo crisis
> for the UN, Nato and international agencies. With a population of 2.2
> million, a stagnant economy and 270,000 refugees, Macedonia has
> repeatedly protested that it cannot keep on taking in more Albanians.
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> One reason the refugees prefer Macedonia is because the Albanian
> government has refused to allow them to go on to the West. This policy
> is about to change. Those who can prove members of their families have
> been sent abroad in the diaspora will have the opportunity to be
> reunited.
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> Whether this limited offer will have any significant effect on the
> logjam remains to be seen. Ellie Wiesel, President Bill Clinton's
> special envoy to the Balkans, visited Macedonia yesterday, and this
> was going to be one of his main topics of discussion with the
> government, aid agencies and community leaders among the refugees.
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> The new camps being built around Korca, in southern Albania, are far
> from the Kosovo border and many refugees feel this will hinder their
> quick return home if and when the country is liberated from Serbian
> rule. Gerard Fayoux, head of the UN High Commission for Refugees in
> the area, said: "We have to accept the reluctance of the refugees to
> leave Macedonia to come to Albania. But we cannot force them to come
> here. We had to build these camps to offer an alternative because the
> camps in Macedonia are now full and the situation is very serious."
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> If the Kosovars in Macedonia continue to refuse to cross the borders,
> the new camps may re-house refugees in Kukes, in northern Albania.
> Nato wants camps there closed because they are overcrowded and within
> range of Serbian artillery.
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> The camps around Korca are being built by British Army engineers and
> pioneers headed by Brigadier Tim Cross, commander of the new 101
> Logistic Brigade. They will withstand the winter, an admission that a
> long military and diplomatic campaign lies ahead.
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> Humanitarian experts have praised the vision and care shown in their
> construction. The British soldiers and aid agencies have had more time
> to work than the agencies that dealt with the initial exodus from
> Kosovo. These camps are intended to bring a little dignity and privacy
> to the lives of the dispossessed.
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> At Erseke, fresh water comes down the mountains and the sheltered
> accommodation is divided into family units. Tents are not in
> regimented rows, but in clusters around squares to give more of a feel
> of village life. There is no central kitchen to cause the long, grim
> queues waiting to be fed. Families will prepare their own food.
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> Ian Loring, a church aid worker, helped to design the project.
> "Hopefully, the family units will give them privacy," he said.
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