Where Next for the Displaced?
About 110,000 refugees remain in Macedonia, and the hard questions begin: what will they do, where will they go, will they ever return? And will last week's promises of help ever materialise?
About 110,000 refugees remain in Macedonia, and the hard questions begin: what will they do, where will they go, will they ever return? And will last week's promises of help ever materialise?
NATO bombing has failed to force Slobodan Milosevic to back down and Serbian forces in Kosovo have dug in. Any NATO ground invasion must expect heavy casualties.
An IWPR senior editor makes a personal connection amongst the tens of thousands of lost souls now being forced across the Kosovo-Albanian border.
Despite their poverty, ordinary Albanians have rushed to help their ethnic kin who have fled ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. The generosity of the common people is in stark contrast with official complacency.
By Mirko Klarin
The humanitarian catastrophe may give the impression that the NATO air strikes are failing. But the campaign is already having an impact, and can ultimately succeed.
Tensions are rising in the Sandzak, a predominantly Muslim region within Serbia. Many Muslims fear that ethnic cleansing awaits them too, and are leaving. Those who remain are being asked to help finance the Yugoslav Army.
Kosovo Albanians in Skopje feel strangely at home: on the streets and in the cafes, everyone is there. But something is wrong, and many are still missing.
KLA leader Hashim Thaci heads a new Kosovo Albanian administration dominated by the guerrillas and other opposition to long-time Kosovar leader Ibrahim Rugova.