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GA - March 30 - Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA-4th) says on the sixth day
of the war in Kosovo, there is still no movement towards peace and Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milosevic shows no sign of backing down.
Now, thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees are fleeing to neighboring
Albania and Montenegro in order to escape the atrocities in their homeland.
"This war is reaching a dangerous level," says Congresswoman McKinney.
"The President has launched bombs and missiles, in part, to save NATO's credibility. After six days, the government of Milosevic has faced down
the powerful assemblage of 19 of its European counterparts. This looks like war
and not peacekeeping to me."
NATO bombs pounded Yugoslavia for a sixth day while thousands of ethnic
Albanians fled their homeland in what is being called Europe's worst humanitarian disaster since World War II. Roughly 60,000 Kosovo Albanian
refugee's have arrived in Albania over the last couple of days.
Russia's Prime Minister is planning to go to Belgrade in an effort to end
the current crisis in Kosovo.
"So far, this bombing campaign has failed to make any headway toward peace.
However, I'm sure many African observers are wondering where the international community was in 1994 when one million Rwandans perished
without a squeak from the international community -- including NATO members.
And, I'm equally as sure that with nearly half of sub-Saharan Africa
engulfed in war and conflict, that Africans are wondering why, for all their current and past suffering, they only got an apology from President
Clinton. Seems to me, Africa just dropped off the planet," concludes Congresswoman
McKinney.
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