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photographs in the photo album were found as undeveloped film
in a field near Orahovac, Kosovo, in the summer of 1998 by
a German journalist, who then gave them to Human Rights Watch.
The remaining photographs were either obtained in July 1999
from local authorities in Kosovo’s western city of Pec,
whose administration was at that time run by former members
of the Kosovo Liberation Army, or were provided by American
RadioWorks, which has done extensive reporting on Kosovo.
We believe all of these photographs were taken by members
of the Serbian security forces and then left behind after
their departure from Kosovo in June 1999.
Human Rights Watch collected no evidence that the persons
depicted in these photographs are personally responsible for
the commission of war crimes.
The excerpts in this chapter are from interviews with Serb
fighters who were active in Pec and surrounding villages until
NATO troops entered Kosovo in June 1999. The interviews were
conducted by Michael Montgomery and Stephen Smith of American
RadioWorks in Montenegro in September and November 1999. The
first names in these excerpts are pseudonyms.
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