Thursday, April 1, 1999 Published at 14:19 GMT 15:19 UK
UK names Kosovo war criminals
President Milosevic and some of his senior officers are accused of war crimes
The UK Ministry of Defence is accusing President Milosevic and several senior Serbian army and police officers of war crimes in Kosovo.
During the briefing, Foreign Secretary Robin Cook warned Serbia's President Slobodan Milosevic that his army was running out of fuel and he was running out of time.
Major General John Drewienkiewicz, the former head of the OSCE's Kosovo verification mission, gave moving details of the refugee exodus from Kosovo.
Maj Gen Drewienkiewicz said thousands of Kosovar Albanians had fled their homes and he described one refugee column, seen heading towards the Macedonian border, as looking like a "scene from Schindler's List".
Among those he accused were:
Mr Moir said he was a conduit between the state and irregular militias who were believed to be carrying out the war crimes. He said he was a "shadowy" figure and there was no picture of him.
Among the forces under Mr Simatovic's control are believed to be the JSO, a 500-strong group recruited from the Serbian special forces.
Mr Moir said the JSO wore red berets and were frequently masked.
He said they worked in bands of 15-20 and were "by any standards well-trained, well-motivated and very, very dangerous".
He said the JSO worked "hand in glove" with the Serbian anti-terrorist squad, SHA, which is 400-strong.
Mr Cook said they were sharing all British intelligence information on the alleged war criminals with the judge in charge of the war crime tribunal in The Hague.
Mr Cook said it would be up the war crimes tribunal to decide whether he was legally responsible for atrocities in Kosovo.