WAR REPORTS: THE LIES ARE UNRAVELING
The NATO bombing of Yugo slavia must stop, the moderate Kosovo Albanian political
leader Ibrahim Rugova told journalists in Pristina Wednesday_. Rugova was speaking at his
home in the Kosovo capital after reports that he was in hiding and his house had been
destroyed.
[Agence France-Presse, March 31]
U.S. diplomatic and Kosovo Alban ian sources on Wednesday contradicted an earlier claim
from NATO that two prominent Koso vo Albanian leaders were summarily executed by the
Serbs.
[MSNBC, March 31]
A football stadium in the Kosovo capital Pristina stood empty Wed nesday, one day after
reports that Serbian forces were herding ethnic Albanians there in an apparent prelude to
a massacre. An AFP report er who visited the site said the stadium, whose galleries can
host some 25,000 spectators, was completely empty and there were no signs of any mass
groupings.
[Agence France-Presse, March 31]
Mirvei, a tall Albanian woman clutch ing her four-month-old baby, looked bewildered
when asked if Serbian troops had driven her out. "There were no Serbs," she
said. "We were frightened of the bombs." _ Red Cross officials say many of the
most recent arrivals [in Macedonia] intend to return to Kosovo as soon as the NATO
bombardment stops.
[London Sunday Times, March 27]