(31 Mar 1999) Natural Sound
Young male Kosovo-Albanian refugees arriving in Albania are being sent back into the Serbian province to fight for the Kosovo Liberation Army (K-L-A).
An estimated 3-thousand refugees an hour are passing through the Albanian border, following alleged Serb aggression.
K-L-A troops are in Albania checking the refugee buses for those fit enough to return and fight.
Kosovo-Albanians fleeing the fighting in Kosovo are continuing to arrive in Albania.
Several thousand who passed into the country on Tuesday spent the night in an encampment outside Kukes.
Albanian authorities were on hand in the morning to bus the refugees to bigger camps by the Albanian capital, Tirana.
An estimated 118,000 people have fled to Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro, the smaller of Yugoslavia's two provinces, since NATO airstrikes began March 24.
The U-N-H-C-R says about 85-thousand refugees have poured into Albania alone.
For the first time, K-L-A soldiers have been witnessed on the Albanian side of the border, looking for men of fighting age.
The red-bereted soldiers are checking vehicles for men who can fight and removing them to training camps.
Most of the young men are reported to be very willing recruits.
It's unclear how many have been recruited since tens of thousands of terrified Kosovo Albanians began streaming over the border last weekend.
It's also unclear how much coercion has been used to convince men and boys to leave their families and report to makeshift camps which the rebels maintain in the hills a
few kilometres (miles) west of the border.
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