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BELGRADE, Aug 5 (Reuters) - A Yugoslav government minister alleged on Thursday that 14 Kosovo Serb farmers gunned down in a field last month were murdered by ethnic Albanians dressed in British military uniforms.
``They were KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) but wore British army uniforms and that's why the Serbs didn't react at all, didn't try to flee,'' Goran Matic, a minister without portfolio, told Reuters, citing local Serbs.
The killing of the farmers near the village of Gracko south of the Kosovo capital Pristina on July 23 was the worst single incident in the battered province since NATO peacekeepers deployed there nearly eight weeks ago.
Serbs said the bodies of the victims were mutilated by tractors driven over them after they had died.
Matic did not imply that British peacekeepers who control that sector of Kosovo had given the uniforms to the KLA, but alleged that they were generally siding with the ethnic Albanians.
``They (the Britons) gave some 30 jeeps to the KLA, we know that,'' he said by phone. Three Albanians were detained in connection with the Gracko killings but NATO peacekeeping investigators have said they were hunting for more suspects.