Young Serbs are evading the army

Alarm: Milošević has nuclear weapons! The Serbian president receives Ibrahim Rugova P. 4-5

Bukoshi: We will save Rugova; I do not recognize Thaçi’s government.

Assassination: Kosovar killed in Durrës NATO leaflets fall in Has P. 7

The Russians reveal the secret. NATO in Kosovo in 7 days

The war in a “vicious circle”

The UN refugee agency says there is a possibility that the

“vicious”

The UN refugee agency says there is a possibility that all of Kosovo could be emptied of its inhabitants. all of Kosovo could be emptied of its inhabitants. The finding is quite shocking. According to the UN, if the expulsions continue at this pace, no Albanians will remain in Kosovo. The absence of any Albanians will create a geopolitical vacuum that Serbia will try to fill. The immediate intervention of NATO ground forces remains the only hope. Russian diplomats have said that NATO will launch a ground attack within 7–10 days, while official Western diplomacy has not yet confirmed such a scenario, citing the risks of deploying forces on the ground. The West’s delays are being exploited by the Serbs, who are preparing for a massive ground attack by mining fields and turning [them] into barracks Continued on page 3

Another 100,000 Kosovars head toward Kukës

Tanks head toward Tropojë

From the “Republika” correspondents in Kukës and Tropojë As a result of Serbian attacks on Albanian villages, more than four thousand children, women and elderly people have been displaced. Fierce fighting is taking place in Zherkë between the Albanian army and Serbian forces. Fierce fighting is under way along the Rek i Keq–Deçan line, where UÇK forces have made advances

50 Serbs cross the border and mine Albanian soil

Kukës looks like an enormous field, packed to overflowing beneath the open grating, from which strings of rain keep pouring down... The camp of those driven from their homelands here in Kukës can be compared to an army that has accepted defeat, but not given up hope of imminent victory. More than 130,000 people spend the evenings and greet the dawn beneath roofs amid stories, groans and cries from wounds oozing blood and poison—the poison of the enormous losses in this terrible war. Life here can barely drag itself along, disarmed, in the mountains. People speak of a humanitarian catastrophe which, at any moment, could claim more victims and sweep more lives away. Life is truly under threat from death. According to the prefecture’s statistics, more than 15 people have died in the hospital, and another 23 died without reaching its doors. But how many others may have fallen victim to death... Page 2

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• The Pentagon prepares for a massive war. 33,000 reservists and 6 billion dollars for the conflict Page 5 • Testimony about Milošević’s crimes: 10,000 people under bombs Page 8 • Kosovars search for one another Page 15