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From: Branka Josilo-Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Marbles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FW: Bodies Found May Harm Milosovic
Date: Thu, May 31, 2001, 11:13 am
Please can someone confirm that 4000 albaninan bodies have been exhumed
since Yugoslav forces left Kosovo. This is definitely news to me.
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Subject: Bodies Found May Harm Milosovic
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Bodies Found May Harm Milosovic
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC
.c The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - Investigators increased the death count Wednesday
in a case they argue proves former President Slobodan Milosevic covered up
war crimes, saying a truck found dumped in a river during the Kosovo war
contained 86 bodies.
The police accusations - initially revealed last week - could pave the way
for Milosevic's extradition to the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, which has
indicted him for alleged Kosovo atrocities.
Milosevic has been jailed in Belgrade since April 1 on charges of corruption
and abuse of power.
Police last Friday said that a truck containing 50 bodies believed to be
those of ethnic Albanian civilians was found in the Danube River near the
Romanian border in April 1999, hundreds of miles outside Kosovo.
In detailing their accusations, police have said that in a March 1999
meeting, Milosevic ordered top police commanders ``to remove all evidence''
of civilian casualties in the crackdown in Kosovo and to remove corpses.
Those present at the meeting allegedly included former Serbian Interior
Minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic, who is also wanted by the U.N. tribunal.
The Serbian interior ministry controls the police of the larger Yugoslav
republic. Its head, Dusan Mihajlovic, said Wednesday investigators had
established that ``the truck contained 86 bodies and there are indications
that this is not a lone case.''
Mihajlovic was responding to the accusations in the parliament by a
right-wing pro-Milosevic leader, Vojislav Seselj, that the new pro-Western
Serbian authorities fabricated the truck case to facilitate Milosevic's
extradition to the Netherlands-based tribunal.
``The public will soon be informed, and so will all of you here, what
happened with the refrigerator truck, where it came from, where the bodies
came from, what happened with them later,'' Mihajlovic said.
The bodies of more than 4,000 ethnic Albanians have been exhumed in Kosovo
since Yugoslav troops were forced to leave the Serbian province following
1999 NATO airstrikes to punish Milosevic for the crackdown. More than 3,000
ethnic Albanians remain missing, and the police accusations against the
former president may lead to revelations about what happened to those
victims.
AP-NY-05-30-01 2147EDT
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