[ALBSA-Info] DPA - New massgrave in Kosova

[Agron Alibali]

Deutsche Presse-Agentur 

September 6, 2001, Friday, BC Cycle  
Exhumation begins from fifth mass grave in Serbia 

Belgrade 


Serbian authorities began exhuming bodies of suspected war crimes victims from a fifth mass grave in Serbia, the Belgrade radio B-92 reported Thursday. 

It said several human bones, clothing items and parts of the refrigerator trailer were dug from the location near the artificial lake Perucac, in western Serbia. 

According to media reports, the bodies in the grave were dumped into Lake Perucac in April 1999 - during the Kosovo war - in a truck which was driven into the deep water from a 70-metre cliff. The victims are presumed to have been Kosovo Albanians, brought in for secret burial from the province to hide the evidence of crimes. 

The trailer, with an estimated 60-70 corpses, sank after it was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, witnesses told the Belgrade daily Danas, but bodies began floating out through the hole in the trailer and were reburied where the river Derventa flows into the lake. 

More than 300 bodies were dug out from the four mass graves previously discovered in Serbia. 

Between 36 and 40 bodies were found in a grave in the Belgrade suburb of Batajnica and more than 214 in another grave at the same location, on which the work was still underway. 

Two nearby sites close to the eastern Serbian village Petrovo Selo contained a total of 75 bodies. 

Serbian Interior Minister Dusan Mihajlovic said in early July that available information indicated that around 800 victims of the Kosovo war were buried or reburied in Serbia. 

In June, Mihajlovic said that the apparent effort to hide crimes in Kosovo was linked to a meeting of the deposed Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic's cabinet in March 1999. 

The Serbian government extradited Milosevic to the United Nations war crimes tribunal in late June, which so far indicted him f or crimes against humanity committed by security forces in Kosovo. dpa bb ms 





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