Sir, - On Sunday the British Minister for Defence stated that he had received reports that Serbs were using ethnic Albanians as human shields in Kosovo. As a result, he said, NATO would escalate the bombing campaign against the Serbian military. This, he believes, is in the interests of the ethnic Albanians. How many more examples of barbarity are we to witness as a result of this deliberate escalation of the conflict before we are sickened by the belief that these Albanians have become pawns in a war of horrible brutality?
NATO seems to believe that war crimes can't be conducted from the air. But every cruise missile is a potential Omagh bomb, and we have had over 400 launched now. Yes, what the Serbs are doing is disgusting. But do we, as "Westerners", have to stoop to their level? - Yours, etc.,
Victor Lacken, Chur, Switzerland.