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War In The Balkans: Quotes

Tuesday 30 March 1999 00:02 BST
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"Serbian paramilitaries are killing everybody who refuses to leave. Pec is now ethnically cleansed."

Adam Basha, Kosovar

"Nato's aggression could lead to a new Vietnam, now in Europe."

Igor Sergeyev,

Russian defence minister

"In peacetime if you get it wrong, you get a hard time. Here, if you get it wrong, you die."

British Harrier pilot

"It is not going to be quick and easy. This is not Saddam's conscript army in the desert."

George Robertson

"Tell Nato, Pec is burning, and ask them where are the ground troops?"

Nejmije Kelmendi, refugee

"For every slaughter of the innocents, Milosevic should be made to pay a higher and higher price."

Tony Blair

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