Kosovo Aid Convoys Hit the Road Again
Relief convoys rolled into Kosovo on Tuesday, a day after renewed violence halted aid shipments and raised fears for the future of a U.S.-brokered deal to end fighting in the breakaway Serbian province.
After ethnic Albanian attacks on Serbian police over the weekend that killed three officers, the government moved tanks and troops to a front line in central Kosovo.
Although the Serbs accused the guerrillas of another attack Tuesday, Kosovo appeared mostly calm.
Humanitarian groups sent about 150 tons of food, clothing, mattresses and other items to Djinovce, 45 miles southwest of Pristina, the provincial capital.
On Monday, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees had called off two convoys of relief supplies in the wake of the Serbian military buildup.
Hundreds of people have been killed since Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic launched a crackdown Feb. 28 on ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo.
As winter approaches, officials fear a humanitarian disaster if the estimated 300,000 people displaced by fighting are not allowed home.
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