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ORAHOVAC -- Chief representative of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Orahovac, Astrid van Genderen Stort, is abusing her position by drawing lists with the names of those who want to leave the town and by organising convoys to other parts of Serbia and to Montenegro, according to town residents.
Stort is in this way directly helping ethnic Albanian terrorists to complete their ethnic cleansing campaign in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province, local radio enthusiasts quoted Friday the town residents as saying.
With the help of her associates, Stort is deceiving the public by stating that only the elderly and the ill decide to leave Orahovac, situated in the southwest of the province, and that about 500 Serbs still live in the town, downplaying the number of people leaving the area, the radio enthusiasts said.
Despite the fact that it is UNHCR's task to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and to assist displaced persons and the ill, the UNHCR office in Kosovo and Metohija only organises and escorts convoys with Serb refugees, without trying to persuade them to remain in the province.
Lists, made for each organised convoy, are thoroughly checked by the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR that has a tendency to arrest Serbs on the strength of charges made by anonimous ethnic Albanians.