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Kola,
I do believe there was a misprint in the article
about "NATO's evidence".
At the bottom of the article there is the tagline
stating:
"The BBC is not responsible for the
content of external internet sites"
Isn't it properly:
"The BBC is not responsible for its content, being merely
a mouthpiece for the New Fascist Order"?
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would be laughable if it wasn't so pathetic and sad. After years of lies
this is all the NATOites can produce as "evidence" of Milosevic's war
guilt. Ridiculous. PS the 300 exumed Kosovo Albanians - an
inflated number in and of itself - didn't match the composition of the
"bodies discovered in the truck" b/c all those exhumed were KLA
fighters! There is no evidence that anything was in this truck, not even
the "photos" produced as evidence. Apparently this man took an entire
roll of film to photograph the dead but somehow forgot to take snapshots of
the corpses! One more point: of the 3,7500 missing by the Red Cross
1,300 have disapeared since NATO entered the province and are overwhelmingly
civilian non-Albanians, while the other 2,400 are mostly Albanian men of
military age...hmmmm.....]
Friday, 25 January, 2002, 16:43 GMT
Milosevic exposed
Mr Milosevic's trial on charges
relating to Kosovo is due to open on the 12 February 2002.
When Slobodan Milosevic waved
goodbye to Serbia on the 28 June 2001 his final words were "farewell brother
Serbs". It is ironic that Milosevic could be convicted on the evidence of his
own brother Serbs - those he thought he could trust - and not on the word of
an Albanian Kosovar. Nancy Durham reports.
Bosko Radojkovic, Serb murder
detective
One of the keys to the conviction of Milosevic could be
Bosko Radojkovic, a Serbian murder detective, who put himself in grave danger
by disobeying orders long before the former president fell. Radojkovic is the
paradigm beat cop, based in Kladovo in eastern Serbia. He visits scenes of
crimes and takes and develops his own photographs. Little did he realise his
negatives would provide damning evidence in the war crimes case against the
former president of Yugoslavia.
Discovering the bodies
On the 6 April 1999 Radojkovic was called in to check reports of a
very large white box in the Danube. It turned out to be a Mercedes freezer
truck.
Resurrecting the truck in the Danube
River
The local police diver
determined that no one was inside the cab, but he could see a rock had been
placed against the accelerator so this was no accident. Still it was no cause
for great alarm; the Danube is often used as a dumping ground. As the truck
was pulled to the riverbank Bosko took pictures, neatly framing each shot of
the truck the closer it got. The sequence is fascinating in its ordinariness:
tidy shots in black and white of a truck in water, coming closer.
The Kosovo connection
First you see only the white rectangle in water, half
submerged. Next you can also see the cab. By the third shot the name on the
driver's door is visible: Prizren, a city in Kosovo 240 kilometres (150 miles)
away, and the name of the business, Pik Progres, a slaughterhouse. When
Radojkovic made the Kosovo connection the event became more unusual for him,
because at the time Nato was at war with Serbia over its actions in Kosovo.
Very close now and the crack in one of the rear doors is quite noticeable.
Something can be seen hanging out the bottom of the doors.
Limbs hang out of the cracked door of
the truck
This is Radojkovic's last photograph. Straining to study
the picture it is difficult to decide whether the limb is an arm or a leg. It
looks like a leg, but the limb is so stretched, elongated, lean and limp that
sometimes you change your mind and decide it is an arm. There are no known
photographs to provide the full details of what was inside that truck, but
Radojkovic saw it all.
Hiding the bodies
He and a team
of local workers were ordered by senior police officials, acting on orders
from Belgrade, to clean up the mess. This meant unloading the bodies of 86
men, women and children from the truck.
Radojkovic's
assignments were to destroy the truck and his roll of negatives. The men
worked through the following two nights by torchlight, carrying bodies and
body parts. Radojkovic believes their injuries were caused by blows from tools
such as axes or hammers. The corpses were then taken on a three-hour ride to
Batanjica on the edge of Belgrade, where they were buried inside a high
security police compound.
Rediscovering the
evidence
Last summer 300 bodies of Kosovar Albanians were exhumed
at this site though they are not thought to include the Danube bodies. No
group matching their number, sex, and age has been found. In spring, when the
digging resumes investigators expect to unearth hundreds more.
I had to do it. It was war
Bosko Radojkovic
The night the dead were moved to Batanjica, Detective
Radojkovic accompanied the freezer truck to a handier police site near Kladovo
where, doing as he was told, he blew it up. Radojkovic grins with mild
embarrassment at what he did. He knows his job is to preserve evidence but he
says, "I had to do it. It was war." He kept the negatives in his desk drawer
for more than two years, until May 2001 when Serbian Ministry of Interior
officials paid him a visit. By then Slobodan Milosevic was in jail in Belgrade
and the new government had decided it was time to go public with the Danube
truck story. Radojkovic's pictures are the only tangible evidence that there
even was a truck full of bodies in the river, but he is modest, even critical
of the job he did. "I regret that I didn't take photographs of their faces. It
is especially the faces that stay in my memory."
Identifying the
dead
It is the faces of two children in particular who stick.
Radojkovic has pored over the Red Cross missing persons book for Kosovo to try
to identify them. In all there are 3,786 persons still missing as a result of
the conflict.
Searching the Red Cross missing
persons book for Kosovo
Radojkovic guesses that the
people in the truck had been dead for two weeks at the most. That knowledge,
and his own estimate of the children's ages has enabled him to point to
three-year old Emir Gashi and his eight year old sister Natyra, last seen
alive at their home in Trnje, near Suva Reka, in the heart of Kosovo on 25
March 1999. By Radojkovic's reckoning, there are no two children even close to
these ages missing around that time.
Families grieve
In
Trnje today, the Gashi family is trying to rebuild. The children's uncle,
Bekim Gashi, survived the slaughter which took place there on the day the
children were last seen.
Bekim Gashi, the uncle of the missing
children
He lost his niece and nephew, and his mother and four
sisters. He says that in early morning the villagers saw Serbian forces
approaching so the women, fearing their men would be targets, urged them to
run and hide. They did, and the women and children were killed. The following
day, Gashi says, Serbs took away 18 bodies, Emir and Natyra among them. Were
they following the same sort of clean up orders Radojkovic and his colleagues
would be called upon to do two weeks hence? The Gashi survivors are desperate
to get their bodies home for proper burial. As Bekim Gashi says: "At least
we'll have a place to mourn."
Exposed: Sunday 27th January 2002 at
1915 on BBC Two Reporter: Nancy Durham Producer: Guy Smith Deputy
Editor: Farah Durrani Editor: Fiona Murch
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