An ethnic Albanian refugee is carried by another refugee while trying to reach a bus after crossing into Macedonia at the Blace border. Tell NATO we need jumbo planes, not little ones,'' shouts a frazzled airlift coordinator. Albania needs more tents, says another. Macedonia is again threatening to shut its borders.
Medicines are scarce everywhere.
An Albanian soldier beat up a refugee. More food is arriving. It is a chilling experience, to see tented refugee camps in Europe at the end of the 20th Century,'' said spokesman Kris Janowski, a veteran of refugee crisis in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Africa. Luckily, Wright added, Yugoslavia has shown no inclination so far to make matters even worse by resettling in Kosovo some of the 502,000 Serb refugees from the wars in Bosnia and Croatia now sheltered in Yugoslavia. For now, such concerns remain on hold for a refugee commission worldwide staff of 4,600 struggling with the Kosovo crisis as well as some 22 million other refugees and displaced persons around the world, most in Africa and Asia.