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Serb accused in massacre denied refugee status Friday, September 17, 2004 - Page A8 Windsor, Ont. -- A Serbian man accused of participating in a gruesome 1999 massacre in Kosovo that involved the killing of 19 women and children was being held in a Canadian jail last night. Dejan Demirovic, who had been living in Windsor while waiting for his refugee claim to be heard by a Canadian court, was ordered deported this week, CBC News reported yesterday. Five years ago, 19 people were lined up against a wall and sprayed with bullets in a village in Kosovo. Saranda Bogujevci,...

BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - Four ethnic Albanian children told a court Wednesday how Serb forces rounded up and gunned down their families with automatic weapons in one of the most brutal acts of the 1998-99 Kosovo war. Their testimony came during the trial of a Serb police officer accused of leading an assassination squad through their community during the war. The children, who were said to have positively identified the officer, Sasa Cvjetan, in his prison cell Tuesday, watched as Serb troops slaughtered 19 ethnic Albanian relatives, including their mothers, siblings and grandparents, on March 28, 1999, in the town...