1.   An ethnic Albanian village near the border, Seciste, remained deserted, some of its houses scarred by fire.

2.   And in the Albanian villages where the Kosovo Liberation Army was strongest, he said, he was sure that terrible things happened.

3.   Each Albanian village was more damaged than the last, each more deserted.

4.   Every Albanian village in the area has dug graves to bury war dead and has accounts of random killings.

5.   Few senior police officials are of Albanian descent, even in Albanian villages, and the military is dominated by Macedonians.

6.   Foreign diplomats have roundly condemned the rebel activity and support the operation to reassert government control over the Albanian villages.

7.   He was angry that NATO had not followed up its bombing campaign by sending troops into Kosovo to halt the killings and destruction of Albanian villages.

8.   In a few hours, they saw smoke coming from Okllap, a nearby Albanian village.

9.   In most Albanian villages, it seemed that more than half the homes were burned.

10.   Later Wednesday, refugees said that Serb paramilitary units carried out a separate attack on Varosh, an Albanian village on the main road three miles south of Urosevac.