Some have saved lost Kosovans in the mountains. Kosovo refugees streamed out of overcrowded makeshift camps to other parts of Albania yesterday as the flow of ethnic Albanians fleeing Kosovo slowed to a trickle, reports Reuters . Authorities have also begun drawing up plans for a possible military airlift of people from the camps and tent cities that have sprung up in and around Kukes, senior aid officials said. Le Monde reports NATO is failing to react to the demands of the emergency situation caused by the mass influx. In the northern area, new overcrowded and insalubrious camps are constantly being set up.
Aid workers admit they are overwhelmed.
British Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, on a visit to Albania, has warned refugees could start dying in NATO's hands if more effort is not put into the aid effort. AFP adds the International Migration Organisation is planning to register all 340,000 refugees from Kosovo currently in Albania and supply them with identity cards, its spokesman said yesterday. The Yugoslav army is expelling residents of three predominantly Muslim villages near the Montenegrin border with Kosovo and turning the villages into a second front line, residents who had been ousted said yesterday, reports AP . More than 400 people from the villages of Bukelj, Dacici and Kalundjerski Laz arrived in the town of Rozaje, relating tales of expulsion similar to those told by Kosovo Albanians. The villages that were emptied along the Kosovo frontier already were serving as host to scores of refugees from Kosovo.