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WHAT HAPPENED ON 7th April 1999?

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6th April 1999

Several European newspapers report on

the handover by Libya of two men wanted for trial in connection with the Lockerbie bombing. Liberationin Paris says that the news is "unanimously welcomed". "It offers in the current tragic context of Kosovo a rare counter- example of successful diplomatic pressure " the paper says.

7th April 1999

ETHNIC CLEANSING TROOPS TO BE TARGETED

Yugoslavian army units responsible for ethnic cleansing are to be individually targeted as the Nato bombing campaign is stepped up the US has warned. Defence Secretary William Cohen said allied aircraft would now "aggressively target" particular units. At a press briefing he read out a list of units & named their commanders. The raids now appear to have weakened the air defences enough for the allies to pick & choose their targets.

7th April 1999

SERBS WON'T DIVIDE US INSISTS BLAIR

The Nato alliance is resolute & will hold firm in its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia the Prime Minister has insisted. The bombing had inhibited ethnic cleansing & damaged the "military infrastructure military capability the Serb killing machine". Tony Blair declared: "There must be no question of half measures here." Ethnic cleansing must be defeeated & never allowed to resurface he added.

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6th April 1999

YEMENI JUDGE WARNS LAWYERS TO RETURN

The judge in the Yemeni trial of eight Britons has ordered the men's lawyers to stop boycotting the proceedings. The defence team has been warned to return to court after walking out in protest at not being allowed to hold private meetings with its clients. Judge Jamal Mohammad Omar says other lawyers may be asked to mount a defence Meanwhile Tony Blair has renewed the Government's appeal for an independent medical assessment of the eight men.

7th April 1999

ETHNIC CLEANSING TROOPS TO BE TARGETED

Yugoslavian army units responsible for ethnic cleansing are to be individually targeted as the Nato bombing campaign is stepped up the US has warned. Defence Secretary William Cohen said allied aircraft would now "aggressively target" particular units. At a press briefing he read out a list of units & named their commanders. The raids now appear to have weakened the air defences enough for the allies to pick & choose their targets.

7th April 1999

KOSOVO PROMPTS RUSSIA TO BOOST MILITARY

Russia has said it will bolster its armed forces in the wake of continuing Nato "aggression" against Yugoslavia. Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev said the world was in a state of "virtual partition" with "Nato assuming the role of an international gendarme". Marshal Sergeyev said the Russian armed forces would probably not be expanded beyond the current 1.2m level. But he said combat units would be strengthened "as a priority".

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6th April 1999

CIVILIAN CASUALTIES "REGRETTABLE" ` UK

Defence Secretary George Robertson has described as "deeply regrettable" any civilian casualties from Nato air raids Yugoslavia claims the latest raids have inflicted heavy civilian casualties in the town of Aleksinac. Nato spokesman Air Commodore David Wilby has admitted it is possible that a missile fell short in Aleksinac. At least 12 people were said to have been killed in what was described by Nato as "our most intensive night yet".

7th April 1999

ETHNIC CLEANSING TROOPS TO BE TARGETED

Yugoslavian army units responsible for ethnic cleansing are to be individually targeted as the Nato bombing campaign is stepped up the US has warned. Defence Secretary William Cohen said allied aircraft would now "aggressively target" particular units. At a press briefing he read out a list of units & named their commanders. The raids now appear to have weakened the air defences enough for the allies to pick & choose their targets.

7th April 1999

KOSOVO PICTURES "LOOK LIKE MASS GRAVES"

Nato has made public aerial photographs of Kosovo which it says look "somewhat similar" to shots of mass graves seen during the war in Bosnia. The pictures were taken in Pusto Sela southwest of the capital Pristina. Spokesman Jamie Shea said the ground looked recently turned over. Meanwhile US Defence Secretary William Cohen said: "I suspect...that we are mass graves mass executions."

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6th April 1999

La Tribunein Paris says that public

opinion on both sides of the Atlantic is "astonished by the lack of visible effects from the air strikes". It contrasts the public refusal by the West to contemplate sending ground troops with the US decision to send new forces to the region. "To make Milosevic yield there remains a recourse to a land offensive which for the moment everyone dreads & the United States continues officially to rule out " it says.

7th April 1999

ETHNIC CLEANSING TROOPS TO BE TARGETED

Yugoslavian army units responsible for ethnic cleansing are to be individually targeted as the Nato bombing campaign is stepped up the US has warned. Defence Secretary William Cohen said allied aircraft would now "aggressively target" particular units. At a press briefing he read out a list of units & named their commanders. The raids now appear to have weakened the air defences enough for the allies to pick & choose their targets.

7th April 1999

BELGRADE IN WITHDRAWAL PLAN SAYS MP

Yugoslavia is prepared to withdraw its troops from Kosovo if Nato pulls out its units from Macedonia & Albania ` according to a Russian parliamentarian. Nikolai Ryzhkov announced the offer by Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic to reporters in Belgrade. But a BBC correspondent says Nato is unlikely to be prepared to commit itself to any withdrawal from the area. Yesterday Yugoslavia announced a truce ` which was met with scorn by Nato.

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