Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:42:18 -0700 From: Michael Pugliese <debsian-AT-pacbell.net> Subject: AUT: Fw: Racak: a Crime, not a Hoax ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Walls" <dwalls-AT-igc.org> To: "Michael Pugliese" <debsian-AT-pacbell.net> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:27 AM Subject: Racak: a Crime, not a Hoax > > Contrary to Ed Herman, Martin Lee, and the Berliner Zeitung, the article of J. > Raino, K. Lalu, and A. Penttila in Forensic Science International of 15 > February 2001 does not represent the final report of the EU Forensic Expert > Team ? merely the report of the autopsies of January 1999 in Racak. The Team, > under the direction of Dr. Helena Ranta, made two more trips to Racak with a > full complement of forensic investigators, and their summarized conclusions are > in the report of the EU Forensic Expert Team in Kosovo, 1998-2000 to the > Council of the EU. > > The Team returned in November 1999 and March 2000 with photographers and > surveyors, and found bullets and bullet fragments in the gully in the positions > where the bodies were found. Bullets were subjected to DNA analysis, > confirming a connection to the victims. Cartridge cases were also found, > giving evidence of the number and types of weapons fired at the gully. > > This report was sealed and delivered to the ICTY in June 2000; the Executive > Summary was reduced to a limited classification in February 2001. I have > obtained a copy of the summary, and sent copies to Christopher Hitchens and Ian > Williams of The Nation. Although the summary sticks to the facts, and does not > attribute responsibility, it appears to confirm the Newsweek report of 24 April > 2000, which pointed out that the newly discovered evidence indicated a massacre > at the gully in which the victims were shot not at point-blank range, but at a > distance of at least a meter. > > > > --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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