Posted by Paul on June 16, 1999 at 16:13:03:
Proud of what???
Hey John B.where you hiding?
Read the following article and let us all
in on your "truth". As the reports and photos
of what we all knew all along comes out I look forward to your
explanations...excuses..."truths".
After the cowards go back to Serbia I vote for
a resumption of the bombing. Where is Gen. Patton
or Swarztkoff when you need them???
Wednesday June 16 4:21 PM ET
Kosovo Atrocity Reports Mount, Bodies In Wells
By Matt Spetalnick
PRISTINA (Reuters) - In village after village across Kosovo, evidence of systematic atrocities by Serb forces proliferated by the hour Wednesday with grisly discoveries of mass graves, charred human remains and mangled corpses dumped in wells.
Refugees returning to their homes in the Yugoslav province are seeing the macabre aftermath of a murderous rampage against the province's ethnic Albanian majority.
Foreign journalists venturing into remote areas -- in some cases before the arrival of advancing NATO troops -- are not only hearing accounts of massacres but are being shown gruesome sights that appear to back them up.
In the Drenica region near the provincial capital Pristina, bodies were found dumped in four wells in a village where residents said up to 100 ethnic Albanians were slaughtered by Serbs shortly before NATO peacekeepers entered Kosovo.
Reuters reporters saw corpses or limbs in three of the wells and a plastic sheet covering the bottom of the fourth well where residents said there were 10 bodies. They also saw five freshly dug pits where villagers said there were dozens of bodies.
Zeqir Rexhep, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) sub-commander for the mountainous region about 25 miles west of Pristina, said there were a further five freshly dug pits with bodies in them.
He said Serb forces stormed into the area, long known as a KLA separatist stronghold, two days after the peace agreement was signed last Wednesday and went on a killing spree.
``They killed everything that moved. They shot down women, children, old people and invalids in their homes,'' Rexhep said. ''They even shot dogs and cats.''
In the graveyard of one village in Drenica, returning refugees looked on in stunned silence at a mass grave containing an unknown number of decomposing bodies.
At another site, an old man poked through a pile of charred remains that appeared to contain bones and burned clothes. Not far away, two men were found shot dead in a ditch.
Some of the most horrific scenes of mass murder have been discovered by NATO peacekeeping troops fanning out in southern and central Kosovo on the heels of withdrawing Serb soldiers and police.
French troops Wednesday found human remains in the ruins of a house in the southeastern village of Vlastion where villagers said 13 people were killed.
The French Defense Ministry said the peacekeepers were told of the killings by residents of the town of Gnjilane. Vlastion is five miles southeast of the town.
``A French unit dispatched to the scene ascertained that bones identified as human could be seen under the ruins of the house,'' the ministry said.
The soldiers cordoned off the house and kept watch until U.S. troops could take over. The village is located in the U.S.-controlled sector that French troops were crossing on their way to their own sector in northern Kosovo.
After Serb forces pulled out Tuesday, Dutch NATO troops found the charred remains of about 20 people at a farm in Velika Krusa in southwestern Kosovo, officials said.
Journalists brought to the scene saw piles of rotting bones and burnt flesh amid blackened roofbeams and shingles of a small two-room house. A dog chewed the remains of a corpse in the yard.
The twisted spines, broken skulls and other human debris gave off a powerful stench even after the estimated three months since the massacre occurred.
Britain's Sky Television also reported it had been shown 82 mounds of freshly dug graves, some with limbs poking out, in a ravine north of Pristina.
At the U.N. war crimes tribunal at The Hague, Deputy Prosecutor Graham Blewitt said forensics teams were ready to fan out through Kosovo within 48 hours of getting the go-ahead from NATO peacekeepers.
But he said investigators had been prevented from entering the province more swiftly because of NATO's slowness in establishing a proper headquarters and providing logistical support.