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FBI Aids in Kosovo War Crimes Probe
WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI investigators in Kosovo have started work on what
agency director Louis Freeh called ``one of the largest crime scenes in
history.''
Agents on Wednesday began examining burned and buried bodies in an effort to
support war crimes charges against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
A team of 59 scientists, crime scene experts and others will spend a week or
more at the sites of two alleged massacres in the town of Djakovica, Freeh
said.
The investigators will map and photograph the sites where at least 26 people
allegedly died. They are searching for evidence such as bullets or
blindfolds, and then trying to find out just how the victims died.
The evidence will go to the United Nations war crimes court prosecuting
Balkan atrocities. Prosecutors blame Milosevic and four top lieutenants for
forced deportations and massacres at Djakovica and elsewhere.
The FBI will try to match bodies to names of alleged victims in a lengthy
indictment issued last month against Milosevic and the other four officials
in the Serb-led Yugoslav government. The information could be used against
Milosevic if he is arrested and brought to trial.
Djakovica, in western Kosovo, was one of the places Serbs targeted with
particular fury, according to survivors, refugees and war crimes prosecutors.
Residents say Serb police bent on ridding Kosovo of ethnic Albanians set fire
to the ancient town's old quarter the night NATO began its airstrikes March
24.
Two nights later, Serb gunmen raided an ethnic Albanian house, separated men
from women and children and then killed six men, the war crimes indictment
said. The FBI and four investigators from the Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology plan to exhume those bodies.
In the early hours of April 2, Serb troops rounded up 20 people, crammed them
into a basement and opened fire, the indictment said. The troops then
allegedly lit the house and the corpses afire.
A list of the dead appended to the indictment includes a 2-year-old child and
a 70-year-old woman. Half the victims were children, age 10 or under.
Witnesses who fled Djakovica described a shooting gallery inside the house,
and the alleged massacre became one of the most notorious suspected war
crimes of the months-long Serb campaign of ethnic terror in Kosovo.
Identifying the dead and determining how they died may be difficult, not only
because the bodies were burned but also because Serbs may have tampered with
the site later, Freeh said Wednesday at a news conference.
An undertaker has told NATO authorities he kept a careful accounting of the
bodies Serb troops ordered him to bury in Djakovica's town cemetery.
The FBI plans to use that list, as well as the accounts of witnesses and
refugees now returning to Kosovo, officials said.
After the initial field work, advanced DNA, ballistics or other testing would
be done at the FBI's central laboratory in Washington, said the lab's
director, Donald Kerr. The bodies will remain in Kosovo, officials said.
The operation is similar to work the FBI did to investigate war crimes in
Bosnia and in Rwanda earlier this decade, Freeh said.
British investigators from Scotland Yard began work earlier this week at
another alleged massacre site in Kosovo. The Netherlands, France, Canada,
Norway and Sweden are also sending forensic teams.
NATO bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days to try push more than 40,000 Serb troops
from Kosovo and stop the killing and harassment of the majority Muslim ethnic
Albanian population. Milosevic agreed to a peace pact earlier this month, and
the last of his troops left the province last weekend.
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