But two reports help to answer the question of where tens of thousands of Albanian Kosovar men may have gone.
1) Yesterday Sky interviewed a peasant man in his later thirties, with hands bandaged. He described how he and other men in the village had fled their homes when the Serbs came from door to door, and went up into the hills. They were surrounded by armed men. The men were separated from the boys and they were made to go into two houses. When they were inside the armed men opened fire.
The witness said he immediately fell to the ground. When the firing ended the armed men threw in straw and set it alight. He got burned but escaped.
2)
Missing Kosovo Men Were Shot
>From the Press Association
Saturday April 3, 1999 9:04 pm
The first documentary evidence of Serb atrocities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo has emerged in a video showing the bodies of villagers - many shot in the head.
The horrific footage appears to confirm the testimony of the thousands of refugees pouring out of the Yugoslav province since the Serbs' "ethnic cleansing" of the area escalated dramatically on March 24.
The refugees have consistently claimed that the Serbs separated men aged 16 to 60 from the rest of the population before ordering the women and children to leave their homes.
The fate of the missing men has, until now, been uncertain, although Western leaders and most independent commentators feared the worst. The shows the aftermath of a Serb massacre at the village of Krusa, near the town of Pec, on March 25.
Taken by villager Milaim Bellanica, who hid for seven days after the killings, the pictures show that many of the bodies had bullet wounds to the back of the head or under the jaw.
Mr Bellanica, who risked death to smuggle the video past Serb soldiers to the safety of Albania, also provided a list of the names of 26 of the victims personally know to him.
He insisted the victims, who had been caught trying to escape as Serb militiamen surrounded the village, were mainly farmers and not involved in the armed struggle for Kosovan independence.
Mr Bellanica told the BBC: "They were killed one by one. A group of Serbs were on the top of the hill. Others came from behind. Our men were captured and the Serbs killed them one after the other."
The pictures were so horrific that BBC1 decided not to screen them on its early evening news at 5.15pm, instead waiting until after the watershed to show them.
Mr Bellanica said: "I have done this so that my son, my grandson, the next generation will never forget what the Serbs have done to the Albanian people."
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Clearly this is a war by Serbian nationalists to annexe the province of Kosovo by means of genocide.
It is the logical continuation of the Serbian social fascist views, that unfortunately are copied around the internet uncritically by left liberal anti-imperialists.
Chris Burford