31.   Agram Kryezin fled his village in the central Drenica area a month ago, leaving fields of wheat and corn, three cows, several goats and some chickens.

32.   All the other residents had fled the village.

33.   Already, fighting has forced thousands of people to flee their villages in the north and west.

34.   An elderly man who was brought in on a hammock said he fled his village when a band of young fighters raided homes looking for food.

35.   As the army advanced, thousands of peasants who have sympathized with the rebels fled their villages.

36.   Before fleeing the village the gunmen killed two men playing cards in a nearby shop.

37.   Because of the war, people living in the countryside have fled their villages and often live nomadic lives in search of food, water and secure shelter.

38.   British forces tried to organize a return Sunday for some Serbs who had fled mixed villages and taken refuge in the Serb stronghold of Donja Gusterica.

39.   But the center, which is close to the ethnic Albanian leadership, said most of the women and children had already fled the village.

40.   By late Sunday, the young men were fleeing the village, vowing to get even with the Indian military.