STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsweek Exclusive Evidence of a Serb Cover-Up of Killings in Kosovo Suggests Orders Came from Top Ranks, Including Milosevic Take Care of It,' Milosevic Says on Tape at a Meeting With His Deputy Interior Minister Who Warned Corpses Could Be Used as Evidence of War Crimes NEW YORK, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- A Newsweek investigation into evidence of a cover-up of Serb crimes in Kosovo indicates that orders came from the highest levels of the Serb leadership in Belgrade, including former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic. In fact, it appears that Milosevic himself gave the order for a cover-up campaign on March 26, the day of a slaughter in the village of Suva Reka in Kosovo. The details of the campaign to hide corpses include the first apparent evidence -- in the public domain, at least -- directly implicating Milosevic in the crimes committed under his command, Newsweek reports in the July 23 issue (on newsstands Monday, July 16). (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010714/HSSA008 ) The day of the massacre, Milosevic was warned by his Deputy Interior Minister, Lt. Gen. Vlastimir Djordjevic, that Yugoslav forces might soon have to surrender Kosovo, a Yugoslav source familiar with the meeting tells Chief Diplomatic Correspondent Roy Gutman and Correspondent-at-Large Rod Nordland [hmmmm....interesting, we are being asked to go on the word of Roy Gutman, who authored the "definitive book on the Bosnian genocide" and is the biggest CIA/journalistic hack in the Balkans!]. The minister cautioned that NATO forces would find corpses in many places -- including some victims between 2 days and 2 years old -- and these could be used as evidence of war crimes. "Take care of it," Milosevic told the group, according to Dusan Mihajlovic, Serbia's reformist Interior minister, who learned about the meeting from participants. That account was confirmed by a senior Western diplomat [wow! another credible source!!!!] in Belgrade, who told Newsweek that the order to remove evidence "was done from the very top." He also says a tape of the meeting was provided to The Hague [hmmm...like all other "tapes", "sattelite imagery" and "videos" that we are constantly assured exist but no one has EVER seen!!!!]. In one particularly gruesome incident, the Serbs killed 49 people from one extended family. According to Newsweek's investigation, shortly after NATO launched its Kosovo bombing campaign in March, 1999, the cover up began. Four gypsies, who were ordered by Serbs to participate in loading corpses from the Suva Reka massacre onto refrigeration trucks for later disposal, say they estimated loading 60 to 80 bodies into the truck that night and were then ordered to another town dump, where they loaded the remains of another 20 to 30 people into a second refrigeration truck. The bodies were supposed to have been disposed of. But in early April, a fisherman on the Danube spotted one of the two trucks floating in the river. Local police expected to find a load of meat, but instead discovered human body parts. After realizing the decomposing bodies were Kosovo Albanians, they called their superiors in Belgrade for instructions. According to Dragan Karleusa, chief investigator for the Serbian Interior Ministry, Deputy Interior Minister Djordjevic instructed police to treat the incident as a state secret and on his orders the 86 corpses were transported to a military base north of Belgrade, where they were placed on wooden beams, covered with tires, doused with gasoline and burned. The truck was blown up by at an elite police base in eastern Serbia. [Hmmm...so I guess no evidence of this will ever be produced, eh????????] Mass graves are now being unearthed in at least four locations around Serbia. One truckload appears to have been dumped in a NATO bomb crater on the main Belgrade-to-Athens highway. [Hmmmm...isn't that convenient?????????] The accounts of the killings come directly from survivors of the Suva Reka massacre and were first reported in June, 1999, in an award-winning Newsweek investigation, "Daddy, They're Killing Us," by Nordland. [Hmmmm....doesn't that sound just a little bit like a title of a jingoistic war-propaganda piece and not something that once upon a time was called objective reporting???????] (Read Newsweek news releases at http://www.Newsweek.MSNBC.com. Click "Pressroom.") MAKE YOUR OPINION COUNT - Click Here http://tbutton.prnewswire.com/prn/11690X42248888 SOURCE Newsweek CO: Newsweek ST: New York IN: PUB SU: 07/15/2001 12:18 EDT http://www.prnewswire.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
