Of particular concern, according to the report, is the disarming of land mines, unexploded bombs and booby-traps, particularly in the border areas and entry points that returning refugees are most likely to use. The report said UN officials should start demining the border and launch a ''mine awareness'' campaign in refugee camps. The UN should also survey housing in Kosovo and inform refugees about the level of destruction, and other living conditions. If needed, community leaders should be allowed ''go and see'' trips to assess the situation for themselves. As ethnic Albanian refugees continue to flee Kosovo, a growing number are leaving less out of fear of Serb oppression and more because of simple hunger, UN officials said yesterday, reports AP .
Refugees tell of leaving behind looted stores, burned homes and fallow fields.
There is also concern that some 130,000 internally displaced persons will be compelled to leave Kosovo because of food shortages. Meanwhile AP reports the International Rescue Committee, a US-based aid group, yesterday dropped 100 meal packets to some 50,000 people thought to be starving in Kosovo's mountains. It said technical problems prevented it from dropping the full load of 2,000 meals. Kosovo Albanian refugees reacted with scepticism yesterday to reports that President Slobodan Milosevic had accepted a peace deal which will eventually allow them to return home, reports AP . We're not going to believe Milosevic any more.