Clinton killed thousands of civilians in Jugoslavia, and did so
with torturing and maiming shrapnel bombs.
Indict him.
wcm
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> So much for the revisionist position.
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> U.N. Says More Than 2000 Bodies Exhumed in Kosovo
>
> Updated 2:28 PM ET November 10, 1999
>
> By Evelyn Leopold
> UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. investigators have exhumed 2,108 corpses in
> Kosovo to date, but the true number of ethnic Albanian victims may be much
> higher, the chief U.N. prosecutor Carla del Ponte said on Wednesday.
> Giving the first concrete figures on deaths in Kosovo, Del Ponte told the
> 15-nation U.N. Security Council that U.N. forensic experts had examined only
> about a third of 529 grave sites that reportedly contained 4,256 bodies.
> A total of 11,334 deaths had been reported to her office to date but not
> verified yet, she said. Forensic teams from the U.N. Hague-based war crimes
> tribunal entered the Yugoslav province with peacekeeping troops five months
> ago.
> Thousands of ethnic Albanians were thought to have died during a Serb
> crackdown that ended in June when Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
> accepted a peace plan for Kosovo following weeks of NATO-led bombing.
> So far the tribunal has issued public indictments against Milosevic and four
> associates. But Del Ponte indicated she also was considering charges against
> the Kosovo Liberation Army, which fought Yugoslav troops for independence.
> Russia, an ally of Yugoslavia, immediately castigated the tribunal for
> indicting Milosevic, handing down sealed indictments and focusing its work
> solely on ethnic Albanians rather than crimes committed against Serbs.
> Del Ponte, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the
> Former Yugoslavia, cautioned that the figures she was giving for Kosovo did
> not necessarily reflect the number of actual victims because "we have
> discovered evidence of tampering with graves."
> "There were also a significant number of sites where the precise number of
> bodies cannot be counted. In these places steps were taken to hide the
> evidence. Many bodies have been burned," Del Ponte added.
> She stressed the importance of gathering remaining evidence before it became
> polluted but she said that her teams hoped to finish work next year.
> Del Ponte, a Swiss citizen, took over in mid-September as prosecutor for the
> Yugoslavia tribunal as well as a Tanzania-based tribunal investigating the
> 1994 genocide in Rwanda. She replaced Canadian Louise Arbour.
> She noted that international troops in Bosnia had arrested 14 accused but
> emphasized that suspects "at the highest levels" had not been apprehended, a
> reference to Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic.
> Del Ponte said that Croatia too had challenged the jurisdiction of the court
> and she was willing to talk to Zagreb about it. "But the fact they deny my
> jurisdiction makes it even hard to engage in discussions," she said.
> Most Security Council members praised the tribunal's work but Russian envoy
> Gennady Gatilov said detaining or arresting suspects should not be done
> without the consent of the state harboring the accused.
> He also objected to sealed indictments, which the tribunal has used in
> Bosnia to make sure suspects did not flee before arrest by NATO-led troops.
> Gatilov said that the tribunal should consider its actions in light of
> efforts to "move the peace process forward" both in the indictments of
> Milosevic and the sealed indictment of a Bosnian Serb general arrested in
> Vienna while attending an international seminar.
> And he said the court also needed to investigate atrocities against Serbians
> in Kosovo.
> Del Ponte denied this was the case. "I can assure you that my office deals
> with investigations where the perpetrators are not only Serbs. We have
> perpetrators that are Muslims and from the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army)."
> But she said the prosecutor had to close its offices in Belgrade and had
> little access to victims there.
> She said there were more than 40 fugitives at large "and I intend to use
> secret indictments," saying that few national governments publicized
> indictments.
>