NATO ATTACKS ON YUGOSLAVIA UPDATE * APRIL 1, 1999
KOSOVO ALBANIAN LEADER DENOUNCES NATO BOMBING Kosovo Albanian political leader Ibrahim Rugova denounced NATO's bombing campaign and demanded an immediate end to NATO's destruction of Kosovo. Rugova, who NATO and Pentagon officials had claimed was assassinated by Yugoslav police, spoke from his home in Kosovo on March 31. Rugova was one of the key Albanian representatives at the talks in France.
On April 1, Rugova met with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. In a joint statement the two made on Yugoslva television, Rugova and Milosevic said that the problems in Kosovo can only be settled by "political means."
CANADIAN AUTO WORKERS DENOUNCE AIRSTRIKES Buzz Hargrove, head of the Canadian Auto Workers union, criticized the Canadian government's decision to participate in NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia.
Hargrove said that the air strikes were not sanctioned by the United Nations and could not be characterized as "peacekeeping," UPI reported on March 31.
U.S. IS BOMBING CIVILIAN SHELTERS IN KOSOVO ABC News Nightline reported on March 29: "Late this evening, an Australian aid agency reported a new cost of the war in Yugoslavia. For the first time we are hearing of refugee centers in Yugoslavia hit by NATO bombs. Care Australia says at least two centers housing women and children were hit, nine people killed and another four centers may have been damaged.