Operation Kosovo: Kosovo Refugee Information System and Network (KRISYS-NET)

Links to Media about our project

Op-Ed piece by Dean Henry H. Perritt, Jr.

WGN's Milt Rosenberg Show on Kosovo (July 2, 1998),  with Dean Perritt
        [part I] [partII]

WGN's Milt Rosenberg show on Kosovo (March 30, 1999), with Dean Perritt
        [part 1] [part 2] [part 3]

Chicago Tribune's cybercast: Conflict in Kosovo,  with Assistant Dean Charles Rudnick
        [real audio]

Media Links in the United States

CNN
MSNBC
ABC News
N.Y. Times
Chicago Tribune
USIA KOSOVO INFO PAGE
YAHOO Full Coverage - Kosovo Issue
Reuters News on Kosovo
AFP News on Yugoslavia
RFE Report
Washington Post on Kosovo
AP Kosovo Page
BBC News: Special Report on Kosovo 
USIP Kosovo Links
Incore Kosovo Links
Kosovo - Focus on Human Rights
Press Now Kosovo Sources

Albanian Links

Albanian Daily News
Albanian Telegraphic Agency
AlbaNews

Kosovo Links

Radio 21 PrishtinaKoha Ditore (Daily Times)
Kosova Crisis Center
Kosova Information Center
Kosova Info Line (German)
Zeri Digest in English

Audio Files from National Public Radio
(The following news clips were produced by NPR)

March 23, 1999
NPR's David Welna profiles a Chicago neighborhood where Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians live and work side by side. (5:23)

March 23, 1999
Senate Debates Kosovo -- NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on Senate debate of President Clinton's Kosovo policy. Despite the threat of NATO air strikes, Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic refuses to sign a
peace agreement with Albanian Kosovars. Some senators are threatening to withhold funding for U.S. participation in military operations against Milosevic's forces unless Congress gives specific approval. (4:52)

February 19, 1999     
Negotiations -- Linda talks to Sarah Chayes about the peace plan the Western powers are proposing to end the civil war in Kosovo. With only 24 hours to go, Yugolsavian President Slobodan Milosevic continues to refuse to allow NATO ground forces in Kosovo as guarantors of the peace (3:30) (as broadcasted on national public radio).

February 18, 1999
Kosovo -- NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Washington that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has warned Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic: NATO will hit hard if Yugoslavia refuses to accept a peace settlement for Kosovo province and allow the deployment of foreign troops to enforce it. International mediators have given Yugoslav and Kosovo Albanian negotiators outside Paris until Saturday to agree to a settlement. To back up the threat of NATO airstrikes against the Serbs, the Pentagon has added 51 warplanes to its attack force in Europe, and the State Department is preparing for the possible evacuation of US embassies (3:00) (as broadcasted on national public radio).

February 17, 1999
Kosovo -- Sarah Chayes report from Rambouillet, France, that international mediators are disappointed with the progress made so far in the negotiations on a settlement to the Kosovo conflict. The international community has set a Saturday deadline for Serbian authorities and ethnic Albanian rebels to reach an accord. A U-S envoy, in a quick trip to Belgrade yesterday, apparently failed to persuade Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to drop his opposition to the deployment of NATO troops in Kosovo (3:30) (as broadcasted on national public radio).

February 11, 1999 (First Clip)
Kosovo Talks -- Sarah Chayes reports that NATO planners in Brussels have approved the broad outlines of a plan to send ground troops to help implement a political settlement in Serbia's Kosovo province. The NATO planners also agreed -- in principle -- to send an advance contingent of six thousand troops to neighboring Macedonia. Meanwhile, diplomats continue to thrash details of a political settlement with Serb and ethnic Albanian representatives at Rambouillet castle outside Paris (1:30) (as broadcasted on national public radio).

February 11, 1999 (Second Clip)
Racak Burial -- Jacky Rowland reports from the village of Racak on the funeral of 40 ethnic Albanians who were massacred by Serb police four weeks ago in Kosovo province. The victims were buried today after weeks of anguish by the families. Serb authorities had taken the bodies away, but finally agreed to return them to Racak for a funeral. William Walker, the American diplomat who heads the international monitoring force in Kosovo, spoke to the mourners (2:30) (as broadcasted on national public radio).

February 8, 1999
Kosovo -- Sarah Chayes reports from Rambouillet, outside Paris, on the second full day of talks between the warring parties in the Kosovo conflict. The delegations of Serbs and ethnic Albanians still have not met each other face to face. US, European Union, and Russian mediators are shuttling proposals back and forth (3:30) (as broadcasted on national public radio).

February 5, 1999
Kosovo--- International plans to bring Serbs and ethnic Albanians together in France on Saturday to hammer out a peace deal for Kosovo has run into problems. Serbia has blocked Albanian separatist guerrillas from leaving for Paris. The chief Serb negotiator for the Kosovo peace talks said that Belgrade would not hold discussions with delegates he said were "terrorists," a reference to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Sarah Chayes reports from Paris.(4:00)

February 3, 1999
Ground Troops -- NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Washington that Defense Secretary William Cohen told Congress today the United States could send a "relatively small" troop contingent to help NATO monitor a peace settlement in Kosovo. General Henry Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, put the number somewhere between two and four thousand. Secretary Cohen stressed that the United States will not commit ground troops to Kosovo unless the warring Serbs and ethnic Albanians agree to a viable political settlement (3:30) (as broadcasted on national public radio).

February 2, 1999 (First Clip)
Kosovo -- Leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army have agreed to participate in talks on a political settlement for Kosovo Province, but say they will bring their own proposals to the table. The Serbian side has not yet said whether it will take part in the talks, which are scheduled to open on Saturday in France. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on the thinking of both sides as they assess the political agreement drafted by the international community. According to a copy of the draft obtained by NPR; the Serbs must relinquish military control over Kosovo to an international peace force, and the Kosovar Albanians must put aside, at least for the moment, their desire for independence (4:30) (as broadcasted on national public radio).

February 2, 1999 (Second Clip)
Daniel Schorr -- NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that the United States can can only succeed in Kosovo with a multi-lateral intervention force (3:00) (as broadcasted on national public radio).