From amead at maine.rr.com Tue Jun 5 14:34:44 2001 From: amead at maine.rr.com (Alice Mead) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:34:44 -0400 Subject: [A-PAL] a-pal 6/05/01 Message-ID: > A-PAL STATEMENT JUNE 5, 2001 > >Unfortunately, as the second year anniversary of the transfer of >Albanian prisoners into Serbia, approaches, we must continue to >advocate for the immediate release of the remaining Albanians. We >need political pressure from European leaders to obtain their >freedom. One prisoner, Bedri Kukalaj, shot in the head at the >Dubrava massacre, has recently written from Belgrade Central Prison, >pleading for medical care. > >The Serb Supreme Court must release the remaining 135 Albanian >political prisoners to comply with UN law, the Helsinki Accords, the >Geneva Conventions, EU demands, the Yugoslav Constitution, UN 1244, >and the Council of Europe's pact of protection of human rights. >President Kostunica has not fulfilled his many promises to >internationals to release the prisoners kept as hostages, tortured >and deprived of liberty under the Milosevic regime. Now the Serbian >Supreme Court justices, must demonstrate their independence from the >brutal political agendas of Milosevic and release these 135 >prisoners or they will continue to violate international law and the >Yugoslav Constitution. > > -On June 29th, the FRY meeting of donors will be held in Brussels.- > >1.**We urge all countries who are co-signers of these laws to >withhold funding to the former Yugoslavia until the prisoners are >released.** > >2.** YUGOSLAVIA has now reentered the UN and OSCE. We urge those >organizations to develop real consequences for Serbia's failure to >release the Albanian prisoners in a timely fashion. Past experience >has shown that without immediate consequences, compliance will not >take place. > >3.** The Council of Europe now has an office in Belgrade and >Yugoslavia has indicated an interest in becoming a member. The >Council of Europe needs to make the release of prisoners a priority >with real consequences if their release continues to be delayed. > >4.**Embassy diplomats, MEP staff, US legislative staff, Human Rights >Watch, and Amnesty International need to take a much more public >role in visiting the remaining prisoners, observing their appeals, >and documenting on-going violations of basic humanitarian >rights-such as adequate food, freedom from harassment and torture, >adequate family visits,medical care, humanitarian releases (all of >which have been denied so far). Serb humanitarian cases are equally >neglected. > >5.**The justices of the Serbian Supreme Court, nearly all of whom >are holdovers from the Milosevic regime, need the closest level of >outside monitoring. For example, the lack of international outcry >over the recent Mazreku case and lack of demands for their release >are a disgrace. High-visiblity cases, such as the Gjakova 143 or Dr. >Flora Brovina, receive one level of attention. The Mazrekus, and >hundreds like them, go ignored. > >6. That OSCE appoint an independent investigation to report on the >ongoing situation of the Albanian prisoners, to document cooperation >and lack of regard for international norms and the Helsinki Accords. >To demand appropriate action by the Serb Supreme Court in its >"review" of cases. > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3520 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.alb-net.com/pipermail/a-pal/attachments/20010605/7db99838/attachment.bin From freenaithasani at yahoo.com Thu Jun 7 14:24:29 2001 From: freenaithasani at yahoo.com (freenaithasani at yahoo.com) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:24:29 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [A-PAL] Press-Release: Freedom for Nait Hasani, a political prisoner in Serbia Message-ID: <20010607182429.AD3558C40@alb-net.com> PRESS RELEASE: Freedom for Nait Hasani, a political prisoner in Serbia The Organization Council of released prisoners in Prishtina is announcing the opening of a new web-site dedicated to obtaining the release of Nait Hasani. The web-site features photographs, a biography, and links to sites set up to aid in obtaining the freedom of those Albanians still languishing in Serb prisons. http://www.alb-net.com/nait-hasani/ On June 10, 1999, the Serb Ministry of Justice illegally took over 2,000 Albanian political prisoners to prisons in Serbia. One of these prisoners is Nait Hasani. He is currently being held in Belgrade Central Prison, serving a 20-year term under appalling and inhumane conditions. Nait is 37 years old. He was brutally abducted by the Serb special police in 1997 and tried for terrorism after being severely tortured. During the NATO war, shrapnel from a NATO bomb at the Dubrava prison wounded him. He survived the massacre there only to be later taken back into Serbia, where he was repeatedly tortured. Despite repeated promises to EU leaders, US leaders, the UN Security Council, and other international organizations, the Serb regime continues to illegally detain 140 Albanian political prisoners two years after the end of the war in Kosova. Only through intense international pressure has the freedom of these prisoners been achieved. Visit the our web-site to find out how you can help. http://www.alb-net.com/nait-hasani/ From amead at maine.rr.com Thu Jun 14 08:58:00 2001 From: amead at maine.rr.com (Alice Mead) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:58:00 -0400 Subject: [A-PAL] a-pal newsletter 6/14/01 Message-ID: A-PAL (ALBANIAN PRISONER ADVOCACY) June 14, 2001 15 more Albanian political prisoners have been released. Approx. 120 are left. In the first six months of 2001, about 600 Albanians have been released. Yet none have sued for damages, reparations for false arrest, or torture through UN Committees, the OSCE, or EU international courts. Instead, only the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade has followed through on such charges on behalf of both Albanian and Serb prisoners, who suffered severe torture under the Milosevic regime. Were the released Albanians, and even those still in prison, to file such claims of abuse, it would greatly aid those others who remain wrongly imprisoned now. Justice may be the key to peace in the Balkans-but only Serb groups have helped advocate for this group of prisoners. Albanian human rights lawyers have done nothing. Their political leaders have done nothing. OSCE has failed to launch an investigation into the Albanian prisoner situation, despite its mandate to uphold the Helsinki Conventions. The UN Committee on Torture has not looked into the Dubrava massacre, the torture at Lipjan Prison, the Prishtina police station. And NATO failed to provide protection under the Geneva Conventions for this group of 2,000 people at the end of the NATO war. So the remaining prisoners will continue to be released, one or two at a time. In that way, no one will ever press for the truth about what they went through since their arbitrary and brutal arrests, over two years ago. And there will be no pressure for the West to develop a regional human rights policy. ********************************************** "Justice is the key to peace in the Balkans."-Holly Cartner, Human Rights Watch. "NATO and its member states have invested heavily in the Balkans," said Holly Cartner, executive director of Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia division. "But they have failed to insist on accountability and respect for human rights, bringing us to the brink of yet another Balkan conflict. This time it's Macedonia." Reminder: The FRY donor's conference is in Brussels on June 29th. Insist that before releasing the proposed new economic aid to former Yugoslavia, that the prisoners be released. ********************************************* Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:24:07 +0300 Reply-To: balkanhr-owner at yahoogroups.com Subject: [balkanhr] NATO: Unfinished Business in the Balkans (New York, June 13, 2001) As NATO leaders convened in Brussels today, Human Rights Watch pressed for steps to curb the mounting violence in Macedonia. Peacekeeping efforts in the Balkans, NATO expansion, and missile defense are expected to feature prominently at the NATO meeting, which marks the second stop on U.S. President George Bush's European tour. "NATO and its member states have invested heavily in the Balkans," said Holly Cartner, executive director of Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia division. "But they have failed to insist on accountability and respect for human rights, bringing us to the brink of yet another Balkan conflict. This time it's Macedonia." Human Rights Watch researchers recently returned from Macedonia where they documented serious human rights abuses by both sides. They reported that the rebel Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) had physically abused eight ethnic Serb civilians whom it arbitrarily detained in the Macedonian village of Matejce. Human Rights Watch also reported that Macedonian forces have begun separating out Albanian men fleeing the fighting, and have subjected some of them to severe abuse in detention. "Each of these incidents risks escalating the conflict," Cartner said. "NATO should send a clear and unequivocal message that such abuse must stop." Human Rights Watch also urged NATO member states to recommit to accountability for war crimes committed during all of the Balkan wars. "Justice is the key to peace in the Balkans. That's why the United Nations set up a war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,"said Cartner. "But there can be no justice until NATO arrests the war criminals who have run circles around its Bosnia mission for years, and the international community insists that all of the countries of the former Yugoslavia cooperate fully with the tribunal." Human Rights Watch called on the international community to postpone a June 29 aid conference for Yugoslavia until the new Belgrade government turns over more war criminals to the Hague Tribunal. _____________________________________________________ UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE FINDS YUGOSLAVIA VIOLATED CONVENTION Considering a communication with regard to the case of Milan Ristic submitted through the Humanitarian Law Center, the UN Committee against Torture on 11 May this year found FR Yugoslavia in violation of its obligations under the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Punishment. This was the first decision to be taken by an international human rights body on an application submitted by an individual who alleged that Yugoslav government agencies had violated the Convention. On behalf of Radivoje Ristic, the father of the late Milan Ristic, the Humanitarian Law Center turned to the Committee because of the failure of the police and judicial authorities in Yugoslavia to conduct a prompt, impartial and effective investigation into the death of his son, thereby violating Articles 12 and 13 of the Convention. Milan Ristic died a violent death on 13 February 1995 in Sabac, western Serbia. Suspecting the police of responsibility for their son's death, his parents requested a judicial investigation. The case wound its way through the system and ended with a Serbian Supreme Court decision of 18 March 1997 without anyone being found responsible for Ristic's death. On 11 May this year, the Committee Against Torture accepted the arguments set out in the communication and concluded that Yugoslavia had violated its obligations under Articles 12 and 13 of the Convention since its government agencies had failed to investigate promptly and effectively allegations of torture or severe police brutality. The Committee therefore urged Yugoslavia to provide the applicants with an appropriate remedy and to inform it, within 90 days, of the steps taken in response to the Committee's observations. In accordance with the Committee's decision, the Humanitarian Law Center calls on the competent Yugoslav government agencies to provide appropriate legal remedy to the parents of Milan Ristic, including a prompt, impartial and effective investigation, and to inform them about the steps taken in response to the Committee's observations. _______________________________________________ June 8, 2001 SERBIA SUED FOR FALSE ARREST OF THREE ETHNIC ALBANIANS As legal counsel for three Kosovo Albanians, Humanitarian Law Center attorneys have filed a civil action against Serbia seeking compensation for their false arrest and the torture they were subjected to. Pristina University students Idriz Cufaj, Asllan Zekaj and Erdogan Dautaj were arrested in their homes in May 1999. When the NATO intervention ended on 10 June, all three were transferred to prisons in Serbia and were not released from custody until early June last year. No proceedings were ever instituted against them. At the time of arrest, police presented them with 30-day detention orders, which were subsequently taken from them. While being unlawfully held, the three students were frequently beaten by police and prison guards. For some time, they received only one meal a day consisting of a cupful of tea and a quarter of a loaf of bread. The aim of the action, which was filed with the First Municipal Court in Belgrade, is not only to see justice done but also to bring out the truth about human rights violations in the past. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 8181 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.alb-net.com/pipermail/a-pal/attachments/20010614/f3d4d8e8/attachment.bin From amead at mail.maine.rr.com Wed Jun 20 09:49:17 2001 From: amead at mail.maine.rr.com (Alice Mead) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:49:17 -0400 Subject: [A-PAL] a-pal newsletter 6/20/01 Message-ID: A-PAL (ALBANIAN PRISONER ADVOCACY) JUNE 19, 2001 Two year anniversary passes--119 ALBANIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS REMAIN-----PLUS 100 CRIMINAL CASES STILL DETAINED IN SERBIA Once more, former released prisoners (now calling themselves released hostages and not prisoners) and family members in Kosova collected thousands of names on a petition to give to the UN Security Council leaders on their recent two day visit to Prishtina and Belgrade, again demanding the release of their loved ones. In response, For. Minister Goran Svilanovic stated to the UN delegation that the Serbs were ready to transfer the criminal cases to Kosova. But again, lack of detail prevents anyone from knowing how comprehensive this action will be, who will be included, who will be released, and why on earth the "judicial reviews" started last April will continue for the political prisoners, who have clearly committed no crimes. So again, this move appears to be a strategy of "divide and conquer," of half-measures that split the remaining prisoners into smaller and smaller groups simply to avoid releasing them. While UNMIK hurries to find sites for the 100 criminal prisoners, the remaining 119 Albanian political prisoners will sit in cells for longer undetermined periods. While Svilanovic claims they are "in the hands of the Serb justice system" the question is-what is Serb justice for Albanians? Here's an example: The torture these people sustained during their two years as hostages was extraordinary. One elderly man, a former political prisoner, Dylber Beka, age 68, was frequently severely tortured by a particular guard in Sremska Mitrovica, despite his weakened physical condition. He is now in the Prishtina Hospital with a large pelvic tumor and is very ill. He was released March 27, 2001. Several other prisoners have been hospitalized with tuberculosis, malnutrition, and many have major psychological trauma. Some political prisoners need reconstructive surgery. How is this justice? It is abuse, in blatant defiance of international norms. Meanwhile, Senators McConnell and Leahy of the U.S. Senate Foreign Appropriations Committee recommended to Secretary Powell that the US not participate in the upcoming June 29th donors conference until Milosevic is sent to The Hague and all the remaining prisoners are released. We urge EU leaders to withhold financial aid to the FRY until all the prisoners go home. ___________________________________________________ Belgrade Ready to Transfer Most Albanian Prisoners to Kosovo BELGRADE, Jun 19, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Belgrade is ready to transfer most of its ethnic Albanians prisoners to prisons in Kosovo, Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic said Monday. Svilanovic said 203 ethnic Albanians were still in prisons in Serbia proper, but not all were from the southern, UN-run Serbian province. "Sixty percent of them were sentenced for common crimes and are not in prison for terrorism or political reasons," said Svilanovic, a member of the reformist government that toppled former president Slobodan Milosevic and his hardline regime last year. "The government is ready to transfer them to Kosovo," he said, during a visit by Kosovo's UN administrator Hans Haekkerup and a UN Security Council delegation. Serb forces fighting ethnic Albanian guerrillas took around 2,000 ethnic Albanian prisoners with them when NATO bombed them out of Kosovo in June 1999, but has progressively released them, mostly since Milosevic's fall in October. Svilanovic also raised the issue of 42 Serbs who have been held in UN prisons in Kosovo for a year without trial. ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse) parts of Media Report - 1806.doc THE IMPRISONED AND THE MISSING- MAIN PRIORITIES The Council of Released Hostages (KOPL) gathered approximately 28,000 signatures for a petition, which seeks the immediate release of all Albanian prisoners and demands information on the 3,500 people who are still missing. The petition also had photographs of people who were in Dubrava prison before the war but are missing now, reported Z?ri on page two. KOPL handed the petition to Ambassador Chowdhury, leading the 15-member UN Security Council delegation to Kosovo. During a meeting with the delegation, the council's president Enver Dugolli requested the delegation be more committed and apply more pressure on Belgrade for the release of the prisoners and to solve the cases of the missing people. "We will take your requests to Belgrade when we go there on Monday. We will take up the talks with the Belgrade government, where Haekkerup left them" stated Chowdhury. A 47-year old woman from Molliq of Gjakova, Sabrie Rama, requested the delegation show more commitment and apply greater pressure on Belgrade to resolve the case of her missing husband, son, brother and several nieces and nephews. Sitting on the steps of the National Theatre and holding up the photos of her missing relatives, Sabrie criticized those who announced a protest two days ago. "During the protest that took place on Friday, KOPL and the television appealed to the Kosovars to gather in front of UNMIK headquarters to hold a protest. But other than several mothers from Gjakova and myself, no one came. It is a shame and I would appeal to everyone not to play games with the mothers of the imprisoned and the missing because we already are emotionally broken," said the Gjakovar mother with tears in her eyes. ___________________________________________ No reconciliation without the truth and justice Kosova Sot carried on page six an interview with Natasa Kandic Director of the Humanitarian Rights Fund. Albanians do not believe in Serb justice. In the prisons, there are being held the victims (Albanians) and the executors (Serbs). The protests of the Albanians for the release of the political prisoners are continuing today as well. Is there hope for their release soon? It is necessary to speak only of the existing facts. It is true that until now all the prisoners should have been released from the Serb prisons. After the amnesty law and various court decisions, there are still 105 prisoners who are waiting to be released and go home. After all that happened in Serbia, and especially after the admission of the mass graves, committed crimes and hiding the evidence, no political prisoner should be held in the prison. In a normal country, it is natural that after the end of the war and after the changes in the government, all war prisoners who were kept there because of the war and politically motivated acts be released. Among the prisoners none of them has been charged for the murder of a civilian, only for terrorism. This has to be done and this would be a sign of a good will, which would stimulate Albanians to see this government as something positive. I sincerely regret such unreasonable act, which keeps the families in continuous doubt since the others were released and they are still there. _________________________________________ From: The Office of the Imprisoned and Missing People in Gjakova/Kosova To: United Nations Security Council Delegation due to the visit to Kosova on the 15th , 16th and 17th of June 2001 APPEAL Honoured ladies and gentlemen! Firstly we express our deep regards toward your continual engagement in the peace establishment and the creation of the regional security, where the human rights and freedoms criteria is a fundament of building a civil society and now it has already become an obligation for all Balkans nations. As this engagement's result is also the release of over 1800 war hostages who were wrongfully and unfairly kept in serbian jails from 1998 until today. These June days when throughout Kosova we celebrate the second anniversary of the NATO troops entering Kosova; when with piety and high respect we evoke your engagement in protecting the civil population on one side, and the Kosova society on the other side, which is still suffering the war consequences caused during the genocide campaign by the Milosevic's regime. Even now, there are still hundreds of albanians being kept in serbian prisons and many family members who have no information about their dearest people are still waiting anxiously. Despite the fundamental changes that have happened in Kosova's society they haven't been back to society and normal life. Having the lack of information about their dearest these people haven't been able to surpass the "affliction period", as a necessary psychological process to be reactivated into life and society. In such an anxious state today in Kosova there are over 3300 families. After the war, being plunged in the sensitive desire to have their dearest people alive, most of them have been unwilling to go and see when any massive grave was found out by the Hague Tribunal experts. But, today, after two years, the signs of losing patience are manifested with the absolute readiness of the family members to face the massive graves, to give blood for analysis, etc. The war hostages that are being kept in the serbian prisons as well as the lack of information about the persons for the fate of whom nothing is known represent two crucial issues for the development of the democratic processes and the civil society in Kosova. Honoured ladies and gentlemen, expressing once again our consideration for your engagement and your activity in protecting the civil kosovar population during the NATO air-bombing campaign; your continual engagement toward the creation of the Kosova self-governing institutions; we also, demand a higher use of your authority on the Belgrade's government in order to have immediately and unconditionally all other albanian hostages that are being kept in serbian prisons released and have information about the persons for the fate of whom nothing is known. __________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 10209 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.alb-net.com/pipermail/a-pal/attachments/20010620/f4af7c88/attachment.bin From amead at mail.maine.rr.com Wed Jun 27 08:44:44 2001 From: amead at mail.maine.rr.com (Alice Mead) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 08:44:44 -0400 Subject: [A-PAL] newsletter 6/27/01 Message-ID: A-PAL (Albanian Prisoner Advocacy) June 26, 2001 FOREIGN MINISTER SVILANOVIC ANNOUNCES: ALL ALBANIAN PRISONERS WILL BE TRANSFERED TO KOSOVA. DAYS LATER, IN FACT, 61 ALBANIAN PRISONERS, INCLUDING DUBRAVA MASSACRE SURVIVORS FIND THEMSELVES TRANSFERED ELSEWHERE IN SERBIA! Imagine that you are one of these prisoners, still suffering from physical and psychological wounds dating back to May, 1999. It has been announced on television that you will be allowed to go home. Suddenly, a few days later, most prisoners in Belgrade Central Prison are taken back to Sremska Mitrovica prison in the north of Serbia, a day or two after your mother was beaten by Milosevic supporters at the prison gates. Mass graves in and around Belgrade are being exhumed,found to be full of the bodies of your peers. The perpetrator of the worst violence in Europe since Hitler is about to be extradited for crimes he committed against you. The foreign minister tells the UN Security Council that you will be sent home, where you will finally be safe and your waiting family can finally welcome you. Then it doesn't happen that way. You are returned to Sremska Mitrovica, where the supervisor of the Dubrava massacre works as a prison director, where torture of elderly Albanians was so severe that some died, where the ICRC rarely visits, where Serb nationalists and extremists have the upper hand. The official rhetoric is that you will be safer here. The truth is you would be safer in Kosova. Sremska Mitrovica is where Bekim Mazreku was kept in solitary confinement for five months. He was tortured within an inch of his life. In January ,2000, an Albanian elderly man, age 64 and a diabetic, died pleading for medicine. His family in Kosova heard nothing about it for three weeks. This is the prison that kept a 17 year old for two years, where he was raped by guards. This is the prison where it is policy that if you ask to see a doctor, guards beat you 80 times, even if you are 70. You are also beaten 80 times if you ask for salt. Why? The rhetoric is: Salt is a weapon that can be used against guards. This is the prison where the director strolls among the Albanian prisoners, saying if it weren't for the Hague, he would personally kill them all. Prisoners fear they will starve to death here. They often don't receive food packages. Imagine that you have been sentenced to 20 years for a crime without evidence, by an arrest and interrogation conducted under the Milosevic regime, and that you have just been sent back there. In Bekim Mazreku's case, you are sentenced for killing someone who committed suicide in 1981. The Albanian prisoners have been subjected to so many legal violations. So have their families. No matter. The donor's conference will proceed as scheduled. The Europeans place economic growth over the most basic rule of law for those "other" Europeans, the Albanians. Lest we forget, NATO fought a war for their civil rights. _______________________________________________________________________ KosovaLive 26 June 2001 http://kosovalive.com/english/latest.htm Albanians Prisoners Transferred from Belgrade to Prisons Elsewhere in Serbia June 26, 2001 PRISHTINA (KosovaLive) - Albanians that have been held in the Belgrade Central Prison have been transferred to the prisons of Nish and Sremska Mitrovica, representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Tuesday. According to Red Cross representative Arbena Kuriu, there are no longer any Albanians in Belgrade. "Nine Albanians have been transferred to the prison in Nish and 52 to the prison at Sremska Mitrovica," Kuriu told KosovaLive. The ICRC said it did not know why the prisoners were moved away from Belgrade. Ibrahim Makolli, an official at the Council for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms in Prishtina, said that the transfer of the Albanian prisoners was done for security reasons. "An outbreak of disorder is anticipated because of Milosevic and that is why the transfer has been done," Makolli told KosovaLive. In the meantime, the Council for Humanitarian Rights in Prishtina said that they did not have accurate information about the transfer. According to the data provided by the ICRC, 244 Albanians remain in Serbian prisons. (bb) _______________________________________________________________________ http://www.b92.net/archive/e/index.phtml?Y=2001&M=06&D=26 B92 NEWS Last update: Jun 26, 2001 20:25 CET Albanians transferred from Belgrade central prison? 19:35 PRISTINA, Tuesday - Albanian fellow-inmates of Slobodan Milosevic have allegedly been transferred from Belgrade central prison due to fears the jail could erupt into riots. A member of the Pristina Council for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms, Ibrahim Makolli, said that prison sources had told him that all Albanian prisoners had been transferred on security grounds. "It is thought that riots might break out because of Milosevic," he said. The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed that not a single Albanian was left in the jail. Arbena Kuriu said she did not know the reason for their transfer. (Kosovalive) _______________________________________________________________________ http://128.121.251.38/bnews/bnews.php?language=english Free Serbia Latest News 06/26/2001 14:43 GMT+2 -- Novi ekspres daily: 50 bodies uncovered in Belgrade suburb 50 bodies have been discovered to date in a mass grave in Belgrade suburb Batajnica, reports Novi ekspres daily. International court investigators are also involved in exhumations, Novi ekspres cites Hague Tribunal sources. The Tribunal has engaged forensic experts and anthropologists to cooperate with teams from the Belgrade Forensic Institute to identify victims though DNA analysis. "Hague Tribunal investigators seem to be satisfied with our work so far, which means the Forensic Institute will most probably cooperate with international investigators at other mass grave locations", reports Novi ekspres. _______________ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 6113 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.alb-net.com/pipermail/a-pal/attachments/20010627/4deaa395/attachment.bin