LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR: Thousands of refugees are on the move in Macedonia, amid fears that the small Balkan nation is on the verge of a full-scale civil war. The roads leading from the embattled city of Tetovo to the Macedonian capital of Skopje are filled with packed cars and busses as folks try to flee the threatened violence. CNN's Chris Burns joins us from Skopje -- Chris.</s>CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Lou, President Boris Trajkovski tonight is urging Macedonians to remain calm, to try to give peace a chance. There were talks today between a NATO representative and the ethnic Albanian rebels, trying to persuade the rebels to pull back to a July 5 cease-fire line. The rebels had moved in advance in the last few days, and that has helped to spark this fighting and spark this rioting as well among the ethnic Macedonians who, thousands of them, have been driven from their homes around the Tetovo area. Some thousand or more are again protesting, so far peacefully, outside of the parliament today and tonight. But Skopje has been picking up the pieces today, ever since the fighting and the rioting last night, rioting that affected the U.S. Embassy, German Embassy, and the British Embassy, and they even attacked a McDonald's. So the ethnic Macedonians are very angry, especially after some of their politicians have said, including Prime Minister Georgievski, that NATO is a friend of the enemy. That has stirred up quite a bit of anger against the internationals here, and that, of course, raises concern among the KFOR troops here. Macedonia is very important as a link and a base point for the Kosovo KFOR protection force, and there are 5,000 American troops up there inside Kosovo -- Lou.</s>WATERS: Chris Burns, in the capital of Macedonia, Skopje. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Thousands on Move in Macedonia, Amid Fears of Civil War