Kosovo Revisited

[Ivo Skoric]

Despite the claims made by international community about the
'genocide' on Kosovo - claims that were used to justify the bombing
of Yugoslavia - once Kosovo was taken under the control of
international troops, almost no mass graves were found, putting that
justification in question. But what if massacres really ocurred, and
bodies were carried and burried in Serbia thereafter?
ivo
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KOSOVA ACTION NETWORK
January 1, 2005
INTERNATIONAL ACTION CAMPAIGN FOR RETURN OF MISSING

"WE ARE ALL MISSING THEM"

SERB OFFICIALS ADMIT INVOLVEMENT


INTL. KAN Statement:

Another 44 bodies were returned from the morgue in Belgrade to the
Rahovec morgue in Kosova (full article below), however the issue is
still a long way from being resolved. Hundreds of bodies remain,
inexplicably, in the hands of the Serb police authorities. All bodies
should be returned without delay. As they were in East Timor, Rwanda,
and Bosnia, high level UN leadership fails to represent and implement
the most basic human rights of people in which they have temporary
stewardship over. This failure to demand justice and an end to the
cover-up of the war crimes involved in the transport of bodies from
Kosovo to Serbia in April, 1999, is the result of regional and
international passivity and cowardice.

Now, in 2005, the time has come to demand a Truth Commission, since
neither the UN nor the government of Serbia nor the ICTY has fully
addressed the issue of investigation into the heinous crime of the
transport, burial, and alleged incineration of more than 1,000
Kosovar
Albanians. Local Serbs have been coerced into keeping terrible
secrets
for years. Lack of justice is a source of corruption and
destabilization on both sides of the border. RETURN THE KOSOVAR
BODIES
IMMEDIATELY!

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Balkan Briefs
Thursday December 30, 2004

Serb prosecutor admits massacre during Kosovo war

BELGRADE (AFP) - Some 800 ethnic Albanians exhumed from a mass grave
near Belgrade following the 1998-99 war in Kosovo were the victims of
mass executions, Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor said yesterday, in
the
first such admission from a Serb official. "In (the Belgrade suburb
of) Batajnica were found the remains of people who had been victims
of
mass executions in Kosovo," prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic was quoted
as
saying by Beta news agency. Vukcevic’s statement confirmed long-held
claims by non-governmental organizations as well as Kosovo Albanian
officials that ethnic Albanians were the victims of mass executions
during the conflict. "Following the exhumation and autopsy, it has
become clear that those people were not killed by bomb explosions,
but
their wounds showed that they had been executed," Vukcevic said. The
prosecutor said his office "will this year make public what happened
there."

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>From Humanitarian Law Center, Belgrade
December 28, 2004
Humanitarian Law Center

Research and Documentation
Nataša Kandic, the executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center

The cover-up of the war crimes committed in Kosovo in 1998 and during
the NATO bombardments was, above all, a police activity carried out
by
the most trustworthy men of the late of the head of Ministry of
Interior Affairs of Serbia, Vlajko Stojiljkovic, of the former
President of the Government of Serbia, Nikola Sainovic, of the one
time head of the Public Security, Vlastimir Ðordevic, and the former
head of the State Security, Rade Markovic. In the south of Serbia,
the
trustworthy person was Dragomir Tomic, a high official of the
Government and the Parliament of Serbia at the time of Slobodan
Miloševic, the owner of Simpo Company today, whose understanding and
support were essential for the organization and transport of the
corpses from Kosovo to the area of Vranje and Surdulica. In the
implementation of this "patriotic duty", from Kosovo via Bujanovac,
members of the Special Operations Unit [Red Berets], local heads and
chiefs of the State Security, and the director of the Mackatica
factory, its owner today, took part. In Surdulica, everybody knows
that, in the said factory, during NATO bombardment, corpses from
Kosovo were incinerated. (full report below)

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Parts of UNMIK Local Media Monitoring
28 December 2004

Body Remains of Kosovo Albanians Exhumed in Serbia to be Repatriated
in January

The human remains of 44 Albanians that have been exhumed in Serbia
will be handed over to members of their families on January 15. A
total of 836 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves in Serbia
during 2001, out of which 398 have so far been handed over after the
process of identification. UNMIK took over 44 bodies from the Serbian
authorities in mid-December. The Forensic Medicine Institute in
Orahovac will hand over these bodies to their families. There are
still 3,192 people missing in Kosovo, and out of this number 2,460
are
Kosovo Albanians, 523 Kosovo Serbs and 203 are members of other
ethnicities.

http://www.unmikonline.org/press/2004/mon/dec/lmm281204.pdf

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LOCAL PRESSURE CONTINUES- PRISHTINA

KAN and family groups staged a demonstration in front of UNMIK
administration buildings posting photographs of missing persons

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