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	Local Protests to NATO Attack (WTNH) _ Demonstrations and confrontations in Connecticut Thursday over the situation in Kosovo. People on both sides of the issue are making their feelings known. News Channel 8's Christina Hager reports. Protester: "We are really killing the people we're trying to save." Dozens protested in Hartford Thursday, taking a stand against NATO airstrikes in Kosovo. Carol Anne Boucher, Protester: "If we're against killing, we need to stop making weapons and lead by example." One passerby stopped to protest against the protest. John Stann: "You're supporting a butcher. This guy is a butcher. He should not be allowed to be on this Earth." Protester: "Violence is not going to solve the problem over there." Milaim Ukehayhaj: "Right now they burn the house, whole villages. Those poor people and children." Another man who calls the Yugoslavian president a butcher is Milaim Ukehayhaj, an ethnic Albanian. He works in a Stratford deli, sending his paycheck to his family in war-ravaged Kosovo. He hasn't been able to reach his parents in three months. He doesn't know if they're alive anymore. Last June Serbs killed his 37-year-old brother, and three cousins. Ukehayhaj: "They just come to the house, day, middle of night, and just take you out. They shoot you right in front. They just want to ethnic cleanse." His response to these war protesters.... Ukehayhaj: "A lot of people are worried because they have their sons over there and NATO and United States. God bless them because if not for them, this guy is a butcher. He keeps going every day, killing more and more innocent Albanian people in Kosovo." Ukehayhaj has been raising money at the deli to send to children in Kosovo for Easter. He's also trying to reach his family over there. Their phoneline has been cut, so he's hoping to find them on the internet. But again, he doesn't even know if his relatives are alive at this point. Today's News Page. WTNH Home Page. ©1999 WTNH/WTNH-DT A LIN station.

Local Protests to NATO Attack
(WTNH) _ Demonstrations and confrontations in Connecticut Thursday over the situation in Kosovo. People on both sides of the issue are making their feelings known.
News Channel 8's Christina Hager reports.

Protester: "We are really killing the people we're trying to save."

Dozens protested in Hartford Thursday, taking a stand against NATO airstrikes in Kosovo.

Carol Anne Boucher, Protester: "If we're against killing, we need to stop making weapons and lead by example."

Protesters debate One passerby stopped to protest against the protest.

John Stann: "You're supporting a butcher. This guy is a butcher. He should not be allowed to be on this Earth."
Protester: "Violence is not going to solve the problem over there."

Milaim Ukehayhaj: "Right now they burn the house, whole villages. Those poor people and children."

Another man who calls the Yugoslavian president a butcher is Milaim Ukehayhaj, an ethnic Albanian. He works in a Stratford deli, sending his paycheck to his family in war-ravaged Kosovo. He hasn't been able to reach his parents in three months. He doesn't know if they're alive anymore. Last June Serbs killed his 37-year-old brother, and three cousins.

Ukehayhaj: "They just come to the house, day, middle of night, and just take you out. They shoot you right in front. They just want to ethnic cleanse."

His response to these war protesters....

Ukehayhaj: "A lot of people are worried because they have their sons over there and NATO and United States. God bless them because if not for them, this guy is a butcher. He keeps going every day, killing more and more innocent Albanian people in Kosovo."

Ukehayhaj has been raising money at the deli to send to children in Kosovo for Easter. He's also trying to reach his family over there. Their phoneline has been cut, so he's hoping to find them on the internet. But again, he doesn't even know if his relatives are alive at this point.

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