Serbs also killed in Racak “massacre” says investigator
Radio B92 - January 19, 2004

BELGRADE -- Monday – Five years after the alleged massacre in the Kosovo village of Racak which eventually led to the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Finnish pathologist Helena Ranta, who led forensic investigations into the case, has said for the first time that Serb security troops were also killed.

Ranta told B92 today that she had received information about the death of Serb troops in Racak in 1999.

“I was told there victims of both Serbian forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army murdered in Racak on Friday, January 15, 1999.  I didn’t see the list of Serb victims.  I was shown only a list of victims from the ranks of the Kosovo Liberation Army, she said.

Asked why, of 45 bodies transferred from Racak to a nearby mosque, only forty were eventually delivered to the Pristina Forensic Institute, Ranta said she had did not know.

She also questioned why photographs taken before the arrival of international monitors had not been published.  Instead, only those taken by OSCE monitors had appeared in public.

SOURCE: Radio B92 - 19:44 CET - January 19, 2004

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