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INTRO | | The early effects of the peace deal on people in Kosovo started to become apparent. We heard from BBC correspondents June Kelly, based in the town of Rozaje in Montenegro and Orla Guerin at the Macedonia-Kosovo border. |
IN FULL | |  | Listen to the report in full |
 |  | 17th June 1999 Kosovo Peace Deal - Early Effects
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| NEWS 1 | | The town of Rozaje is just a few kilometres from the Kosovan border. As soon as the peace deal was signed, ethnic Serbs started heading for the town on the first stage of their flight from Kosovo. Since the arrival of NATO forces the numbers have increased markedly. The authorities in Rozaje say that more than nine thousand ethnic Serbs have now crossed into Montenegro, the junior partner in the Yugoslav Federation. Whole families are on the move, crammed into cars with their belongings strapped to the roof. (June Kelly) |
WORDS | | heading for: travelling towards somewhere flight: the act of running away from a dangerous or unpleAsant situation crammed: very full with things or people belongings: all the things that a person owns |
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| NEWS 2 | | The return to Kosovo has begun in earnest; it is unplanned, uncontrolled and, it seems, impossible to stop. The United Nations refugee agency is horrified; refugees going home now run the risk of straying into mine fields. UNHCR spokesman Dennis McNamara has urged those in the camps to wait. But many are not prepared to listen. They poured across the border today - among them, elderly men and women who came on foot struggling with large carrier bags. We watched entire families returning, bringing young children back to an environment full of risk. (Olga Guerin) |
| WORDS | | unplanned, uncontrolled, impossible: using the prefixes 'un' or 'im' gives words the opposite meaning run the risk: taking the chance that what you're doing will cause problems for you straying: to walk into somewhere accidentally on foot: an expression which means walking |
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| | | Read about the background in BBC News Online |
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