The affair was escalated briefly by Western governments with threats to bomb Serbia in retaliation. At the time, the OSCE sealed off the area and prevented the Serb authorities from carrying out autopsies. Some in the German press have now started speculating that the massacre never took place. Finnish medical experts were supposed to report on whether 45 Albanians had in fact been executed by Serb units, or whether defeated Albanians had gathered together the corpses of those killed in fighting. The dead have now been buried for three weeks and yet there is no report.
Nobody wants it.
The head of the OSCE, William Walker, had promised in the middle of February that the report would prove that a massacre had occurred. Haider has increased its share of the vote in elections in the Austrian region of Carinthia. Haider has said that he now expects to lead the region, although both he and the other parties have ruled out cooperating with one another. The last time Haider was elected to this post, in 1991, he resigned after two years having caused an outcry by saying that Hitler had had a good employment policy. Whatever the outcome in Carinthia, the Freedom Party is now in a very strong position for next year's legislative elections.