File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0106, message 477


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.
>
>
>
>



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