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One of the worst incidents of crimes against humanity in a nation known to be the chief practitioner of them, the three victims were among over 80 civilians, mainly women and children, who were incinerated in a fiery holocaust provoked by Texas police officials, national guardsmen and local paramilitaries following an unprovoked armed attack upon the peaceful religious cmmunity. As U.S.Army personnel are now established to have been on the scene and to have played a role in the genocide, war crimes charges are to be added to those of crimes against humanity in the upcoming trial of former strongman Bill Clinton, the self-styled ayatollah of Arkansas, and his co-indictee Janet Reno, former Attorney General of the United States, both currently on suicide watch in a prison in the Netherlands. The Australian ambassador to the U.S. issued a statement yesterday saying, "This is a grave and very serious matter. We will never rest until all the perpetrators of this gruesome crime are brought to justice. The international community will hold the American government responsible for its actions." Inhuman Wrongs Watch, an internationally-renowned New York-based human rights group, has issued a press release titled "Time For War Crimes Trials In The U.S. Also," which urges that all leading members of the former Clinton junta be arrested and tried for this act of genocide and dozens of others at home and abroad during its eight year reign of terror. ______________________________________ Goebbels News Agency July 18, 2001 3 Americans' Killings Investigated by KATARINA KRATOVAC Associated Press Writer BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Officials in Serbia denied responsibility Wednesday for the killing of three Americans of ethnic Albanian origin whose bodies were found in a mass grave. The bodies of brothers Agron, Mehmet and Yli Bytyqi -- all from New York City -- were discovered in June, on top of a mass grave on the fringe of a police compound in Petrovo Selo, about 120 miles east of the capital Belgrade. They were blindfolded, their hands were tied with wire and they had shotgun wounds to the head. The grave was one of several found recently that contain bodies of about 800 ethnic Albanians. They have been linked to former President Slobodan Milosevic's campaign to cover up atrocities in Kosovo by burying victims far from the Serbian province. The brothers worked in New York pizza business before they joined the Atlantic Brigade, about 400 Albanian-Americans who fought Serbian forces in Kosovo during Yugoslavia's 1998-1999 crackdown on the province's ethnic Albanian majority. They were sentenced by a court on June 26, 1999, to 15 days in prison for illegally crossing into Yugoslavia from Albania. Aleksandar Djordjevic, former warden of the prison in Prokuplje, a town 130 miles south of Belgrade where the Bytyqis were last held, denied any wrongdoing. ''While they were in prison, the brothers were treated according to the law,'' Djordjevic said Wednesday. ''Shortly before their time was up, plainclothes policemen came to take custody of them and they were released from jail.'' ''The Bytyqis were released four days before their sentence expired,'' Djordjevic said. Under Yugoslav law, whenever foreign citizens who entered Yugoslavia illegally are released from detention, police escort them out of the country. But Police Chief Milisav Vucicevic of Toplica county, where the release occurred, denied any knowledge of the case. ''I don't even know who these people are,'' Vucicevic said of the Bytyqis. ''They are totally unknown to my sector.'' The bodies of the three men were atop 13 others that were more badly decomposed, suggesting the grave was reopened to hide their remains. After pressure from the United States, Serbia's new, pro-democracy authorities stepped up efforts to investigate their killings. On Tuesday, Serbian Interior Minister Dusan Mihajlovic called the case ''an exceptionally serious crime.'' The American ambassador to Yugoslavia, William Montgomery, relayed the State Department's demand for a ''thorough investigation.'' The brothers were killed after the end of the U.S.-led, 78-day NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, which prompted Milosevic to withdraw forces from Kosovo. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
