Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said during his appearance on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer that a separate status for Kosova is the only possible outcome now.

Brzezinski: Kosova Cannot be in Serbian Jurisdiction

Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski said during an appearance on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer that Kosova cannot be in Serbian jurisdiction anymore.  He said that since the Serbian army is attacking civilians, Milosevic has forfeited the right to rule over Kosova by the genocide that he has pursued.

Scowcroft: Prepare Ground Troops Now

Former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft said during anappearance on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer that the United States Administration should start preparing for ground troops now.

Prime minister of Kosova had phone calls today with western diplomats

Drenica, April 6th (Kosovapress) For grave conditions in Kosova and for the whole situation in the region, today Prime minister of Kosova mr. Hashim Thaēi had phone calls with the American State Departments Spokesman, mr.James Rubin, with the German Foreign Minister, mr.Joshka Fisher and with the European Community emissary for Kosovo, mr. Volfgang Petriq. Mr. Thaēi informed them about grave conditions prevailing in Kosovo, about the latest developments, continuous serbian attacks over the albanian civil population of Kosova and he informed them about the resistance of Kosovo Liberation Army. Mr. Thaēi, reiterated to his interlocutors that NATO air strikes are greeted by the Government of Kosova and from the people of Kosova, but in the same time, the dislocations of the NATO ground troops in Kosova is an immediate request. Mr. Thaqi was assured that people of Kosova is not alone.People of Kosova in his struggles for freedom has the full support of dominant western democracies of U.S.A. and European Community.

Macedonia Said Forcing Refugees To Albania

TIRANA (Reuters) - The Kosovo refugee crisis deepened Wednesday, with Macedonia bussing thousands of people across its territory to Albania, Yugoslavia preventing others from reaching either country and growing unease in the West over how to deal with the human tide.

At least 14,000 Kosovo Albanians arrived in southeastern Albania Wednesday, saying they had been brought there against their will by Macedonian police after fleeing from Kosovo to Blace at the other end of Macedonia.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said some 10,000 people were in a sports stadium in the town of Korce and there were 4,000 more in the area.

``They are all from Blace and more are coming,'' OSCE spokesman Andrea Angeli told Reuters in Tirana.

The Albanian news agency ATA added that not a single international relief agency was present in Korce.

At Stenkovec airfield, between the Macedonian capital Skopje and the border with Kosovo, refugee numbers swelled to about 25,000.

Late Wednesday the first 600 refugees out of 10,000 Germany has agreed to take left by air, but many others said they would leave Stenkovec only to return to Kosovo.

Paula Ghebini, spokesman for the UNHCR refugee agency, said some 10,000 other refugees had been brought to the center, set up by NATO as a transit point from which the refugees are sent either to permanent camps or abroad.

Sources in the international aid agencies said many people had been bussed out to Greece and Turkey in line with Macedonia's government policy.

But with a dearth of reliable information on how many refugees had been taken to different destinations, or even how many there had been to start with, Ghebini admitted earlier Wednesday: ``We cannot account for about 30,000 people.''

Yugoslavia closed the main border crossings from Kosovo into Albania and Macedonia Wednesday, abruptly halting the flow of refugees.

Albania's Morina border post, through which most of Albania's estimated 280,000 Kosovo refugees have poured since NATO began air strikes on Yugoslavia two weeks ago, was deserted.

At Jazince on the Macedonian border, Reuters reporters saw Yugoslav police turning cars full of refugees around and sending them back into Kosovo.

Even before they began to do so, Macedonia had severely restricted the entry of refugees into its territory, saying their numbers exceeded its capacity to care for them.

In Brussels, NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said that Tuesday, before the closures, 42,000 ethnic Albanians had been expelled from Kosovo, bringing the number forced to flee their homes over the past year of conflict to about 912,000.

UNHCR chief Sadako Ogata told a news conference in Rome the agency had been caught off guard by the number of ethnic Albanians displaced since the NATO air strikes began.

``I personally did not foresee expulsions in a way that was organized and forced and that have brought the number of people much, much higher than we had expected.''

European Union aid Commissioner Emma Bonino criticized the world community for sending the refugees abroad against their will, saying it amounted to ``deportation'' and was helping Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

Bonino, speaking ahead of a meeting of EU interior ministers in Luxembourg, said the EU should concentrate its efforts on keeping them nearer home.

``I think that the policy remains that the first priority is to keep these people as much as possible in their region. I strongly believe that, because the situation is so volatile even if you lift 50,000 ... Milosevic can push (out) another 100,000 tomorrow morning,'' she said.

In Macedonia Wednesday a NATO official said displaced ethnic Albanians would no longer be separated from their families or sent to foreign countries against their will.

Grave situation of the civil population

Komoran, April 6th (Kosovapress) The consequences of the offensive of the serbian paramilitary and police forces against the villages Komoran, Fushticė e Epėrme, Fushticė e Poshtme, Stankoc, Kishnarekė, Mekoc, Baincė, Shalė, Krojmir and Pjetershticė are still unknown, because of the continuation even today of bombardments, looting, killings of people and burning of houses. According to the information we have managed to accumulate, it is known that these persons have been killed: Kajtaz Ahmet Bytyqi (63), from Arllati, executed; Muhamet Hasan Rexhepi (50), from Zabeli i Epėrm; Islam Ramadan Kastrati (13), from Nekovci; Sadri Osman Thaqi (60), from Llapushniku and Muharrem Hajrizi (62), from Korrotica e Poshtme, while these persons have been wounded: Tahir Avdullahu (50) from Zabeli i Epėrm, Haniki Hajdini (35), from Zabeli i Epėrm, Islam Rexhepi (55), from Zabeli i Epėrm, Behar Shaban Bajraktari (16), from Kishnareka and Vehbi Adem Cakiqi from Komorani. However, this number is not supposed to be definitive, because there are no information about the fate of hundreds of other inhabitants of these villages, which have run away in various directions before the bombardments with heavy artillery from the serbian forces. Yesterday and today, the serbian gangs have moved toward Prishtina in columns of trucks filled with looted clothes from the houses of the albanians of these villages. Actually, tens of hundreds of citizens expelled from their houses are being found in the mountains, under the risk of hunger, diseases and epidemics. They are sieged from the serbian forces in a small area.

Hundreds of thousand people displaced, sheltered in highland of Gallapi

Prishtinė, April 6th (Kosovapress) In Prishtina and its environs the situation seems to be a little more quiet and untense. The population has begun to move accross the city and is providing itself with food items, although the main part of the capital is displaced. A part has moved toward the Highland of Gallapi (about 100 000), while another part has gone to Macedonia and elsewhere. The situation of the population displaced in the Highland of Gallapi, is very grave. Actually, the last reserves of food are being spent, while there is the risk of hunger. The efforts to be furnished by the city, are extremely difficult. KLA, operating in this zone, is helping the displaced population with food and medical care, while the families of this zone have sheltered all the displaced population, so that nobody here seems to be without shelter.

University of New Brunswick students mobilize to help end genocide in Kosova

Thousands to be raised for refugee relief, hiring of Kosovar professor

 5 April, 1999

(Fredericton, NB) Students at the University of New Brunswick have mobilized to do their part to help end genocide in Kosova.

Following the publication of a special 5 page report on the humanitarian crisis in Kosova in the Brunswickan, UNB's student newspaper, student leaders have taken the initiative.

The Brunswickan will donate the cost of printing one week's issue, approximately $3,000, to humanitarian relief efforts in Kosova, Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro.

At a meeting of its Council next week, UNB Student Union President Kate Rogers and Vice-President (External) Andrea Wenham will introduce a motion to disburse the surplus in the SU Grants Fund, approximately $3,000, to the same cause.

Next week, CHSR-FM, Fredericton's Campus / Community radio station, will hold a day-long awareness and fundraising campaign.

Meanwhile, all three organizations are cooperating in the circulation of a petition asking that the UNB President Elizabeth Parr-Johnston and the UNB Board of Governors authorize the hiring of a Kosovar professor on a special one-year contract, to teach and do research about Balkan history and politics at UNB.

In response to the students' petition, Student Union President Rogers, who is a member of the University's Board of Governors, will introduce the motion at the Board during its next regular meeting in May.

In the first three hours of the petition campaign, nearly 200 signatures were collected, and the campaign will resume this coming Tuesday when students return to campus following the Easter break.

Early signatories of the petition include Wenham, Rogers, the Editorial Board of the Brunswickan, one current member and two members-elect of UNB's Board of Governors, the President and Vice-President (Finance) of the SU council for 1999-2000, members of UNB's Academic Senate and a number of UNB professors and staff members.

According to Student Union President Rogers, the ongoing campaign of genocide in Kosova is a defining issue for today's students.

"Students are not out of touch with reality," said Rogers, "they follow the news, they study the region on their own, and are by and large appalled by what is going on in Kosova. I've been amazed at how many students have gotten wind of the petition and have come by to ask to sign it, or to ask how to help."

"More than one student has commented that this is our generation's version of the Vietnam war. They're standing up and calling on the nations of Europe and North America to do what is necessary to end genocide," Rogers continued.

It is so defining an issue, in fact, that students are demanding that their university stand-up and be counted by offering support to a Kosovar academic.

"Intellectuals -be they students or teachers- and professionals -doctors, lawyers, and human rights activists- are particularly targeted by the Serb 'security forces' in Kosova," explained Pat FitzPatrick, the Brunswickan's News Editor and an MA student in conflict studies.

"In preparing last week's special feature on Kosova, we counted reports of as many as fifty teachers who were summarily executed by Milosevic's troops - including twenty who were hung in front of their students."

"This is nothing less than an attempt to erase the Kosovar Albanian's cultural and intellectual heritage," he continued.

While recognizing that the hiring of a Kosovar PhD is a "drop in the bucket," FitzPatrick claims that the University has a moral responsibility to act that transcends UNB's ongoing campaign of budget-cuts.

"While we as students and professors bemoan our daily problems, while our University worries about a new marketing campaign to attract new students, the people of Kosova face a completely different set of problems: how to survive each day without starving, without being executed."

"Students making a donation to refugee relief and the University hiring a Kosovar professor for a year - those are absolute moral goods," he said.

The UNB campaign's organizers have identified the recent 2.4% increase in the province's annual operating grant to UNB as a prime source of the funds which will be required to bring a qualified candidate to the University.

"We accept that the 2.4% increase does not represent much of an actual increase to the University's operating budget, considering inflation," said Brunswickan Editor-in-Chief Joseph W.J. FitzPatrick III, "but it is nevertheless on the order of $2.4 million that the University did not have last year."

"We are asking only that about two and a half percent of that 2.4 million be allocated hiring a Kosovar professor," FitzPatrick said.

According to Wenham, "It is the goal and responsibility of Universities to educate people about what is going on in the world around us, and this falls into that mandate."

"Although it might feel like we live in a vaccuume here in Fredericton and at UNB, it's important to remember that issues going on around us can affect our daily lives," said Wenham.

"We're not only talking about a hiring to further the education of UNB students," said Rogers, "but a hiring which could, potentially, help preseve the cultural memory of Kosovar Albanians."

The motion to allocate $3,000 from the UNB Student Union to refugee relief will be debated at this week's SU Council Meeting on Thursday. Campaign organizers hope to deliver the Brunswickan and Student Union donations -as well as funds raised through the CHSR-FM awareness day- by Friday, April 16.

The campaign will continue this week with the publication of an additional feature on Kosova in the Brunswickan focusing on the human toll in Kosova, Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania, as well as with the continued signing of petitions.

Next week's activities include a day-long signature blitz during the traditional "last-class bash" at UNB and STU.

Rogers, who is also a member of the Board of Governors, will introduce the motion to hire a Kosovar professor at the Board's next meeting in May.

Campaign organizers are currently contacting student associations and student newspapers across North America urging them to take similar action to help deliver assistance to refugees in Kosova.

For additional information or to arrange an interview with a campaign member, please call: Pat FitzPatrick (News Editor, The Brunswickan) and Campaign organizer - (506) 453-4983.

The electronic version of the Brunswickan report on Kosova may be viewed at <http://www.unb.ca/bruns/kosova>

Appeal by Albanians of Gjilan (South Eastern Kosova)

The number of victims in Kosova is growing rapidly. In Gjilan only, 30 people were killed by Serbian military forces, among them some children. The number of injured is over 20. Nobody counts anymore looted shops and burned houses. Last night, a car bomb exploded in Gavran quarter; the material damage was huge, but there were no fatalities. Inhabitants of many villages of the community of Gjilan are forced to leave their houses.

In recent days, NATO and the international community is concentrated to help the refugees that have already left Kosova, but Albanians in Kosova are not getting any direct help or protection.

You have to know that this is the last moment to help inside Kosova. Drenica, Llap, Dukagjin, Karadak, practically the whole Kosova need food, medicines, tents and direct protection or arms. Everyday, Serbs are killing hundreds of Albanians in their homes, including children and women.

While NATO is targeting buildings and Serbian infrastructure, the Serbs target everything that is Albanian, including their lives.