Even more important, there is a political and military crisis in the Presevo Valley, adjoining the American sector in eastern Kosovo.

He said that Serbs are already congregating in majority Serbian villages or areas in eastern Kosovo.

I told people to arrest anyone who tries to go out of our sector into eastern Kosovo.

Russian peacekeeping troops shot and killed three armed Serbs today in a firefight in eastern Kosovo.

It is the smallest lake in eastern Kosovo being about the same size as an average mountain lake.

General Clark said that one of the three Serbs shot dead by Russian peacekeepers in eastern Kosovo last week was carrying a police identification card.

The Pentagon said the marines would patrol a section of eastern Kosovo assigned to the United States.

Some have been caught up in what Human Rights Watch describes as an "on going conflict" between armed Serbian civilians and rebel units in eastern Kosovo.

The largest number of Serbs are now found in the villages of eastern Kosovo, although their safety is coming more and more under threat.

"He was the president of our state," said Zymer Kastrati, 80, who traveled by bus with 10 members of his family from Pec in eastern Kosovo.