(27 Jun 1999) Eng/Albanian/Nat
British war crime investigators moved on to their second site on Sunday at Bela Crvka in Kosovo.
An estimated 60 bodies are buried in a mass grave in the town.
Bela Crvka is one of six sites listed in the International Tribunal indictment of Milosevic.
War crime investigators in Kosovo continued work on Sunday outside the town of Bela Crvka, inspecting the site of an alleged massacre.
The team, which includes a police officer from the United Kingdom, is making preliminary observations into reported Serb atrocities in Kosovo.
The victims of these killings were reportedly all from Bela Crvka.
Villagers say there could be as many as 60 of their townsfolk buried in the field.
The team of investigators, which is always accompanied by K-FOR troops, are gathering evidence and treating the grave as they would any crime scene.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We are satisfied that we have done this first site in a meticulous fashion, in the same way that we would do it in England. We will move on to the second site and we will carry out that investigation in the same way we would a site of crime in the United Kingdom. That way we get satisfaction that we have done what we were asked to do by the War Crimes Tribunal and that if what we have done helps bring people before the courts in the Hague then we will be satisfied that we have done a good job."
SUPER CAPTION:Chief Superintendent John Bunn
Chief Superintendent Bunn said his team had been prepared for a gruesome find in Bela Crvka.
One survivor of the massacre showed the wounds inflicted on him by the Serbs.
SOUNDBITE: (Albanian)
"I was lucky to escape from them. They are animals and the killing was the work of animals."
SUPER CAPTION: Fehim Popaj, massacre survivor
British officials estimate some 10-thousand ethnic Albanians were killed in atrocities.
On Friday, British soldiers in the NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo arrested a civil servant working for the Serbian Interior Ministry accused of involvement in 56 murders.
He was not identified but Britain's Sky T-V reported on Sunday that the man is an ethnic Albanian who worked with the Serbs.
NATO countries have already handed to the prosecutors at the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague evidence of Serb atrocities, some gathered from refugees.
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