wow...it looks like those mass graves can contain Serb bodies too...despite Nato's efforts to make them Albanian<g>
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A new mass grave with 50 bodies
of murdered Serbs has been discovered near Gnjilane, the Yugoslav state-
run news agency Tanjug reported.
Tanjug said today that an unnamed police officer told a gathering of
Serbs in Gnjilane late on Thursday about the grave but did not specify
where the bodies were found.
He was reported by Tanjug to have promised the relatives of kidnapped
and missing Serbs that a comprehensive investigation and the
identification of bodies would be carried out shortly.
Meanwhile, Zivorad Igic, head of a leading Serbian political party,
said the recent discovery some 15 murdered Serbs at Ugljare was evidence
international peacekeepers' indifference to the security concerns of
Serbs.
In a television interview Igic said, ''Albanian separatists and
terrorists from Kosovo and their bandit compatriots from Albania have
committed so many crimes against Serbs, Montenegrins and other citizens.
'' He called for the return of Serbian security forces in Kosovo to
protect the remaining Serbs.
In Pristina, several thousand Albanians protested on the streets
today demanding the release of Kosovo Albanians jailed in Serbia. The U.
N. civilian mission chief, Bernard Kouchner, and Kosovar Albanian leader
Hashim Thaci spoke at the protest. Albanian sources say some 7,000
Kosovar Albanians were missing since NATO began its bombing campaign.
Many are believed to be in held in Serbian prisons.
In Belgrade, Yugoslav Justice Minister Petar Jojic, a member of the
extreme nationalist Radical Party, has called for the replacement of
Kouchner for acting outside his authority.
Jojic also said that the worst security situation in the world had
prevailed in Kosovo since international forces arrived.
''What has been created is chaos and bewailing and no law, and order
has been established. Our army and police would establish this state of
affairs in five days and ensure normal conditions of life and enjoyment
of equal rights for all citizens,'' Jojic said.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Yugoslav Foreign Minister
Zivadin Jovanovic is accusing U.S. KFOR forces of trying to cover up the
discovery of a mass grave containing the bodies of ethnic Serbs in
Kosovo and demanded an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council.
Jovanovic said in letters to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and
the Security Council Wednesday that U.S. peacekeepers had tried to
conceal the mass grave found at the village of Ugljare as long ago as
July 24.
He claimed they did so in order to avoid the reaction of
international public opinion that ''this crime against humanity'' might
provoke as it took place only a day after the massacre of 14 Serb
farmers at Staro Gradsko. The letter was released by the Yugoslav
foreign ministry and published Thursday by Belgrade media.
A statement issued later today by the NATO press office in Pristina
said a U.S. patrol found the gravesite July 24 and the discovery was
reported the next day to the International Crime Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia, which conducted an investigation Aug. 8-11.
A United Nations police spokesman in Gnjilane was reported by
Yugoslav state-run media as saying that 13 bodies of Serbs had been laid
out in a chapel in the town but he did not say where the bodies had been
found.
The media said the bodies had been brought from Ugljare, six miles
east of Gnjilane, and that four bodies had been identified.
KFOR spokesman in Pristina, Maj. Roland Lavoie, told Belgrade Radio
B2-92 that war crimes tribunal investigators had examined the Ugljare
grave where 11 bodies had been dug up, four of which identified as those
of killed Serbs. The spokesman also said the investigators would
establish the identities of the other bodies, the circumstances of their
death and whether there were more bodies in the grave.
Serbian Orthodox Church sources in Kosovo are reported by Radio B2-92
today to have said two ethnic Serbs and three Gypsies had been killed in
the western town of Prizren and that 12 Gypsies and two Serbs, both from
Tetovo in [FYR] Macedonia, had been kidnapped in the village of Ljutoglav
since Tuesday.
News agency Beta quoted church sources as saying about 10 Albanians,
armed with automatic weapons and hand-held rocket launchers, attacked
and beat four ethnic Serb shepherds at the village of Pasjane, near
Gnjilane.
Some Russian KFOR peacekeepers who came to the shepherds' rescue were
fired on by the Albanians and withdrew to seek help from American KFOR
forces after an explosion believed to have been caused by a missile.
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