Kris Janowski Quotations

We are pretty much approaching the line of an almost Serb-free Kosovo, which is an extremely sad phenomenon. One exodus is following another.

We've always said that fear is the main problem. And that needs to be allayed.

We are very far away from returning refugees to Kosovo or returning displaced people within the province to their original homes because, as we speak, people are still being expelled from Kosovo.

Many of the 400 displaced people living there have lost belongings.

We are extremely concerned, since the people are terrified. We are absolutely sure that it's not that the people turned around themselves. They are being forcible prevented from leaving Kosovo.

Otherwise, the people will be living on top of each other, under extreme weather conditions, which will eventually lead to disease and other problems.

Virtually all of the 28 have received verbal threats and begged to be evacuated.

We are happy that the governments have offered us a total of 85,000 places for refugees from Macedonia. The bottleneck, however, is the number of people who are actually being flown out. More people need to be flown out of Macedonia.

We've not had reports over the last 10 days or so that we used to have of murders or other atrocities almost every day. It is slowly getting better, but most Serbs are gone.

They alleged 20 of them (the men) were executed and they actually saw the bodies.

The Serbian border is, allegedly or reportedly, formally open but no one's crossing, which makes us believe that the Serbs are basically stopping people and preventing them from reaching the border.

The stories ... seem to indicate that a lot more people have been killed over the past few days ... than in any other single case of attack before.

The things which have been happening in the detention centre show you how desperate these people are. The trouble stems from the detention.

This is the first case in some time where people are staying in the open. And it has brought the refugee problem to the doorstep of Macedonia for the first time.

This has been a huge blow to the whole idea of multi-ethnicity, not only of Sarajevo but the entire country.

They say a humanitarian disaster is looming in the capital unless some kind of cease-fire is arranged and humanitarian supplies can be brought in.

So-called winter training exercises by security forces, held in the midst of an already very tense situation, intimidate the local population and drive civilians out of their homes.