Some 860,000 ethnic Albanians fled Kosovo beginning in March, and hundreds of thousands have returned since the NATO bombing campaign ended. A spokesman for the German contingent, Lt. Col. Dietmar Jeserich, said troops found the bodies of 78 massacre victims Wednesday in a village nine miles northwest of Prizren. Jeserich said the bodies were discovered in Celine, but no further details would be available before investigators reached the site Thursday. Later, however, a NATO official speaking on condition of anonymity said peacekeepers had found 119 bodies at the site. The tribunal already has charged Milosevic and four senior aides with orchestrating atrocities by Serb forces in Kosovo.
None are in custody.
Robinson said after visiting the site of another mass killing at Matigan. It quoted a Serb Orthodox priest who blamed ethnic Albanians for the massacre. Thousands of Kosovo Serbs, often under the escort of NATO peacekeepers, have fled the province since ethnic Albanians began returning to Kosovo. Robinson also visited a camp at Kosovo Polje, where 4,000 Gypsies have sought shelter from ethnic Albanians who accuse them of collaborating with the Serbs. Copyright 1999 Associated Press .