At 12:24 05/05/99 -0400, you wrote:
>http://www.independent.co.uk/stories/B0405918.html
>
>The Independent Online
>
>May 4, 1999
>
>US admits Sudan bombing mistake
A valuable report and I rejoice at it. It is one of the issues that
constrains the would be hegemons of the new global government.
But since you have found the Independent site and therefore pointed it out
to me, and since the Independent is an anti-war paper, can I ask you, or
us, not just to amplify the news that for whatever good motives, and I see
them in many subscribers, objectively argues for appeasement of the crimes
against humanity of the Serbian fascist regime.
This was also on the Independent site.
Chris Burford
London
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War in The Balkans -
Villagers saw more than 100
men shot
By Emma Daley in Kukes
Grief marked the faces of dozens of women and
girls crossing to safety in Albania from the killing
grounds of Kosovo yesterday.
Tears flowed freely as children, wives and sisters
described the murders of their menfolk by
Serbian soldiers. "They wore masks and they
killed my brother right in front of me," said
22-year-old Nerxhivana Gerxhaliu. "It is not a
long story. They began beating men and shooting
others. They formed no lines, they just pulled
them out of the tractors and killed them."
A wounded Kosovar refugee is unloaded
from his tractor trailer at Morini in Albania
yesterday - AP
More than 100 men are reported to have been
dragged from the refugee convoy and shot dead
by the roadside between the villages of Upper
and Lower Studime, close to the town of Vucitrn
in Kosovo. The survivors say the convoy, a
couple of thousand people forced from their
homes in the villages, was surrounded on Sunday
night.
"They killed my husband before my eyes,"
Sebaate Gerxhaliu said, blank with grief as she sat
in a tractor trailer clutching her youngest son. "At
first they beat the men with rifle butts, then they
killed them. All through the journey I closed my
eyes because I did not want to remember the
scene." Ten men were taken from Mrs
Gerxhaliu's tractor alone, eight of them relatives.
"I managed to touch my son once, to lay my hand
on his wound, and my hand came up covered
with blood," said another women, Merita, who
did not want to be identified further because she
must break the news to other children living
abroad. "They would not even let us take the
bodies. We don't know if anyone bothered to
make a grave for them."
Another woman, Lulietta Gerxhaliu, also
witnessed the horrific scenes. "We saw many
people being killed in front of us - 20 to 30 - and
we saw more than 100 bodies," she said.
"They pulled the men from the tractors, asked for
DM2,000 [£700] and said that anyone who
could not pay would be killed." But even that was
not to save Merita's son, as she testified in an
entirely separate interview. "I gave them
DM2,000 but they still killed him."
Once the killing was done, the troops ordered the
villagers to drive to Vucitrn and even then they
were screaming and shooting in the air to terrify
the survivors, who spent the night corralled at a
farm, guarded by armed men and denied food
and water. The next morning the Serbs came for
the surviving men, removing dozens, perhaps
hundreds of men aged 22 to 55 in trucks and then
returning, trucks empty, for more. Eventually they
ordered the convoy to leave at once for Albania.
"We know at least 200 are gone - we are certain
of this because we know them all," said
Nerxhivana Gerxhaliu, who was riding in a
different tractor. It was not a long story - but it
was typical of President Slobodan Milosevic's
blood feud against Kosovo.
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