Blace

By Saturday, the UNHCR estimated that there were 65,000 refugees gathered on the fields at Blace and in the no man's land between Macedonia and Kosovo, stripping wood from trees to make fires, building tents out of twigs and plastic bags, desperate for small mercies.

The Nightmare 2008

The final indignity, says Jakupi, came in the evening, when the Blace police seized 600 German marks as a "fine" for breaking Macedonian import laws -- then stole $1,400 more.

Beaten In Blace 2008

"I can't explain what the train was like," Kadri said later, sitting on a blanket in a muddy field in Blace, just over the border.

The Nightmare 2008

In the early days of the war, the government did little while refugees fainted and died in the mud and sewage at Blace, a field on the Kosovar-Macedonian border.

The Next Balkan Domino? 2008

Jakupi's Albanian license plates and Kosovar identity papers got him pulled over by Macedonian authorities at the Blace border crossing.

Beaten In Blace 2008

At 2: 30 in the afternoon last Wednesday, about 25 miles east of Blace, a group of those soldiers were on a back road near the Macedonian village of Mlado Nagoricane, talking about Sammy Sosa.

The Nightmare 2008

Among those projects underway are the Milot River bridge project in Albania, the Blace border crossing in Macedonia, the power grid upgrade project in Romania, the World Bank's regional Trade and Transport Facilitation program, and the regional Teaching of History project.

Fact Sheet On Working For Greater Stability In Se Europe ITY National Archives 2000

Accompanied by three able US government officials, our journey took us to the following camps: Blace, Cegrane and Stenkovec in Macedonia, and Shpitali and Hamallaj in Albania.

Report From Elie Wiesel On Visits With Kosovar Refugees ITY National Archives 1999

I feel very emotional now and I could not say everything I've seen in Kosovo and in Blace.

Remarks By The President In Roundtable With Refugees ITY National Archives 1999

I don't want to get into details about the anxiety and the horrible things we have seen -- all the killings, all the massacres, all the forced expulsions of people in Kosovo, of civilian population in Kosovo, as well as the burning and looting and destroying of everything that is Albanian, starting in Pristina last year and going all the way to the hills of Blace, which has been mentioned here.

Remarks By The President In Roundtable With Refugees ITY National Archives 1999