Burning the Evidence | American RadioWorks

During the war in Kosovo in 1999, war-crimes investigators suspected that Serbian forces were hiding evidence of atrocities by removing bodies of murdered Albanians from graves and execution sites. But until now, no one could say precisely what happened to many of these bodies.

This is the story of a secret and grisly operation by Serbian security forces to destroy evidence of possible war crimes in an industrial furnace in northern Kosovo.

Top prize winner in radio of the 2001 Investigative Reporters and Editors Award.

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FOLLOW-UP LINKS

OCTOBER 2001 UPDATE
The Kosovo Cover-Up

American RadioWorks examines new evidence that Serbian forces removed, hid and burned the bodies of Albanians as part of a cover up personally ordered by Slobodan Milosevic.

SECTIONS
A Signal Date | The Investigator | "Civilians Were the Priority"
Code Name: Nicholas | Milosevic's Order

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Michael Montgomery - Correspondent, Producer
Stephen Smith - Producer, Managing Editor
Adriatik Kelmendi - Reporter
Jovo Martinovic - Reporter
Stephanie Curtis - Associate Producer

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