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Milosevic Linked with Body-filled Truck NewsMax.com WiresBELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has been implicated in the case of the body-filled truck pulled from the Danube River two years ago, senior Serbian interior ministry and police officials said Friday. Deputy head of Serbia's criminal police department, Dragan Karleusa, said information found by police indicated that at a March 1999 meeting in Milosevic's office, Gen. Vlastimir Djordjevic brought up the "sanitation" in Kosovo in connection with the removal of civilian victims, which might become a subject of investigations by the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He said that on that occasion, Milosevic instructed Interior Minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic to take steps to remove all traces that might point to evidence that crimes had been committed in Kosovo. Karleusa said police had established that a refrigerator truck found in the Danube contained 50 bodies of ethnic Albanians from the Kosovo area and that the case was proclaimed a state secret by order of Milosevic. A diver testified on television and in other media that he helped to lift the truck from the water on April 6, 1999, two weeks after NATO launched its air campaign against Yugoslavia on March 24 to stop alleged repression of Kosovo Albanians by Yugoslav security forces. Friday's announcement marked the first time Milosevic has been linked by Serbian authorities and Yugoslavia with war crimes in Kosovo. Milosevic was arrested on April 1 on charges with abuse of power and embezzlement. Copyright 2001 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
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