1. The refugees were sent back against their will. 2. To send a refugee to a country that he had not even heard of is to violate the spirit of the law. 3. At the Pentagon, officials insisted the plan to send refugees to Guantanamo had never been finalized and the initial stage of the crisis was passing. 4. But the strife is rarely localized, often sending refugees fleeing across borders and threatening to flame ethnic tensions nearby. 5. But they angrily asserted that the administration had betrayed them by deciding to send future refugees back and said they feared a reconciliation with the Communist island nation. 6. Continued instability in Albania would likely send refugees streaming into Greece and other neighboring countries. 7. Fighting in Kosovo could send refugees into Macedonia which could draw Greece and Turkey into the conflict on opposite sides, he said. 8. If not, the refugees will be sent back to Haiti on the ships that delivered them. 9. Late on Wednesday evening, the official Yugoslav news agency reported that the refugees would be sent to the Kosovo region of Serbia. 10. Nevertheless, he denied that refugees were being sent away against their will, or without being told of their destination. |