Some 21 Serb-held houses in the southern town of Prizren alone were burned in 48 hours. The situation of some 100,000 Serbs who have fled from Kosovo to Serbia proper is grim. They are keen to have them back in Kosovo rather than in Belgrade or somewhere else in Serbia. We think that it is irresponsible. Janowski said bureaucratic measures were being used to give Kosovo Serbs the clear message that they were not welcome.
Registration is the key to pensions, fuel coupons and schooling.
Perhaps they were not physically forced to go, but they were put under duress and pressure to do it. Whenever you talk to Serbs in Kosovo, they all say they want to be taken out. We don't think there is any significant number of Serbs who want to go back to Kosovo. Major Jan Joosten said at a daily news briefing that investigators were looking into reports of sites in western Kosovo containing bodies near the village of Ljubenic. Opposition leaders took their campaign to oust Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to one of his strongholds on Thursday and were greeted by gunshots by his local party leader.