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29 June, 2001, 23:05 GMT 00:05 UK
New mass grave finds in Serbia
Other mass graves have been blamed on Milosevic
Seventy-four men have been found in two mass graves in a village in
eastern Serbia, the independent Belgrade-based news agency Beta reported.
The revelations in Petrovo Selo, near the town of Kladovo, came a day
after investigators exhumed at least 36 bodies - including those of
children - from a mass grave near the capital, Belgrade.
Beta quoted a local judge, who announced Friday's find, as saying that
some of the bodies had wounds almost certainly caused by firearms and some
contained bullets.
Judge Milorad Momcilovic did not indicate how old the graves were, or if
anything was known about the men's identities. He said exhumation work was
continuing and that more bodies may be found.
The bodies revealed on Thursday were thought to be those of Kosovo
Albanians removed from Kosovo as part of a cover-up allegedly ordered by
former President Slobodan Milosevic during his military campaign in 1999.
The revelations are believed to have swayed public opinion in favour of
the extradition of Mr Milosevic to The Hague.
Exhumation continues
The mass graves in Petrovo Selo were first discovered in early June, AFP
news agency said.
It quoted investigators as saying the bodies had probably been brought
over from Kosovo sometime during the 1999 Nato air war on Yugoslavia.
In May the Serbian Interior Ministry revealed it had evidence that Mr
Milosevic had ordered the removal of evidence which would indicate
atrocities against civilians.
"Milosevic ordered former Interior Minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic to take
measures in order to eliminate all the traces which could lead to any
evidence of crimes committed," said Dragan Karleusa, a top official at the
ministry.
Shocking revelations
Mr Stojiljkovic has also been indicted by the tribunal.
There have been a series of gruesome revelations in the Yugoslav media
over recent weeks about mass graves within Serbia's own boundaries.
One lorry driver told Vreme magazine last week of 10 journeys he made from
eastern Kosovo into Serbia - on one of which he found his lorry stacked to
the ceiling with corpses.
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