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“Either the French results are wrong or they mixed with other sheep which had it or they had it before they left,” said Mr Owen.. Human Rights organisations accused the Russian authorities yesterday of refusing to investigate the discovery of more than 50 corpses at a village close to the main Russian military base in Chechnya. Human Rights organisations accused the Russian authorities yesterday of refusing to investigate the discovery of more than 50 corpses at a village close to the main Russian military base in Chechnya.
Vselevod Chernov, the Russian prosecutor, says the bodies were those of foreign mercenaries and many of them wore Turkish underwear, evidence that they were fighting for Chechen rebels.Human rights campaigners suspect the dead, discovered in February, were Chechen civilians detained by Russian troops. Millions of Russians wear underclothing made in Turkey and the campaigners say this is the most absurd of many excuses made by Russian investigators for failing to identify the bodies.

The corpses, showing signs of torture and military-style execution, were found six weeks ago in the village of Zdorovye near the Russian base at Khankala, close to the Chechen capital, Grozny.Holly Cartner, executive director of the of the Europe and Central Asia division of Human Rights Watch, said: “The Russian government has focused its energy on denying any responsibility for the deaths.” Campaigners believe the bodies are evidence that Russian forces in Chechnya are torturing and “disappearing” Chechen civilians picked up randomly.Among the bodies buried near Khankala was Nina Lulueva, the wife of a judge. Last June, Mrs Lulueva and two cousins were detained by masked men when buying strawberries in a market in Grozny.Human Rights Watch says all the victims appear to have been executed. Some bore signs of torture, including stab wounds, broken bones, scalped body parts and ears cut off. Many had their hands tied behind them and had been blindfolded. The 17 bodies that have been identified were people who had been detained by Russian soldiers.In a sign that the international community, in contrast to the first months of the war, is now paying little attention to Russian actions in Chechnya, Mr Cartner says the Council of Europe human rights commissioner, Alvaro Gil-Robles, “inexplicably failed to visit the mass grave or view the 16 bodies that had been discovered at that time”.

Immediately after the first bodies were found Russian troops sealed off the area and said the corpses had been booby-trapped.The grim discovery close to Khankala is evidence that several thousand Chechens who have disappeared after being detained by Russian forces are dead.Anna Politkovskaya, a reporter for Novaya Gazeta, accused a unit of paratroops in southern Chechnya of routinely kidnapping Chechen civilians and holding them in deep pits until their relatives paid a ransom.. Slobodan Milosevic, who ruled unassailably through four Balkans wars, sat alone in a windowless, eight-foot square cell yesterday as the list of charges for him to answer grew. Slobodan Milosevic, who ruled unassailably through four Balkans wars, sat alone in a windowless, eight-foot square cell yesterday as the list of charges for him to answer grew.In Belgrade, the authorities said Mr Milosevic would be prosecuted for inciting his bodyguards to fire on police when they attempted to arrest him on Friday night, in addition to the existing charges against him.Serbian police yesterday displayed a huge stash of arms found at Mr Milosevic’s house, including a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, 27 Kalashnikov rifles, anti-tank mines, hand grenades and five crates of ammunition.Mr Milosevic was packing a German-made 9mm Sig-Sauer automatic while resisting arrest. His daughter Marija, 36, was also facing charges after a paraffin test confirmed that she had fired five rounds of ammunition at a car in the convoy that took her father to Belgrade’s central prison.The police said they had discovered documents calling for “organised armed action” on Sinisa Vucinic, one of the armed volunteers protecting Mr Milosevic at the house until he surrendered on Saturday. But Mr Milosevic’s supporters are not thought to have been capable of organising any action on a large enough scale to pose a serious threat.The news of Mr Milosevic’s arrest will resonate at 129 Blagoje Parovica, home to the second most notorious war criminal believed to be in Belgrade ­ Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general who wrote his name across Bosnia in blood.Now that the world’s most wanted war criminal is cooling his heels under lock and key, the arrest of Mr Mladic may not be far away.

There were riots yesterday in Srebrenica, scene of the worst single atrocity of a decade of wars in the Balkans, when war crimes investigators questioned the Bosnian Muslim who led the defence of the town.Mr Mladic is personally indicted for the murder of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men in a week in Srebrenica in 1995.Another man who will be nervous this week is Nikola Sainovic, who is indicted for atrocities committed in Kosovo. Mr Sainovic is charged alongside Mr Milosevic for abuse of power in Serbia, and is expected to be arrested soon. A senior government official under Mr Milosevic, Mr Sainovic was the one who issued the orders to security forces to force thousands of Albanians from their homes in Kosovo in 1999.Other indictees who may fear time is running out for them include Milan Milutinovic, president of the Serbian republic during the Kosovo war, Dragoljub Ojdanic, the army chief of staff at that time and Vlajko Stojiljkovic, who was Serbian interior minister.A spokeswoman at The Hague tribunal said that new indictments were being prepared against Mr Milosevic for war crimes committed during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia. He is already indicted for genocide and other crimes in Kosovo.The Hague tribunal’s announcement will strike renewed fears in the hearts of a few of Belgrade’s more famous residents.The Serb authorities insisted that there are no immediate plans to extradite the former president, and that he has been arrested only to face trial for crimes committed in Serbia.Mr Milosevic’s lawyer, Toma Fila, claimed yesterday that Serbian prosecutors do not have enough solid evidence on Mr Milosevic to secure a conviction at the moment.The move to arrest Mr Milosevic came at the eleventh hour before a United States deadline for Yugoslavia to cooperate with The Hague ­ or risk losing the $50m (£35m) of aid ­ expired, and it is possible that the authorities rushed to arrest Mr Milosevic before they had gathered all the evidence against him. Mr Milosevic has been remanded in custody for 30 days while investigations of the charges continue.The deposed president, a qualified lawyer, drafted his own appeal for the detention order to be lifted yesterday.