ALBANIAN PROSECUTORS GATHER EVIDENCE ON KOSOVO MASSACRES

TIRANA, April 18 (Hina) - Prosecutors from Tirana, Kukes and other Albanian towns are intensively searching for evidence on Serbian crimes committed against Kosovo Albanians, and intend to hand over the gathered evidence to The Hague Tribunal, Albanian media reported on Sunday. Albanian investigators have so far gathered evidence from 114 Kosovo refugees on killings, massacres, wounding, burning of houses and expulsions, for which they accuse the regime of the Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. The witnesses told distressing stories of massacres, mass graves and the burning of Albanian villages. The main Prosecutor's Office has distributed special forms throughout Albania, but mostly in Kukes and Tirana, in which the refugees will be able to describe evidence of the Serbian genocide in Kosovo. The women and children who lost their families in Kosovo massacres, and most of the Kosovo refugees in Albania are such women and children, are determined to find out the names of those who committed crimes and gave orders and they want them to be punished by The Hague Tribunal, Albanian Premier Pandeli Majko said. (hina) rml