Serbs Keep Attacking Kosovo Rebels
Serbian forces overran another ethnic Albanian stronghold Monday and pressed their attacks elsewhere in Kosovo after a weekend of fighting that displaced tens of thousands of people.
The seizure of Lausa and widespread shelling in the province comes just days after Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic vowed that his military push against the secessionist Kosovo Liberation Army was over.
The attacks have created a refugee population that puts Kosovo “on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe,” U.S. envoy Christopher Hill said Monday.
Meanwhile, the Clinton administration said Monday that the Serbian offensive could result in the use of NATO firepower against Serbian forces in the province.
The agency estimated that at least 50,000 people fled, swelling the number of refugees to 200,000 since March.
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