From Mr John Sweeney Sir: John Laughland should not believe
the likes of me, one of the so-called 'propagan- dists' he reviles. He should go to Kosovo and see for himself. Go to Little Drusha. Last March, 118 Albanian men and boys were led into a hay-barn, machine-gunned and set on fire. Six men were unscathed, played dead by hiding underneath the dead and the dying, and then ran off. The hay- barn was dynamited. Nine bodies were found in the village but these were killed in a separate, smaller massacre. None of the 112 machine-gunned has turned up. They included two 13-year-old boys, a man who normally went around in a wheelchair, a man with cerebral palsy and a 16-year-old who was mentally handicapped; Albanian terrorists every one.
Mr Laughland must come down on one of the two sides: either the Serb death squads have hidden the burnt bodies by dumping them down an old mineshaft, like the ones that litter Trepca, or in the river or somewhere; or the men are not dead and their grieving loved ones and the six sur- vivors have made it all up. He can examine the evidence which the Serb killers did not clean up — a skull, a bit of bone, a burnt wheelchair, a dog hacked into three pieces, all the Albanian homes gutted, the two holes in the ground where the hay-barn used to be and the hands of Mehmet Kras- niqi, still covered with blisters, evidence of the horrific burns he received when he was hiding under his dead neighbours; evidence which corroborates his story.
Or is Mr Laughland so wilfully obscuran- tist that he believes that no bodies equals no massacre?
John Sweeney The Observer, 119 Farringdon Road, London EC1
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