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UNITED NATIONS, NOV 11: In an initial report on war crimes in Kosovo, international investigators say they have unearthed 2,108 bodies, most of them ethnic Albanian victims of Serbia’s campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Chief UN war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, briefing the Security Council yesterday on five months of digging at 195 grave sites across Kosovo, said she wants to complete collecting evidence from 334 other common graves by next year.
However, she cautioned that the bodies exhumed did not necessarily reflect the number of actual victims “because we have discovered evidence of tampering with graves.”
Nevertheless, her figures indicated that the number of dead would be below the more than 10,000 people NATO estimated were killed before its troops occupied the Serbian province in June following 78 days of bombing.
