“They seem now to have started rounding up refugees queuing to leave Kosovo and returning them by force.”
Clare Short
“To say you are interested in refugee returns at a time when we see house-burnings is simply not a meaningful statement.”
Chris Hill
“This is not a big movement of refugees, ... We're starting to organize now in a much more systematic way, bringing back people who need our assistance, who are maybe afraid to come back on their own, who can't afford to pay to come on their own, and we're taking them to the areas where KFOR has agreed there's a secure environment.”
Dennis McNamara
“The last thing we want is for mortar shells or artillery shells to start dropping in on these refugee camps.”
Ray Wilkinson
“The Yugoslav delegation presented a proposal that would not guarantee the safe return of all the (ethnic Albanian) refugees (and) the full withdrawal of Yugoslav forces,”
Michael Jackson
“The 21 Arab states that could easily have absorbed the original 650,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948 refused to do so, even though their combined land mass was 700 times greater than that possessed by Israel. By contrast, the Jewish population of the new state was only 600,000, yet Israel willingly absorbed some 820,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.”
Randall Price
“once a refugee, always a refugee.”
Elie Wiesel
