Many of the refugees who leave Kosovo bring tales of atrocities committed against ethnic Albanian civilians.
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The blast in the predominantly ethnic Albanian village of Cernica also damaged houses owned by Serbs.
Ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova was reported to be in hiding, his home burned, Shea said.
Ethnic Albanian militants ambushed and killed eight Macedonian soldiers there in April, The Associated Press reported.
Key amendments grant the restive ethnic Albanian minority a greater role in police, parliament and education.
Colonel Blagoja Markovski said 22 Macedonian civilians were abducted by ethnic Albanian insurgents in villages around Tetovo.
High Commissioner for Refugees was caught unprepared by the scale of the ethnic Albanian exodus from Kosovo.
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The West has repeatedly accused Yugoslav security forces of war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo.
Of particular concern is the ever-volatile situation in the near-by ethnic Albanian enclave of Kosovo in Serbia.
Authorities claim the sites contain bodies of Macedonian civilians killed by ethnic Albanian insurgents earlier this year.
LONDON, England -- Ousted Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic says violence by ethnic Albanian rebels in Macedonia could spread.
But the Party for Democratic Prosperity (PDP), the main ethnic Albanian opposition grouping, said later it needed more time.
However, Mr Clinton rejected criticism of Nato's air war to drive Yugoslav forces out of predominantly ethnic Albanian Kosovo.
Ethnic Albanian rebels and Serb security forces operating in the Presevo Valley agreed a NATO-brokered ceasefire earlier this week.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- Fighting has broken between ethnic Albanian gunmen and Macedonian troops near the Macedonian border with Kosovo.
In a separate incident, international peace forces intervened between Serb and ethnic Albanian crowds in the north-western town of Mitrovica.
Among those attending Thursday's talks in Skopje is NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson who won praise from an ethnic Albanian rebel leader.
Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority broke away from Serbia in 1999 after an armed campaign which led to Nato intervening against Belgrade.
Serbia's reformist authorities say the guerrillas are terrorists whose only aim is to join the Presevo Valley onto ethnic Albanian-dominated Kosovo.
He and other politicians representing Macedonia's majority Slavs and the ethnic Albanian minority began a second day of talks on Saturday.
According to the peace deal, Macedonia was to pass increased rights for the ethnic Albanian minority in return for the weapons' surrender.
Mr Rugova represents the more moderate wing among Kosovo's ethnic Albanian politicians.
Ethnic Albanian insurgents began fighting Macedonian government forces in February, then agreed to a cease-fire in August in exchange for more rights.
Of the country's 2m people, more than a fifth are ethnic Albanian.
Earlier, he said ethnic Albanian rebels must be convinced that the reform process they say they want can be achieved by democratic means.
The European Union warned the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo last week that they faced international isolation unless attacks on Serbs were halted.
The ethnic Albanian rebel group has been battling Yugoslav troops for more than a year in a bid for independence for the province.
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Violence involving ethnic Albanian rebels has killed more than 30 people in the Presevo Valley adjoining Kosovo since it began early in 2000.
In practice, it is getting harder and harder to survive as a Serb or, some would say, as anyone but an ethnic Albanian in Kosovo.
Tension between Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority and remaining ethnic Serbs has led to violence in recent years, notably around customs posts in northern Kosovo.
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