Melentie Pandilovski on Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:33:15 +0200 |
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Forwarded by Melentie Pandilovski <mpandil@soros.org.mk> MACEDONIAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION DAILY UPDATE ON SITUATION IN MACEDONIA Monday, April 19, 1999 EXCERPT ... Macedonian police discovered secrete warehouses of KLA...During the weekend 3.000 refugees from Kosovo have passed the border...The settlers around the camps Brazda and Stenkovec do not alowe the extending of the camps...The air-bridge still exists, although with reduced capacity...The refugee lists available on Internet. SECURITY SITUATION The Macedonian police has found an underground base of KLA in abandoned mine at the v. Lojane near Kumanovo, with 4,5 T of weapons and munitions. An improvised shooting ground and a masked machine-gun nest were also found there. An underground hiding place, with 10.000 pieces of bullets and 253 hand bombs hidden, was found in the v. Radolishte near Struga. After the police search in the v. Vaksince near Kumanovo, a certain quantity of weapons and munitions was found in 6 private houses. Refering to this, the Minister of Defence, Mr. Nikola Kljusev and the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Pavle Trajanov stated that there is a possibility that Government will came up with decision to forbid the movements in the area 10 km from the north border. Border On Saturday, the soldiers of the Army of R.Macedonia have stopped the illegal enter of 10 Albanians from Kosovo and handed them over to the police. In the v. Tanushevci, near the border, the Army has found 1.200 refugees >from Kosovo who were sheltered in private houses. The refugees were transferred to Stenkovec. About 700 refugees have passed the border at Blace on Saturday, and yesterday there were almost no passings at all. At Jazince, during the weekend, 1.571 refugees passed the border, and 500 more were waiting. Most of these people were transported to Stenkovec and a smaller part to Neproshteno. REFUGEES According to Makfaks, the Prime minister of the Government of RM, Mr. Ljupco Georgievski, in his conversation with the General Wesley Clark, on Saturday 17.04.1999, has again reminded the military official of the other countries obligation to accept the refugees, considering the fact that, this crisis does not have only a humanitarian, but also economic and political character. The UNHCR has still not finished the registration of the refugees in the camps. Camps On yesterday's negotiations with the owners of the land, who are mostly citizens of the communities on Skopska Crna Gora (mountain in Macedonia), the Ministry of Urbanism and Civil Constructions has faced a very strong attitude that not allows the extending of the camp Brazda-Stenkovec. Unofficially, there are 38.000 refugees in the both camps in Stenkovec. Three teams of the Health Institution from Skopje are in charge of the health condition in the camp. These teams are financed by the Fund of Health Security of R.Macedonia and treating about 100 patients per day. The team of Medecins Sans Frontieres consisted of 13 doctors and 10 nurses is managing to treat 600-700 not very ill people. The Israeli hospital, where 14 military doctors and 7 nurses are working, is equipped by surgery hall, laboratory, roentgen and other departments. In this hospital with a capacity of 100 beds, more than 1.500 patients have been treated, and among them- there was one successful appendix surgery and 10 healthy baby deliveries. The merging of the members of a wider families has started on Saturday. Till now, 26 citizens of RM have been arrested for smuggling in the refugee camps and 9 people for offering a bribe for an illegal escaping from the camps. The public enterprise "Drisla" has taken over the cleaning of the refugee camps from the public enterprise "Komunalna higiena". About 150 T of garbage from the camps are collected every day. On today's press-conference, NATO has stated that all the camps except from Neproshteno( that will be handed over on Wednesday 21.04.99) are handed over to the competence of the NGOs. NATO will be furthermore available for emergency cases, especially referring the transport, connections and logistics. Air-bridge During the weekend, 590 refugees were transported abroad trough the air-bridge, 273 to Germany, 169 to France and 169 to Belgium. ACTIVITIES MCIC During the weekend activities for organisation of the life were performed in the camp Radusha. One big tent is enabled for school for the children, and TV sets will be installed. Hygienic parcels were given out. Food products were distributed in the camp as well. Area around the tabs is concreted, there are washing tabs and water in the toilets, therefore the hygiene is on the higher level. Also, the station for chlorazing the water is installed. On the Saturday night group of 150 refugees arrived, that have passed on the passing Jazince, and are sheltered in the buildings of the mining community Radusha. The SOS tel.(++389 91 139 009), organised by MCIC for help and informing of the refugees is used for collecting data on the separated refugee families. The data will be published every Friday in daily newspaper in Albanian language " Fakti", from Skopje. Till yesterday, one family is reunited. Other Organisation El Hilal is shearing food every day( vegetable oil, pasta, juice, biscuits, milk, sardines, marmalade, salt, potatoes and flower) and hygienic issues(soap, shampoo and detergents) to 200 refugee families from different parts in Skopje, most of them having 7-10, even more members. El Hilal is in need of flower, pasta, vegetable oil, rice, beans, detergents, dippers, shampoo and soap. Rom's Organisation of Women in Macedonia "Daja"-Kumanovo is distributing food, clothing, sheets and blankets, and baby parcels, to the refugees staying with the families, organises school activities for the children refugees and helps in sheltering and humanitary assisting of the refugees. ROWM " Daja" provides all these products through Karitas, Decep, Found for urgent action and her own activities. "Moon"- Gostivar, has distributed the help in food, beds and sheets and blankets, procured by MCIC, Karitas-Esen and from European Prospective Decep from Greece , to 38 families with 176 persons. Union of Democratic Initiative from Gostivar has created a web page, that contains lists of registered refugees, aiming reunion of separated families. The address of the web page is: www.refugjat.org . Yesterday, 6 trunks with 77 T of humanitarian help from Greece arrived in Macedonia. One of the trunks suppose to go for Serbia. 102 T more of Greek humanitarian help are expected. 200.000 doses of vaccines against the children paralysis and 30.000 doses against measles, rubella and mumps from UNICEF arrived in RM, as well as 50.000 doses of the same vaccine from the World Health Organisation. EBRD will examine closely emergency help measures for Macedonia and Albania, says Royters. Nikola Parapunov bb l P.O. Box 835 l 91000 Skopje l Republika Makedonija Tel.: 091/365 381 l Faks: 091/365 298 l E-mail: mcms@informa.mk l www.mcms.org.mk ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/east/ to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress