RETURN OF ETHNIC ALBANIANS IN ORGANISED CONVOYS BEGINS ON MONDAY

PRISTINA, June 28 (Hina) - The organised return of ethnic Albanians to towns of Pristina, Prizren and Urosevac, should start on Monday with the assistance of the UN High Commission for Refugees. A first group of 400 refugees in ten busses is expected to arrive in Pristina from Macedonian makeshift camps today. So far, about 400,000 Albanians have come back home from Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro, whereas an estimated 400,000 refugees is still in camps or other shelters outside Kosovo. While ethnic Albanians are coming back, local Serbs are fleeing. Serbs en masse are leaving Pec. On Sunday, the international peace-keepers in Kosovo (KFOR) found corpses of 97 civilians in three Kosovo villages. They are believe to have been victims of Serbian forces' attacks. First UN policemen are to arrive in Pristina on Monday and their task is to create pre-conditions for the set-up of democratic police in Kosovo and to ease tension between ethnic groups in the province. KFOR has not managed to prevent violence in Kosovo in recent days when damage has been done to Serb houses. British KFOR troops last night took over control of Grand Hotel in Pristina after some members of the Kosovo Liberation Army had tried to expel employees of the hotel insisting on the re-employment of previously sacked Albanian workers. (hina) ms