Secrets of Kosovo graves

French pathologist testifies on deaths of more than 500 Kosovo Albanians listed in the indictment against six Serbian officials.

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Tuesday, 20.02.2007.

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Secrets of Kosovo graves

Forensic pathologist teams from UN member states also took part in the effort. Eric Baccard, a French forensic pathologist and ballistics expert, complied the exhumation and post mortem reports on victims from 14 grave sites.

The indictment against the Kosovo Six lists ten of these sites. Baccard's expert report and the transcript of his evidence given in May 2002 at the Slobodan Milošević trial were admitted into evidence today.

According to the indictment, more than 500 civilians were killed on ten locations analyzed in Baccard's report.

In Izbica alone, the French pathologists found 139 individual graves, but only 28 human remains and remnants of clothes were found because the graves had reportedly been tampered with in early May 1999, and the bodies moved elsewhere.

Baccard's report concludes that at least 127 persons were killed in Izbica on March 27, 1999. The indictment against the six Serbian officials charged with crimes in Kosovo repeats the allegation.

Baccard's report was based on the findings of the French pathologists and on the video tape showing the bodies of the victims. Among them were old men and persons with disabilities.

Apart from Izbica, the report lists the crimes in Mala Kruša, Vučitrn, Bela Crkva and Suva Reka.

More than 100 persons are said to have been killed in Mala Kruša , and about 200 in Suva Reka. There were women, children and old men among them. In most of the cases analyzed in the report, death was caused by gunshot wounds to the chest, back or head, injuries caused by explosives or blunt trauma.

The trial of Milan Milutinović, Nikola Šainović, Dragoljub Ojdanic, Nebojša Pavković, Vladimir Lazarević and Sreten Lukić continues this week. Patrick Ball, U.S. expert in demography and statistics, will give evidence on the effects of NATO air strikes and KLA military actions on the mass movements of population and the killings in Kosovo.

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