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Kosovo forensic expert testifies about Racak crime in Milosevic trial

THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, April 7 (Hina) - A forensic expert from Pristina,Slavisa Dobricanin, on Thursday testified in the trial of formerYugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic before the Hague war crimestribunal in connection with the January 1999 killing of 40 Albaniancivilians in the Kosovo village of Racak.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, April 7 (Hina) - A forensic expert from Pristina, Slavisa Dobricanin, on Thursday testified in the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic before the Hague war crimes tribunal in connection with the January 1999 killing of 40 Albanian civilians in the Kosovo village of Racak.

In his capacity as director of the Pristina Institute of Forensic Medicine, Dobricanin took part in the examination of bodies found in Racak on 16 January 1999.

He said today that most of the victims had dark clothes as worn at the time by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army and that some of them wore identical military boots.

The witness said there had been no traces on the scene of the crime of bodies having been moved, which is in contrast to Serbia's official claims, as well as those of the accused, that the crime had been staged and that the victims were people killed in combat on various locations whose bodies had been placed in a ditch to make them seem like victims of a mass killing.

Milosevic is on trial for crimes against humanity in Kosovo and Croatia and genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The indictment referring to Kosovo describes the crime in Racak as a slaughter of unarmed civilians most of whom were killed by a shot to the back of the head. When it was discovered, the crime elicited strong international condemnation and is believed to have contributed to NATO's decision to launch air raids against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999.

Dobricanin resumes his testimony on Friday.

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