So far 225,889 Kosovo refugees have obtained refuge in Macedonia. Some 77,000 of them are in refugee camps and the others are with host families, according to Macedonian government figures. A total 57,150 refugees have left Macedonia by plane, they say. Meanwhile CNN reports the number of Kosovo refugees evacuated from Macedonia to third countries topped the 50,000 mark yesterday, when 1,400 ethnic Albanians left for Turkey and Canada. No refugees crossed into Albania yesterday as of late afternoon and in the past six days, fewer than 100 have reached the Morini border post, reports AP .
International officials are unsure why.
But based on what other refugees have told us, we think the Serbs are probably stopping them. Some recently arrived refugees have said that thousands more were behind them, but they've yet to arrive at the border. The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has assured ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo that the NATO campaign to return them to their homes will be successful, reports BBC News . They are the future of Kosovo and they should have the same future as we have in Western Europe for our children. The Guardian and the Independent also report.