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  Christmas in Kosovo by Christine Stone British Helsinki Human Rights Group Special to Antiwar.com 12/17/99 For the nuns and monks of the Serbian Patriarchate at Pec in Kosovo Christmas 1999 will be a sombre affair. Huddled in their monastery together with a few refugees, only the protection of Italian KFOR troops stands between them and an angry Albanian rabble outside. The beauty of the place contrasts all too sharply with the ugliness and chaos that exists all around them. More than 25,000 Serbs (a quarter of the town's population) lived in Pec before NATO's war to liberate Kosovo. None ...

Belgrade accuses physicians' group, top UN official By Julijana Mojsilovic, Reuters, 12/21/1999 BELGRADE - Yugoslavia accused Doctors Without Borders, the international aid agency awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize, of ''legalized espionage'' yesterday and the chief UN administrator in Kosovo of ''mafia-style behavior.'' Doctors Without Borders reports ''in fact serve as a framework for a kind of legalized espionage activities in the countries where they are present,'' Goran Matic, federal information minister, said at a news conference. In the third public attack by Yugoslav authorities on Bernard Kouchner in less than a month, Matic reminded reporters of the UN administrator's ...