Many of the 400 displaced people living there have lost belongings. |
Otherwise, the people will be living on top of each other, under extreme weather conditions, which will eventually lead to disease and other problems. |
So-called winter training exercises by security forces, held in the midst of an already very tense situation, intimidate the local population and drive civilians out of their homes. |
The Serbian border is, allegedly or reportedly, formally open but no one's crossing, which makes us believe that the Serbs are basically stopping people and preventing them from reaching the border. |
The Serbian border is, allegedly or reportedly, formally open but no one's crossing, which makes us believe that the Serbs are basically stopping people and preventing them from reaching the border. |
The stories ... seem to indicate that a lot more people have been killed over the past few days ... than in any other single case of attack before. |
The things which have been happening in the detention centre show you how desperate these people are. The trouble stems from the detention. |
They alleged 20 of them (the men) were executed and they actually saw the bodies. |
They say a humanitarian disaster is looming in the capital unless some kind of cease-fire is arranged and humanitarian supplies can be brought in. |
This has been a huge blow to the whole idea of multi-ethnicity, not only of Sarajevo but the entire country. |
This has been a huge blow to the whole idea of multi-ethnicity, not only of Sarajevo but the entire country. |
This is the first case in some time where people are staying in the open. And it has brought the refugee problem to the doorstep of Macedonia for the first time. |
Virtually all of the 28 have received verbal threats and begged to be evacuated. |
We are extremely concerned, since the people are terrified. We are absolutely sure that it's not that the people turned around themselves. They are being forcible prevented from leaving Kosovo. |
We are happy that the governments have offered us a total of 85,000 places for refugees from Macedonia. The bottleneck, however, is the number of people who are actually being flown out. More people need to be flown out of Macedonia. |