> 1) Almost 4,000 Purged Kosovo Serbs Homeless
> 2) Ethnic Albanians Expel 3,700 Serbs, Torch 420
> Houses, 25 Churches
> 3) NATO 'Peacekeepers' Take Expelled Serbs On Tour Of
> Their Burnt Houses In Kosovo Polje
> 4) Kosovo Polje: Kosovo Policemen Participated In
> Pogrom, Torchings
> 5) Ethnic Albanians Set Fire To Another Serb House In
> Lipljan
> 6) Serbia Mourns Kosovo Victims
> 7) Serbia Calls For Aid In Providing Emergency Shelter
> For Purged Kosovo Serbs
> 8) Serbian Humanitarian Aid Arrives In Kosovo
> 9) Russian Emergency Minister Heads To Serbia To
> Assist Kosovo Serbs Refugees
> 10) Russia To Provide Life Support Aid To Ethnically
> Cleansed Serbs
>
>
>
>
>
> 1)
> http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=27642&style=headlines
>
> B92
> March 21, 2004
>
> Almost four thousand Serbs homeless
>
>
>
> BELGRADE -- Sunday  During this weeks violence in
> Kosovo, more than 3,600 Serbs and other non-Albanians
> have been forced to leave their homes, UNMIK has
> announced.
>
> UNMIK representative Peggy Hicks said earlier today
> that about 1,100 people were being accommodated in
> KFOR bases while others had escaped into Serb areas
> where there is less violence.
>
> Governor Harri Holkeri described the situation today
> as gradually calming down, but warned that it was
> still unstable.
>
> There is some progress, but it is not yet over, said
> Holkeri, adding that Albanians and Serbs were still
> working together in local UN offices, which he
> described as a good sign.
>
> I have received information that there are a lot of
> Kosovo Serbs who want to stay here despite having many
> problems in the enclaves in which they live.
>
> That means that we can continue to live and work
> together. These events are extremely regrettable but
> we will move on. Some extremists still have support
> to continue the violence and because of that it is
> urgent that those who want to do that are brought to
> justice, said Holkeri.
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> 2)
>
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/Elect.htm#Ethnic%20Albanians%
20expell%203,700%20Serbs,%20torch%20420%20houses,%2025%20churches
>
> Tanjug
> March 21, 2004
>
> Ethnic Albanians expel 3,700 Serbs, torch 420 houses,
> 25 churches
>
>
> 18:36 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , March 21 (Tanjug) - More
> than 3,700 Serbs from seven villages, towns of
> Pristina, Obilic, Prizren and Lipljan and other
> settlements were expelled during a three-day ethnic
> Albanian persecution campaign against Serbs in
> Kosovo-Metohija last week.
> During the violence, more than 420 Serb houses, flats
> and other facilities were destroyed and torched, but
> these are not final figures.
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 3)
>
http://www.tanjug.co.yu/Elect.htm#Serbs%20visit%20sites
%20of%20burnt%20houses%20in%20Kosovo%20Polje
>
> Tanjug
> March 21, 2004
>
> Serbs visit sites of burnt houses in Kosovo Polje
>
>
> 19:12 BELGRADE , March 21 (Tanjug) - In Kosovo Polje,
> where a large number of houses were torched during the
> ethnic Albanian pogrom against Serbs on March 17, KFOR
> and UNMIK stepped up their patrols on Saturday, which
> on Sunday encouraged members of several Serb families
> to come and visit the sites of their burnt houses.
> Coordination centre for Kosovo-Metohija coordinator
> for Kosovo Polje Sladjana Denic told Tanjug that
> members of KFOR's British congingent had on Saturday
> searched the ground and added that she expected that
> an official investigation into the crimes and pogrom
> against Serbs in Kosovo Polje would start on Monday.
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 4)
> http://www.tanjug.co.yu
>
> Tanjug
> March 21, 2004
>
> Kosovo police members take part in torching of houses
> in Kosovo Polje
>
>
> 16:37 KOSOVO POLJE , March 21 (Tanjug) - Kosovo police
> members took part in the pogrom of Serbs and torching
> of Serb houses in Kosovo Polje, Serb sources told
> Tanjug and added that several surviving witnesses
> could confirm this.
> According to the sources, those who torched houses on
> March 17 were accompanied by a tank car from which
> they took fuel, while firefighters reacted only if
> there was any danger that wind might spread fire to
> ethnic Albanian houses.
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 5)
> http://www.tanjug.co.yu
>
> Tanjug
> March 21, 2004
>
>
> Ethnic Albanians set fire to another Serb house in
> Lipljan
>
>
> 17:16 LIPLJAN , March 21 (Tanjug) - Kosovo Albanians
> on Saturday evening torched another house in Lipljan,
> Lipljan municipal council vice president Borivoje
> Vignjevic told Tanjug.
> This was the house of Vanco Milosavljevic, situated on
> the edge of Lipljan towards the village of Dobrotinje,
> he said.
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 6)
> http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=32464
>
> Novinite (Bulgaria)
> March 21, 2004
>
> Serbia Mourns Kosovo Victims
>
>
> Serbia observed on Sunday a day of mourning for the 28
> victims of the violence in the ethnically divided town
> of Kosovska Mitrovica.
>
> The flags at all national institutions were flown at
> half-mast.
>
> More than 25 Serbian Orthodox churches and seven
> villages were torched and more than one-hundred homes
> destroyed in the violence, which NATO and foreign
> leaders described as ethnic cleansing. Thousands of
> Serbs were driven from their homes in clashes between
> the Albanian population and Serb minority.
>
> In Kosovo, thousands of people attended the burial of
> two ethnic Albanian boys who were killed before last
> week's deadly riots broke out. Despite earlier fears
> that violence might erupt, the burial was quiet and
> without incident.
>
> Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian President Ibrahim Rugova
> declared Monday as a day of mourning for the
> majority-Albanian province.
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 7)
> http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2004-03/21/333623.html
>
> Serbia Info
> March 21, 2004
>
>
> Government calls for assistance in organising
> provisional accommodation for Serbs
>
> [For photograph click on URL above]
>
>
>
> Belgrade, March 21, 2004 - The Serbian government has
> appealed to organisations and citizens who have
> camp-trailers and makeshift houses to help Serbs in
> Kosovo-Metohija organise provisional accommodation.
>
> As agreed with the Army of Serbia-Montenegro,
> camp-trailers and makeshift houses can be delivered to
> the barracks Stepa Stepanovic in Belgrade, Janko
> Cmelik in Novi Sad, Stevan Sindjelic in Nis and
> Tanasko Rajic in Cacak, read a statement by the
> Serbian government.
>
> The Serbian government is ready to help with the
> transport of assistance to the barracks.
>
> Since hundreds of Serb houses have been burned down in
> the organised armed terror by ethnic Albanian
> extremists in Kosovo-Metohija, Serbia's primary task
> is to provide basic assistance in the form of
> accommodation and food to Serbs who are on the ashes
> of their homes, and the final goal is to rebuild all
> burnt houses in the shortest time possible, read the
> statement.
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 8)
> http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2004-03/21/333631.html
>
> Serbia Info
> March 21, 2004
>
>
> Humanitarian aid arrives to Zvecan
>
>
>
> Belgrade, March 21, 2004 - A convoy of eight trucks of
> humanitarian aid dispatched by the Serbian government
> reached Zvecan yesterday, from where it was
> distributed to Serbs in Priluzje, Plemetina and
> Gracanica, the Coordinating Centre for Kosovo-Metohija
> confirmed and the Tanjug news agency reported.
>
> Chief of the Coordinating Centre's Humanitarian Aid
> Office Zlatan Ribac said that the convoy passed the
> border crossing at Rudnica without problems, from
> where it was followed by British KFOR soldiers to its
> destination in Zvecane.
>
> More than 104 tonnes of aid supplies for Serbs in
> Kosovo-Metohija, including food and toiletries, are
> being loaded today and will be sent by trucks of the
> Red Cross of Serbia and the Red Cross Association of
> Serbia-Montenegro.
>
> According to the Red Cross of Serbia, the Serbian
> government's aid supply of 25 tonnes of flour and 25
> tonnes of food will be sent to Serbs in the Kosovsko
> Pomoravlje district. The remaining assistance of 5.5
> tonnes of water and juices, collected during
> yesterday's campaign "Serbia, Help!" will be delivered
> to the Red Cross of Kosovo-Metohija on Monday, from
> where it will be distributed to people hit by Kosovo
> clashes.
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 9)
>
http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=4082521
&startrow=1&date=2004-03-21&do_alert=0
>
>
> Russian Information Agency (Novosti)
> March 21, 2004
>
>
>
> RUSSIA: EMERGENCY MINISTER GOES TO SERBIA,
> MONTENEGRO-RUSSIA TO HELP SERB REFUGEES
>
>
> MOSCOW, March 21 - RIA Novosti. Sergei Shoigu,
> Russia's Minister for Emergency and Calamity Relief,
> is leading a delegation to depart on Monday, March 22,
> for Serbia and Montenegro. The delegates will study
> opportunities and necessity for Russian assistance to
> Serb refugees, reports the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
> press and information department.
>
> Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, had
> telephone conferences within preceding days to inform
> about the upcoming visit President Svjetozar Marovic
> of Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia's Prime Minister
> Vojislav Kostunica.
>
> Mr. Lavrov expressed Russian alarm with current
> outbreaks of interethnic violence in Kosovo, which
> took a heavy toll of lives and injured many.
>
> Sergei Shoigu will visit Serbia and Montenegro on
> President Vladimir Putin's order. The Kosovo crisis
> dominated the agenda at a conference the federal
> President convened on Saturday to describe current
> violence as an anti-Serb ethnic purge.
>
> Russian delegates are expected in Belgrade on Monday
> afternoon, as far as RIA Novosti knows. Vojislav
> Kostunica and the host country's other leaders will
> receive Mr. Shoigu, Tuesday morning. The delegation
> will go on to Podgorica, Montenegrin capital, Tuesday
> afternoon, to meet Montenegro's leaders at the
> negotiation table.
>
> The delegation is scheduled to come back to Moscow,
> Wednesday night.
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> http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=574530&PageNum=0
>
> Itar-Tass (Russia)
> March 20, 2004
>
>
> Russia to provide aid for Serbs to ensure life support
> for the refugees
>
>
>
> -The situation is seriously complicated at present.
> Refugees already leave 20 settlements in Serbia.
> Prompt measures are needed to ensure life support for
> the people, Shoigu said.
> Tent camps must be set up and medicines and food must
> be provided, and most probably there is a need to set
> up a hospital.
> The situation is still more complicated since the
> refugee flow is added to the previous one, but
> residents of the existing camps are not settled in
> other places yet, Shoigu noted.
>
>
>
>
> MOSCOW, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President
> Vladimir Putin has described the Kosovo developments
> as ethnic purges.
>
> The Russian Security Council and the Foreign Ministry
> must clearly formulate Russia's position on the
> situation, he said during the meeting with key
> ministers regularly held on Saturdays.
>
> "I ask Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov and
> Foreign Ministry head Sergei Lavrov to clearly
> formulate Russia's position on the problem," Putin
> said.
>
> Russia cannot indifferently watch what is happening
> there, the president stressed.
>
> As Western colleagues admit, it is nothing else, but
> an ethnic purge, and there must be an appropriate
> tough reaction in defence of Serbs in this case, the
> Russian president said.
>
> This Saturday's meeting was held in a broader format
> with the participation of Emergencies Minister Sergei
> Shoigu and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
>
> Putin noted that Shoigu would go to Serbia and
> Montenegro on a trip that was earlier planned. At
> present, there are severe developments and many people
> are suffering.
>
> In this connection, the president asked the
> emergencies minister to inform on measures to be taken
> to provide aid for the refugees.
>
> Shoigu said his earlier planned trip to Serbia and
> Montenegro was connected with economic cooperation
> between Russia and the country. The situation is
> seriously complicated at present. Refugees already
> leave 20 settlements in Serbia.
>
> Prompt measures are needed to ensure life support for
> the people, Shoigu said.
>
> Tent camps must be set up and medicines and food must
> be provided, and most probably there is a need to set
> up a hospital.
>
> The situation is still more complicated since the
> refugee flow is added to the previous one, but
> residents of the existing camps are not settled in
> other places yet, Shoigu noted.
>
> The minister said he would study the situation for two
> days and take appropriate measures that would be
> discussed with Serbia-Montenegro authorities.