Net Closes on Alleged Suva Reka Killers

Balkan Investigative Reporting Network ^ | 9/30/05 | Balkan Insight

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There have been no children found in the graves

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16   Well, you will also hear evidence about the results of exhumation
17   sites in an area outside of Belgrade called Batajnica. One of those sites
18   was located outside the perimeter fence of the grounds housing the
19   anti-terrorist police referred to as the SAJ.
20   Between the 12th and the 26th of June of 2001, approximately 37
21   bodies were recovered from that site. In addition to recovering the
22   bodies of 13 men, the remains of 14 adult females, 9 children, and a 7- to
23   8-month-old fetus were found. You will recall that one of the women
24   murdered in the cafe was eight months pregnant.
25   What was even more startling was the fact that the identification

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1   documents found among the clothing of several of the victims revealed the
2   identification of at least seven people who had been victims of the Suva
3   Reka massacre which occurred on the 26th of March, 1999.

If you'd bothered to acquaint yourself with appendix K from Milosevic's indictment, you'd see that of the 44 named individuals killed by Serbian forces, 22 are women, and 13 are 13 years of age or younger (5 girls, 8 boys).

You're reduced to playing dumb and hoping nobody's better informed than you are.

Pathetic.

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If I've taken issue with media reports, it's usually because they're wrong - like Dragomir Andan's statements on a Bosnian connection to the Madrid bombings.

However, if you don't agree, feel free to cite specific examples.

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an AK round is an AK round, the same round and MM the KLA uses. Or, does it distinguish itself from the other terrorist groups nomenclature?

The proof is to determine the ownership of those rounds. Unfortunately, that is nearly impossible and you can't get prints off them either.

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War crimes suspects in custody | 14:41 October 26 | B92

BELGRADE -- Wednesday – Nine individuals suspected of war crimes perpetrated in Suva Reka have been taken into custody and are awaiting questioning by the War Crimes Sector of the Belgrade District Court.

War crimes court representative Bruno Vekaric said that among the nine suspects, six are current employees of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs. The war crimes investigation stems from the mass grave site uncovered in Batajnica in which the remains of murdered civilians from the Kosovo village of Suva Reka were found.

“The prosecutor’s office for war crimes, on October 3, requested permission to begin an investigation into nine individuals who are suspected of committing war crimes against civilians in Kosovo in March of 1999. These individuals were taken in to the investigative court and their period of confinement will soon be determined. The crimes in question revolve around events which took place in Suva Reka, where according to our information, 48 civilians were killed, fourteen of which were under the age of fifteen.” Vekaric said.

President of the Humanitarian Rights Fund, Natasa Kandic, expects that the Suva Reka case will open up new indictments related to other war crimes activities.

“The Suva Reka case is just one of many, and was very well organized and thought out by officials of the Suva Reka police station, whose goal it was to push a majority of the population out of the village and back towards the Albanian border.” Kandic said.

“According to information which the HRF has, during the NATO bombing, more than 25,000 people were forced out of the municipality of Suva Reka, about 300 people are still missing, and many of the bodies found in the mass graves in Batajnica have still not been identified. What I would like to see is an answer to why we are still working with police officers today that were direct participants in war crimes activities.” Kandic said.

And the beat goes on...