When two NATO generals tried to schedule a meeting to tell Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to stop the assaults, Yugoslav officials said Milosevic was too busy to see them.
NATO generals were not able to meet the Yugoslav president.
Founded as far back as the 6th century, the shrine is so sacred that, until the fresh wind of reforms instituted during the Meiji era beginning 1868, pregnant women and the seriously ill were carried to the mainland to ensure that no births or deaths would occur on the island.