Expert says tribunal ignored evidence of Racak gunfight

Helsinki -- Monday – Finnish forensic expert Helena Ranta has accused the UN tribunal in The Hague of ignoring indications that heavy fighting had taken place in Racak between Serb forces and Kosovo Albanian guerrillas in January 1999, before international investigators claimed to have uncovered a massacre in the Kosovo village.

Ranta, who headed the European Union forensic team assigned to the village, told Berliner Zeitung she had received evidence at the time that several Serbs soldiers had also been killed.

The alleged massacre of 45 ethnic Albanians in Racak on January 15, 1999, outraged the international community. Just two months later, NATO launched a 78-day bombing campaign to drive Serb forces from Kosovo

The presence of KLA and a fight between Serb forces and the KLA early in the morning of January 15th at Racak is well known and not contested. The casualties from that engagement are not included as part of the Racak massacre. The massacre took place later. What is the point of the report you've posted? Dr. Ranta testified at the Hague last year. Here’s a very brief synopsis of Dr. Ranta’s conclusions:

In Court, she stated that the scene had not been staged. The victims were shot where their bodies were found. Their clothing was not changed after death and there were no indications of people being other than unarmed civilians. Her team compared bullets dug out of the ground beneath the bodies with those recovered from bodies and found they had identical markings.

You can read a report of her testimony here.

or if you really like reading, here is the transcript of her trial testimony.

And here’s a couple articles in which Dr. Ranta replies to all the, as she calls it, “nonsense” about Racak.

It will be enjoyable to watch the breathless way this is responded to by the anti-Serbo souls, like you and Hopelite.

The Road to Jenin

The Racak “massacre” hoax, and those whose honesty it places in doubt: Helena Ranta, NATO, the UN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, The Associated Press, and Human Rights Watch.

by Francisco Gil-White
[Posted on 16 April 2003]

"It has since turned out, through subsequent investigations by German, French and American correspondents and by human rights and peace groups... that the Racak massacre seems an enormous, albeit effective, hoax…" - The Toronto Sun, April 1, 2001.

Pay close attention to the claim in the quote above. It says that the Racak so-called massacre was instead an enormous hoax.

What does that mean? It means that there never was a massacre at Racak.

And why does this matter? Because the allegation of a massacre in the Kosovo town of Racak was NATO's excuse to start bombing Serbia on March 24, 1999.

Hence, if Racak was a hoax, we must ask: did NATO really have a reason to bomb Serbia? The answer is no. Despite years of trying, NATO has failed to produce even *one* body of an Albanian civilian murdered by Milosevic's forces. You read correctly: not one. [1]

In this piece http://www.tenc.net/gilwhite/ranta.htm
I document that Finnish pathologist Helena Ranta, sent to investigate the events at Racak, prevaricated out of both sides of her mouth in order to give NATO the appearance of justification so that it could start bombing Serbia.

But Ranta's significance does not stop there. Given that she helped NATO engineer a hoax at Racak in order to slander the Serbs, we must ask: why did *the UN* try to send Ranta to 'investigate' allegations that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) had supposedly perpetrated a massacre in Jenin? Do the powers that be have a preference for liars?

We shall begin with this point because if Ranta has been used more than once in the same duplicitous capacity, this suggests a pattern, and the pattern suggests a motivation by those who routinely send her.

"It has since turned out, through subsequent investigations by German, French and American correspondents and by human rights and peace groups... that the Racak massacre seems an enormous, albeit effective, hoax…" - The Toronto Sun, April 1, 2001.

Facts will never stop the anti-Serb bigots here (or anywhere else) from vomiting forth their hatred. Reality is not their friend.

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