More ethnic Albanians from Kosovo were transported to Germany and Turkey today. Macedonia's Government says that it cannot take any more refugees, as that could destabilise the country. However, the process is dividing families and causing them enormous distress.
Relief agencies in Albania said that around six thousand more people from Kosovo crossed the border on Friday and Saturday after being forced from their homes by Serbian troops and police. NATO has accepted that it is powerless for the moment to help what it says are hundreds of thousands more, who are stranded inside the Serb province.
The Head of the United Nations Children’s Fund, Carol Bellamy, has said that half of the three hundred thousand refugees in Albania are children. She said that the trauma they had suffered was likely to be long lasting.
