Batajnica mass graves

The Batajnica mass graves, are estimated to contain between 700[1] and a thousand[2] Albanian victims of ethnic cleansing, from the Kosovo War.

The mass graves are on the training grounds of a Serbian military unit, the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ).[3]

Dead bodies were brought to the site by trucks from Kosovo; most were incinerated before burial.[4] After the war, SAJ restricted investigators' access to the firing range, and continued live-firing exercises whilst forensic teams tried to investigate the massacre.[5]

Serb forces conducted mass killings in ethnic Albanian villages in 1998 and 1999, burying most of the victims close to the site of the killing. But when it became clear that Nato would intervene, the Milosevic government ordered the bodies to be dug up and moved elsewhere in Serbia and Serb-controlled Bosnia.

As well as killings of Kosovo Albanians, SAJ was also involved in "sanitation";[6] bodies were moved to mass graves in Serbia, in order to conceal the ethnic cleansing.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ic-mp.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/icmp-fsd-16-04-2-doc.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/10/kosovo-albanian-mass-grave-serbia
  3. ↑ http://www.b92.net/eng/news/crimes.php?yyyy=2007&mm=02&dd=25&nav_id=39816
  4. ↑ http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=325025
  5. ↑ http://www.academia.edu/831207/Fresh_scars_on_the_body_of_archaeology_excavating_mass-graves_at_Batajnica_Serbia
  6. ↑ "Kosovo Albanian mass grave found under car park in Serbia". The Guardian. 10 May 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2014.

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