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June 28, 1999
Web posted at: 5:48 a.m. EST (1048 GMT)

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PUSTO SELO, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- A helicopter carrying packages from the World Food Program offered this shattered region some relief Monday, as workers scoured the landscape for land mines and other dangers.

The aid workers fanned out, searching for the hungry in isolated villages, to provide their cargo of flour and humanitarian aid.

In Pusto Selo, the food will last the 1,300 villagers only a few days, as the agency adds them to the 40,000 people who have been helped so far.

As food aid flowed into the village, many who live there unburdened themselves of the horrific sights they have witnessed in past months.

An elderly man, Berhan Krasniliqi, told CNN's Nic Robertson he escaped death when he dove down before a machine gun was aimed at him. "Two bodies landed on me...then a bit later, they shot again and hit me."

Some villagers laid family snapshots of the dead out in the grass, to show international visitors.

Krasniliqi's friend Sahit of seeing all the dead bodies and thinking he, too, was about to die. Shot in the leg, he displayed the scar to journalists.

Some 106 men reportedly died that day, after they were rounded up by Serb forces who then opened fire. Villagers compiled a list of names of the dead. They were buried locally on April 3, but villagers said nearly three weeks later, Serbs returned and removed the bodies.

The litany of suspected war crimes in Kosovo keeps growing, NATO representatives say.

NATO peacekeepers inspected a mass grave in the area of Uca, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of Pec.

But both Serbs and ethnic Albanians accused each other of inflicting harm and damage.

Photographers clicked away as ethnic Albanians piled reportedly looted goods onto a cart, while a house burned in the background in the Serb village of Belo Polje, outside Pec.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said it will start its first organized return of refugees from camps in neighboring Macedonia and Albania. So far, nearly 400,000 of 860,000 ethnic Albanians have returned home on their own, many of them to find ruined homes and dead relatives.

U.S. Ambassador for War Crimes David Scheffer said of the findings, "Our worst assumptions are being borne true in Kosovo."

Three more Russian airplanes carrying peacekeepers and equipment flew from Moscow to Pristina early Monday.

Three NATO transports also were scheduled to land Monday. Afterwards, the Pristina airport is scheduled to be closed four days for repairs. It is expected to reopen, after being re-certified, on July 1.

An advance force of Russian peacekeepers arrived over the weekend, and the airport was reopened as the Russians joined a partnership with NATO troops trying to curb ongoing ethnic clashes.

Earlier, the airport had been closed during a tense standoff between the Russians and NATO troops.

London's Financial Times reported on Monday that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is expected to appoint a civil administrator for Kosovo by the end of the week.

The newspaper quoted Annan as saying the appointee would be a European and would be chosen from a list of up to 10 candidates.

"Since Europe is going to foot quite a lot of the bill (for Kosovo's reconstruction) that would be right," Annan told the paper in an interview.

He said he was looking for someone with "a political sense, a leader and manager who is also a good negotiator."

Official candidates include French Health Minister Bernard Kouchner and centrist British politician Paddy Ashdown. Outgoing European Commissioner Emma Bonino has pulled out of the race.

Diplomatic sources have said Annan may try to persuade Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, who helped negotiate the Kosovo peace settlement, to accept the role.

In a visit to Prizren, Czech President Vaclav Havel urged ethnic Albanians not to retaliate against Serbs, and to avoid further bloodshed.

Havel also praised the efforts of German peacekeepers.

It was the first visit from a NATO head of state since the alliance launched its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia on March 24.

Correspondents Nic Robertson, Jill Dougherty, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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