BELGRADE, June 4 (Hina) - The Yugoslav Army Main Staff (GS VJ) on Monday resolutely dismissed claims about the involvement of the Yugoslav Army leadership or any army member in covering up war crimes committed against Kosovo Albanians
whose bodies were discovered buried at a location in the Belgrade area. "We claim that the VJ does not have any data on the 'refrigerator lorry' case. GS VJ demands that the Serbian Interior Ministry urgently submit evidence on the involvement of VJ members in this scandal," reads a statement issued by GS VJ. The "refrigerator lorry" scandal erupted a month ago when a diver who participated in the recovery of a refrigerator lorry from the Danube River near the town of Kladovo claimed the lorry contained the bodies of dead women, children and elderly people. The lorry was transferred from Pec in Kosovo under the cover of darkness and destroyed with explosive, while the bodies it
BELGRADE, June 4 (Hina) - The Yugoslav Army Main Staff (GS VJ) on
Monday resolutely dismissed claims about the involvement of the
Yugoslav Army leadership or any army member in covering up war
crimes committed against Kosovo Albanians whose bodies were
discovered buried at a location in the Belgrade area.
"We claim that the VJ does not have any data on the 'refrigerator
lorry' case. GS VJ demands that the Serbian Interior Ministry
urgently submit evidence on the involvement of VJ members in this
scandal," reads a statement issued by GS VJ.
The "refrigerator lorry" scandal erupted a month ago when a diver
who participated in the recovery of a refrigerator lorry from the
Danube River near the town of Kladovo claimed the lorry contained
the bodies of dead women, children and elderly people. The lorry was
transferred from Pec in Kosovo under the cover of darkness and
destroyed with explosive, while the bodies it contained were taken
to an unknown location somewhere between Belgrade and Novi Sad. The
operation was carried out as a "top state secret" in early April
1999, at the beginning of NATO raids.
The Belgrade-based radio station B-92 on Sunday cited an anonymous
source in the Serbian Interior Ministry as saying top army
officials participated in the operation together with the former
state leadership and police officials. The B-92 source said the
bodies of 83 persons and three heads without corpses had been found
at a location in the Belgrade area.
A Belgrade court issued an official order on an exhumation and it is
believed the exhumation started last Saturday.
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