New mass grave of Kosovo Albanians 'found in Serbia'

bbc.com ^ | May 10 2010 | BBC

[Berlin_Freeper]

A new mass grave thought to hold the bodies of about 250 Kosovo Albanians has been found in Serbia, the country's war crimes prosecutor has told the BBC.

It said the information had come from the EU police mission in Kosovo, Eulex, and Serbia was sending investigators.

The victims are believed to have been killed during the 1998-99 conflict, when Serbian forces fought ethnic Albanian rebels in Kosovo.

The grave is in the town of Raska, near the border with Kosovo.

[ZULU]

Why is it the media is concerned with dead Muslims but dead Christian Serbs are of no account??????

[DonaldC]

Maybe they will be concerned when the muslims come for them.

[stylin19a]

a mass grave is not evidence of a war crime.
it’s evidence of a burial.

[1rudeboy]

A mass grave is evidence that a war crime may have been committed.

[Incorrigible]

Ping

[Bokababe]

Thanks for the ping, Incorrigible.

What I do know is this: prior the NATO Bombing in 1999, the total dead on ALL sides in Kosovo was estimated at 2,500. And this article intimates that the possible "mass grave" dates to the 1998-1999 time frame when it was just Serbs and Albanians involved. If that's the case, then they just recovered 10% of the war dead from that period.

[Deb]

Exactly.

[Deb]

The BBC’s definition of a “war crime” is when the drug-running, Muslim, Marxist, terrorists of the KLA, lost a battle.

[1rudeboy]

I'm wondering if you would be so "understanding" of a mass grave found in, say, Iraq. In any case, the Serbs appear to have a handle on it:

The prosecutor, Vladimir Vukcevic, said the discovery was a sign that Serbia was committed to coming to terms with its history.

[Deb]

If you go thru life believing anything Reuters, the BBC or any European news outlet reports, you’re doomed. Anything that makes the Christian Serbs look like monsters and the terrorist KLA look like victims, is their version of good reporting.

[Joey Silvera]

So the corpses in the grave don’t exist because the BBC is reporting it?

[Deb]

Gee, what an absurdly inaccurate summation of my post.

No.

But if the "mass grave" turns out to be the dead buried as a result of a battle and not a Serbian "war crime", you'll never hear about it from the BBC1, BBC2, BBC America or Britain's Channel 4.

Try paying attention.

[1rudeboy]

Back up a minute. I'm the guy who said it may be evidence of a war crime. I agree that the media (UK or otherwise) will bury the story if these corpses turn out to be just some corpses out on holiday, but that reaction won't be any different from our own Soviet revanchists if it proves otherwise.

[Joey Silvera]

If they all turn out to have their hands bound behind their backs and bullets in the backs of their heads you’d claim they were “battle casualties” anyway. I’m no fan of Albanians or the BBC but the usual excuses from Serb apologists wear a little thin.