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NATO ATTACKS ON YUGOSLAVIA
UPDATE * APRIL 1, 1999
KOSOVO ALBANIAN LEADER DENOUNCES NATO BOMBING
Kosovo Albanian political leader Ibrahim Rugova denounced NATO's bombing
campaign and demanded an immediate end to NATO's destruction of Kosovo.
Rugova, who NATO and Pentagon officials had claimed was assassinated by
Yugoslav police, spoke from his home in Kosovo on March 31.
Rugova was one of the key Albanian representatives at the talks in
France.
On April 1, Rugova met with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. In a
joint statement the two made on Yugoslva television, Rugova and
Milosevic said that the problems in Kosovo can only be settled by
"political means."
CANADIAN AUTO WORKERS DENOUNCE AIRSTRIKES
Buzz Hargrove, head of the Canadian Auto Workers union, criticized the
Canadian government's decision to participate in NATO air strikes
against Yugoslavia.
Hargrove said that the air strikes were not sanctioned by the United
Nations and could not be characterized as "peacekeeping," UPI reported
on March 31.
U.S. IS BOMBING CIVILIAN SHELTERS IN KOSOVO
ABC News Nightline reported on March 29: "Late this evening, an
Australian aid agency reported a new cost of the war in Yugoslavia. For
the first time we are hearing of refugee centers in Yugoslavia hit by
NATO bombs. Care Australia says at least two centers housing women and
children were hit, nine people killed and another four centers may have
been damaged.
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