61. Ignoring NATO threats, Serb security forces backed by tanks and artillery Monday pounded the hills near an ethnic Albanian village where dozens were massacred. 62. In raids on Albanian villages and on alleged smugglers, the authorities claim to have confiscated more than five tons of weapons. 63. In the last few weeks, Serb security forces killed scores of people during a violent sweep of ethnic Albanian villages in the southern province of Kosovo. 64. In raids on Albanian villages and alleged smugglers, police claim to have confiscated more than five tons of weapons. 65. Kraja said Serb shelling and gunfire on Albanian villages below are considered provocation to evoke a military response from Albania. 66. Launching a new crackdown in restive Kosovo, Serbian police sealed off several ethnic Albanian villages Thursday. 67. Macedonia restored ethnically mixed police patrols to three more ethnic Albanian villages Wednesday in an attempt to re-assert control over the troubled northwestern part of the country. 68. Meanwhile, independent media in Serbia reported that the last two Serb residents in a predominantly ethnic Albanian village in southern Serbia were missing and feared slain. 69. Most civilians in the ethnic Albanian villages in the area had fled their homes before the government assault began. 70. On the Albanian border, Serb forces shelled a deserted Albanian village they had briefly seized a day earlier. |
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