After three previous attempts we reach villages north of Pristina which have been engulfed by a four-day government offensive. Ten thousand people have fled. The villagers are stoic. KLA soldiers have been helping old men, women and children from Kacanol mountain village northwest of Pristina. A military offensive is at its height.
Houses are on fire in villages in central Kosovo.
We pass a convoy of government trucks with signs pasted on them Social Humanitarian Aid of Kosovo and Metohija. The wind whips up the tarpaulin on one truck, revealing blue uniformed police crammed inside. High Commissioner Sadako Ogata visits Resnik 25 kilometers north of Pristina and talks with some of the 25,000 people who fled a military sweep in the region. Three Red Cross workers lie dead or dying on a sunlit hill at Gornje Obrinje after their car hit a land-mine. People try to attract a Yugoslav helicopter by waving Red Cross flags.