Wednesday, April 7, 1999 Published at 20:59 GMT 21:59 UK
Picture gallery: Moving out the refugees
Macedonian authorities moved into a border encampment at Blace before dawn and cleared it by taking the Kosovo refugees away in a convoy of buses: BBC News Online brings you pictures.
Tens of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees had arrived at the makeshift Blace border camp.
Mixed emotions for refugees leaving the encampment on buses
It appears many of the 350 buses went towards Albania and Greece
The border camp was emptied of more than 30,000 refugees from Kosovo within hours leaving only rubbish
Soliders on patrol was the only life to be found
Many families have been split up in the chaos
The now closed border at Morina - devoid of chaotic crowds and queues of cars and tractors