Kosovo Locations of Mass Graves-Reported or FoundBBC Report On Some Mass GravesUS State Department ReportOn November 10, 1999, ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte told the U.N. Security Council that her office had received reports of more than 11,000 killed in 529 reported mass grave and killing sites in Kosovo.
The Prosecutor said her office had exhumed 2,108 bodies from 195 of the 529 known mass graves. This would imply about 6,000 bodies in mass graves in Kosovo if the 334 mass graves not examined thus far contain the same average number of victims. To this total must be added three important categories of victims: (1) those buried in mass graves whose locations are unknown, (2) what the ICTY reports is a significant number of sites where the precise number of bodies cannot be counted, and (3) victims whose bodies were burned or destroyed by Serbian forces. Press accounts and eyewitness accounts provide credible details of a program of destruction of evidence by Serbian forces throughout Kosovo and even in Serbia proper.
The number of victims whose bodies have been burned or destroyed may never be known, but enough evidence has emerged to conclude that probably around 10,000 Kosovar Albanians were killed by Serbian forces.Reuters Report Puts Total At 4000 Dead On September 18"In Kosovo itself, the southern province with an ethnic Albanian majority now under international rule, investigators have recovered more than 4,000 bodies at more than 400 sites."
Those Lying Buggers At The UN UN forensic experts uncover evidence of torture at mass grave site in Kosovo.
AUGUST 4 -- After visiting a Kosovo mass grave where evidence of torture has been uncovered, Special Representative of the Secretary-General Dr. Bernard Kouchner said on Wednesday that international investigation of such sites was absolutely crucial for preventing violence in the future.
Speaking to the press after a visit to the site near Suvido, Mitrovica, Dr. Kouchner, who leads the UN Interim Administrative Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), stressed that the investigations carried out by international forensic experts and doctors was vital to the fight for human rights.
Documentation of the site - the largest now being reviewed by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) -- would help establish an indispensable historical record of the violent events in Kosovo, Dr. Kouchner said.
Dominique Lecomte, head of the ICTY team of investigators, who joined Dr. Kouchner at the press briefing, said that the probe showed evidence that many of the victims had been tortured.
During the last 10 days, the ICTY team has uncovered 72 graves. According to UNMIK, some 40 to 50 bodies have been exhumed and autopsied. Relatives in the area have already identified some of the victims.
Those Lying Buggers At NATO"Kosovo - facts and figures
(as of 27 November 2000)
Evidence of Mass Killings - Mass Graves:
According to Carla del Ponte, the ICTY chief prosecutor, 526 mass graves have been identified in Kosovo and more than 4,000 bodies have been exhumed. Investigators have found evidence that, in some cases, bodies were removed from mass grave sites before the arrival of international teams."
CNN Article By Human Rights Watch Deputy Director"Exhumations continued the following year, with 1,577 bodies and 258 incomplete remains discovered. In two years, the prosecutor concluded, the tribunal teams had found "almost 4,000 bodies or parts of bodies." She added that an accurate estimate of the dead was impossible "because of deliberate attempts to burn the bodies or to conceal them in other ways."
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