Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Amnesty International calls for investigation into the murder of Slavko Curuvija
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<H2>US must ensure that NATO protects refugees following Yugoslav campaign of mass expulsion</H2>
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<FONT SIZE="4">Amnesty International Increases Presence in Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania to Document War Crimes and Monitor Treatment of Refugees</FONT><BR>
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The refugee crisis is a direct result of a calculated campaign of mass expulsion in Kosovo and the culmination of a decade's violent repression and human rights violations by Yugoslav security forces and paramilitary units, testified Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) today before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Senate Committee on the Judiciary. The human rights organization called on the US government to galvanize NATO nations to ensure that no further harm comes to the refugees who have already suffered and lost so much. Special concern was noted for internally displaced people in Kosovo and the lack of information regarding their welfare. AIUSA also called on the US government to immediately begin providing the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia all documentation critical to the future indictment of war criminals.<BR>
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"The images of refugees that flash across our tv screens are a fleeting glimpse of a very personal, unfathomable nightmare come to life," said Maureen Greenwood, AIUSA's Advocacy Director for the Middle East and Europe. "The NATO nations must assume their responsibility to protect these people. Amnesty International will be watching carefully to see that all refugees receive the full protection they are afforded under international law.<BR>
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While Amnesty International has had researchers in the field as the full dimensions of the refugee crisis unfolded, it announced today preparations to increase that presence. In addition to documenting refugees' accounts of human rights crimes, they will monitor the standards of protection that refugees receive in host countries, both in and out of the region. All confirmed information will be critical to future indictments in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The organization called on the US government to urge NATO to share all intelligence with the tribunal now and arrest indicted war criminals.<BR>
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"If the international community had embraced more vigorously the work of the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia, including pursuing and arresting indicted war crimes suspects, perhaps it could have served as a more effective deterrent to war crimes in Kosovo," said Greenwood. "U.S. support for the International Criminal Court would also be a factor in deterring abuse, and the lack of such support is regrettable."<BR>
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Amnesty International has received consistent and credible reports that Kosovar Albanians have been forced to leave their houses and apartment blocks. Some refugees have been ordered to leave on trucks and buses, some transported to the border in sealed trains, and others have made their way on foot. Refugees in Northern Albania provided Amnesty International with eye-witness tales of systematic extra-judicial executions carried out by Yugoslav and Serbian security forces and paramilitary groups. The vast majority of those who have succeeded in fleeing the country are women, children, and elderly men.<BR>
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According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Washington office as of April 13th, there are currently 65,500 refugees and displaced persons in Montenegro, 116,500 in Macedonia, and 314,300 in Albania. Humanitarian evacuations from Macedonia have reached 9,351 people. According to UNICEF there are between 400,000 and 750,000 internally displaced persons in Kosovo. <BR>
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