This article is totally worthless. But even if Stars & Stripes were
not a military propaganda rag, and the figures were correct, how does
anybody know who these bodies were? How does anybody know who killed
them? And how does anybody know that all of them ( if Albanians ) didn't
die in fire fights with the Yugoslav army?
In any case 5,000 dead bodies are a far cry from the 250,000 dead and
missing Albanians we used as an excuse to destroy a country which saved
US military personnel from the Germans in WWII.
This is stupid NWO propaganda.
Joshua2
> Richard Sampson wrote:
>
> http://www.pstripes.com/ed082700c.html
>
> Sunday, August 27, 2000
>
> Kosovo death toll
> climbs
> as KFOR finds more
> graves
>
> By Gregory Piatt
> Stars and Stripes
>
> PODUJEVO, Kosovo � Graves are still
> being unearthed by investigators, scientists
> and forensic experts sent to put the puzzle
> together of how many people were killed
> during last year�s ethnic cleansing of
> Kosovo.
>
> Perhaps thousands of corpses remain in
> graves scattered around the Yugoslav
> province. Still others were reportedly
> cremated in haste or carted back to Serbia
> before the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping
> troops entered Kosovo.
>
> War crimes investigators and forensic
> experts, who delicately strip inches of soil
> from these graves with backhoes and garden
> tools, may never find every body, but are
> putting together evidence for war crimes
> indictments.
>
> �It�s physically and emotionally
> demanding work,� said Billy Fulton, the
> crime scene coordinator for the British
> forensic team working on behalf of the
> tribunal here. �Quite often we work in view
> of the relatives.�
>
> Since forensic experts started last year,
> they have found nearly 3,000 bodies in mass
> graves, down wells and in shallow ponds.
>
> On Thursday, Fulton�s forensic team
> unearthed eight bodies in the Podujevo
> Cemetery as relatives watched. The seven
> Muslim men and one woman whose
> remains were exhumed allegedly were
> killed during last year�s ethnic cleansing
> campaign.
>
> Scientists are investigating the sites for the
> International Criminal Tribunal for the
> Former Yugoslavia. With only a few months
> before the ground freezes and their work
> halts until spring, they expect the body
> count to grow.
>
> This year, forensic teams have examined
> 200 grave sites, found 700 bodies and know
> of at least 400 more sites, said Paul Risley,
> spokesman for the tribunal�s prosecutor,
> Carla del Ponte.
>
> �Every week KFOR reports more grave
> sites,� Risley said in a telephone interview
> last week.
>
> Many of those found are ethnic Albanians,
> who allegedly were killed by the Yugoslav
> Army or Serbian paramilitaries. But the
> tribunal is also investigating grave sites
> where Serbs may have been killed by the
> Kosovo Liberation Army, the disbanded
> guerrilla group that fought against the Serbs
> for independence.
>
> So far, the tribunal has publicly indicted
> Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic,
> Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Nikola
> Sainovic, Yugoslav Interior Minister Vlajko
> Siejiljkovic, former Yugoslav Army chief of
> staff Ojdanic Dragoljub and Serb President
> Milan Milatinovic on war crimes charges for
> last year�s ethnic cleansing.
>
> As for the KLA, the tribunal is still
> investigating what part the guerrilla
> organization had in the deaths of Serbs. So
> far, no indictments have been issued. But
> del Ponte has said the tribunal�s
> investigation is focusing on the KLA�s top
> commanders.
>
> North Atlantic Treaty Organization
> Secretary-General Lord George Robertson
> said recently that when the indictments are
> completed, alliance troops will arrest
> wanted war criminals inside Kosovo.
>
> Graham Blewitt, deputy prosecutor at The
> Hague Tribunal, said recently he expects the
> final toll of confirmed killings to be between
> 4,000 and 5,000 bodies.
>
> NATO officials, notably former Supreme
> Allied Commander Europe Gen. Wesley K.
> Clark, put the figure of ethnic Albanians
> killed by the Serbs at 10,000 after NATO
> peacekeeping troops entered the Yugoslav
> province. During last year�s Yugoslav
> bombing campaign and the refugee crisis
> that ensued, U.S. Secretary of Defense
> William Cohen said the number could be as
> high as 100,000 dead.
>
> Since then, NATO has been accused of
> exaggerating the number of killings as part
> of a propaganda campaign to justify the 78
> days it bombed Yugoslavia.
>
> As for the fluctuating numbers during the
> bombing campaign, KFOR spokesman U.S.
> Army Maj. Scott Slaten said there was no
> way NATO knew what was going on in
> Kosovo during the bombing. Many people
> were reported missing and were found alive
> later, Slaten said.
>
> �We were bound and determined to keep
> the mass killings that happened in Bosnia
> [and Herzegovina] from happening in
> Kosovo,� Slaten said. �Whether the final
> number comes out to 3,000 or 7,000, there are
> still graves.�
>
> When the tribunal started its exhumations,
> Risley said, it put the final figure of those
> possibly dead at 11,000 because that was
> how many people are reported missing. But,
> he added, many bodies probably were
> burned or taken back into Serbia for
> disposal.
>
> �There will be no way to find all the
> people killed,� he said.
>
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