Refugees in Albania reported that Yugoslav army units shelled the streets of Djakovica while paramilitary police armed with knives moved through neighbourhoods, expelling families in late April.

Witnesses told the BBC that between 100 and 200 men were rounded up and shot in killings separate to apparently random shootings in the street.

There are allegations of rape and Serb forces destroyed identity papers and public records.

An international monitor told the BBC's Panorama programme that the Djakovica atrocities were the "heart of darkness" in Belgrade's Kosovo policy. Nearby in the village of Meja, the United Nations says that there is "verified and confirmed" evidence of one of the worst massacres of the conflict.

The BBC's Jeremy Bowen in Meja: "It is impossible to comprehend what happened here"

It is believed that Serb units killed between 200 and 300 men as they systematically cleared villages between Djakovica and Junik on 27 April.

Survivors say Serb forces separated men aged between 18 and 65 from their families and shot them by the roadside. Many of the men were forcibly taken from convoys of refugees heading for the border. The BBC has visited one field and filmed evidence of the remains of at least 100 men, their bodies decomposing where they fell.

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