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The forensic materials and evidence during scene investigations were recovered and documented by the members of the Team with the effective logistic assistance of the Finnish KFOR Battalion in Lipljan, Kosovo. In November 1999, metal detectors, which were adjusted to reach a depth of 30 cm, were employed and the total area of 170 m x 30-60 m was searched for metal objects. Several bullets and bullet fragments were found at a depth of 0 – 15 cm. The location of the victims, as verified by the OSCE on 16 January 1999, and the sites of recovery of bullets and bullet fragments coincide. Bullets were not found elsewhere in the gully or its vicinity. Moreover, cartridge cases were recovered on the surface of the ground, occasionally under leaves and silt. The majority of cartridge cases, recovered by the Team, were found under the bushes lining the gully. In some cases, other material of human origin was found in association with bullets. These remains were subjected to DNA extraction. Results did not contradict the assumption that the specific sample originated from one of the victims recovered on 16 January 1999. source

What would that prove?

The victims weren't dumped, wonders, they fell as they were shot.

Thanks for this source. I'll add it to my long list!

In some cases, other material of human origin was found in association with bullets.

This is vaguely worded. To me, "in association with" connotes "found in the the near vicinity of" like the bit of someone's hand Ranta spoke of finding there. To you, it seems to connote the material was found on the actual bullets.

The victims weren't dumped, wonders, they fell as they were shot.

Well, I don't particularly care whether they fell where they were shot or whether they were dumped there, but I would like to know which way it was. Neither thing would definitively prove who did it, however.

The "fell where they were shot" doesn't square with the Finnish ballistics analyses I cited in the link I gave above. And it doesn't seem to square with the witnesses who said they were walking up the hill when they ran into another group of police who fired at them, and some near the rear managed to escape. Neither matches up with Clinton's claim that they were "forced to kneel in the dirt" and then shot execution-style. The wounds don't match the Clinton scenario either.

You seem determined that it happened just as Bubba said. I want to know how it really happened.