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ROME - Investigations by international medical and specialised teams clearly show that no mass executions have been conducted in Kosovo and Metohija, the Rome daily L'Unita quoted Thursday a spokesman for the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague as saying.
The paper said that the investigations to date, which it said had been thorough, by medical teams from 15 countries including the United States, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, France, Germany, Iceland, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland and Great Britain, had only led to the discovery of 187 bodies in different locations.
The paper said that reports on mass graves in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province, launched by the international community during NATO's March 24-June 10 aggression on Yugoslavia, were, consequently, totally untrue.
In most of the places claimed to be the sites of mass execution like those at Trepca, Djakovica and Izbica, not a single body has been found, the paper said.
L'Unita also said that seven bodies had been found near Pec, in the west of Kosovo and Metohija, of the 350 bodies claimed to have been buried there.
The international teams' investigations have shown that NATO's claim that it must bomb Yugoslavia to stop genocide in Kosovo and Metohija was nothing but a pretext to do so because there was no genocide in the province in the first place, the daily said.