101. The refugees say Serb gunmen have been systematically emptying Pristina and marching its ethnic Albanians out through gantlets of masked, heavily armed Serbs. 102. The refugees say their neighbors regard them with suspicion and often treat them as presumed criminals. 103. The refugees say they are being dislodged from looted homes as rebels fighting ethnic groups loyal to Kabila have disrupted life in Sud-Kivu province. 104. The refugees said local villagers told them that paramilitaries had also killed two elderly adults in their homes, then raped and murdered four or five local women. 105. The refugees said that homes are being torched by the Serbs and that some ethnic Albanians are hiding in their basements. 106. The refugees said they had heard from residents of that village that some two dozen villagers were killed there. 107. The refugees said they have no intention of becoming rootless again, even if it means staying in a place they consider unfit to occupy. 108. The refugees said they still supported the fighters even though the Serbian forces had destroyed much of their property because they suspected them of harboring guerrillas, 109. The refugees say this was part of a long-range Serbian plan. 110. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that the refugees said they were plucked from the hospital floor, driven to the border and told to leave. |