BELGRADE, May 25 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic personally ordered taking measures to eliminate all traces which would point to crimes in Kosovo, a senior Serb police official said on Friday.
BELGRADE, May 25 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic personally ordered taking measures to eliminate all
traces which would point to crimes in Kosovo, a senior Serb police
official said on Friday.#L#
Milosevic had issued an order to that effect to Serbia's former
interior minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic in March 1999 based on which
Kosovo's soil was "sanitised," the deputy head of Serbia's
department for combating organised crime, Dragan Karleusa, told
reporters in Belgrade.
He confirmed a refrigerator was taken out of the Danube near the
village of Kladovo at that time containing 50 bodies believed to
have come from Kosovo. The case was proclaimed a state secret and
hushed up. Karleusa said the refrigerator was destroyed and the
bodies "taken by an unknown person" aboard interior ministry trucks
on the Belgrade-Novi Sad road. All traces then disappear. The
bodies found were those of women in harem pants, naked older men,
and two children.
Karleusa said the interior ministry had information on similar
cases from other locations in Serbia. He did not disclose further
details.
Serb Interior Minister Dusan Mihajlovic told reporters Milosevic
"personally inspired organised crime in the country," and that his
closes associates "turned small criminal groups from the Belgrade
underground into organised crime."
Organised crime during Milosevic's rule was given logistic support
by individuals from the Serb interior ministry, customs, and other
state institutions.
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