The spirit is the same but the methods are better. This is how they do it. Many are local men. Backing them, usually from a distance, is the army. Then come the police.
Refugees testify that once they are on the move, the paramilitaries disappear.
Traffic police mark out the deportation routes, barking orders for the refugees to keep moving. Villagers from the town of Srbica say they were herded from village to village by police units, one handing them over to the next. As refugees queue to cross the border, the paramilitaries and police regroup for a final bout of abuse. Baton Haxhiu, editor of the leading Albanian newspaper, said that while he waited in a four-day traffic jam to get into Macedonia, two women, ages 21 and 23, were dragged from a nearby car, raped and returned to the vehicle later that day. This ethnic cleansing began the week before NATO's air offensive was launched March 24, but the bombing saw the real outbreak of savagery.