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To: joan
Racak is still an unresolved question for me. There were 45 dead bodies, with lots of opportunity to fiddle with them by either side, and confirmation and conflicting stories of who they were and how they got there.

What I'd like to see is the coroner's forensic reports or testimony by the coroners themselves. It is fairly easy to identify whether a gunshot to the back of the head was the cause of death [ie evidence of a massacre], or made sometime after death [ie evidence of a staged massacre], parrafin tests on the hands of the dead to see if they recently fired weapons [ie soldiers / rebels vs. civilians], time of death, cause of death, etc.

I also seem to recall that forensic reports were prepared but have never been released. Anyone know if that's true, and if so, why haven't the reports been available? I'm willing and I believe most right thinking Freepers would accept proven facts. I'm just still wating for them.

Also, does anyone know when, or if, the ICTY plans to call the coroners? They are usually one of the first witnesses in a murder trial - they tend to establish the date, time and cause of death and rule out a lot of defenses.

BTW, the general's testimony does not appear to establish the required command responsibility link to find Milosevic ordered a 'massacre', identity of the perpetrators [If Serbian soldiers, then which ones, or was it paramilitaries, the mafia, jealous lovers, etc.] or accepted NATO's interpretation of a 'massacre' to justify punishment of the unidentified perpetrators.

7 posted on 04/15/2002 3:36:05 PM PDT by LA-Lawyer
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To: LA-Lawyer
Dr. Helena Ranta was the head of forensic team. She is forensic dentist, not forensic pathologist. She never visited the crime scene ( or, visited crime scene several motnths after the event for the first time). She did not possess the knowledge to evaluate the use of tests wether someone used firearms or not.

Besides, there is AP video footage of January 15 1999 that shows firefight between KLA and Serbian Police.

Ranta got hush money in the form of position of director, Helsinki Committefor Finland. (State Department stint)

She is disgrace for medical profession.

8 posted on 04/15/2002 8:58:51 PM PDT by DTA
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