(20 May 1999) Albanian/Nat
Amid reports that hundreds of Serb soldiers have deserted the army, the K-L-A's Kosova Press news agency on Thursday said rebels had ambushed a Yugoslav unit, killing 20 soldiers.
As such reports of rising unrest in Kosovo emerge, fresh recruits for the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army are in Albania, training to join the fight to force Serb forces to retreat from the stricken province.
A-P-T-N spent the day at a training camp on the Kosovo-Albanian border.
These men are preparing to take up the Kosovo Liberation Army cause in the wartorn province.
Many of them have travelled from Europe, including England and Belgium.
A month-and-a-half of training in Albania will see them cross the border to try to force Serb forces to retreat from Kosovo.
The United States claims there is increasing unrest in the province, saying it received reports that 5-hundred Serb soldiers had deserted and that some had joined families demonstrating against the war.
The K-L-A says NATO is helping its cause.
SOUNDBITE: (Albanian)
"NATO helped us before and is helping us at this moment. NATO is one of the factors to solve our problems. NATO's help is welcome here and elsewhere. And for the martyred population of Kosovo."
SUPER CAPTION: KLA Vice Commander (name withheld)
Among its five conditions to end the bombings, NATO is seeking a total withdrawal of all of Milosevic's forces in Kosovo and a return of all of the refugees.
The K-L-A vice commander here in Albania says the group is gearing up to offer protection to displaced Kosovar Albanians.
SOUNDBITE: (Albanian)
"The refugees are now hiding in the mountains and the situation is very very bad. We are preparing to help them while they move from one location to another, mostly separated from their families."
SUPER CAPTION: KLA Vice Commander (name withheld)
The guerrilla news agency on Thursday said Kosovo rebels ambushed a Yugoslav unit, killing 20 soldiers - including a lieutenant-colonel.
The Kosovo Liberation Army's Kosova Press said rebels buried the soldiers, following the Tuesday ambush along the road from Pristina to Leskovac, southern Serbia.
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