21.   Ethnic Albanian villagers parked tractors and cars across a road in the tense northwestern part of the country Tuesday, blocking Macedonian police from reclaiming former rebel strongholds.

22.   Ethnic Albanian villagers claim Serb forces lay low when foreign observers visit communities, then return to harass them after the foreigners leave.

23.   Ethnic Albanian villagers try to find the refugees first and shelter them in their homes.

24.   Ethnic Albanian villagers, who said the monastery protected them during the Serb rampage, pledged to defend the monks with their lives.

25.   Experts unearthed two bodies Monday as potential evidence in the U.N. war crimes tribunal investigation of Macedonian troops accused of attacking ethnic Albanian villagers.

26.   Ethnic Albanian villagers from the northwestern village of Poroj prevented a refugee convoy of Macedonians from nearby Vratnice from returning to the capital, Skopje.

27.   Ethnic Albanian villagers in Batusa, in a border area with neighboring Albania, said they heard artillery fire for most of the night and saw helicopters flying overhead.

28.   Ethnic Albanian villagers who escaped faced beatings and gunfire before being forced to join the exodus toward the Macedonian border, the refugees say.

29.   Four French peacekeepers were slightly injured when they tried to break up a scuffle between Serb and ethnic Albanian villagers in northern Kosovo, a NATO spokesman said Monday.

30.   He spoke on the heels of a series of reported massacres of Albanian villagers.