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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Images of a Massacre | A Calculated Risk | Trepca | Bodies to Dust | "No One Would Dare Stop Us" | Milosevic's Hidden Hand?
Zahac's "Disappeared" | Blood Money | Revenge or Justice
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