Date: 03 Apr 1999 08:36:00 +0200
From: I-AFD_2-AT-anarch.free.de (Nico MYOWNA)
Subject: Kosovo Briefing


## News 02.04.99
## by lee-AT-tmg.co.uk

C R I S I S W E B   N E W S
Friday  April 2,  1999

ICG SOUTH BALKANS
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ICG's latest Kosovo Briefing (April 2) looks at the refugee crisis in
Albania, where over 120,000 Kosovars have fled since the start of the NATO
airstrikes, out of a total of 550,000 people (roughly one quarter of
Kosovo's pre-conflict population) who have been forced to abandon their
homes. The report offers some initial recommendations aimed at assisting
these refugees, and suggests that a primary objective of the current
offensive in Kosovo is to remove ethnic Albanians from the whole of
northern and western Kosovo to allow Milosevic to present the world with a
fait accompli regarding the partition of the province.
--> See http://www.crisisweb.org for the full report


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