He was originally charged only with the forcible removal of non-Serbs from Bosnia/Herzegovina which resulted in the indiscriminate slaughter of anywhere from 2,788 to 225,000 people – although this number admittedly might include combatants on both sides and Serbs and Roma killed by the Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army.

It now seems, however, that Milosevic's program of ethnic cleansing stretched all the way to the Middle East," said council for the prosecution, Geoffrey Nice. The news has caused a stir among those who were directly involved in the conflict. William Cohen, the US defence secretary during the NATO campaign said that he expects the discovery of more graves containing as many as 100,000 men "aged between 14 and 59" who "may have been murdered." British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the new evidence of Milosevic's perfidy "invoked the Holocaust and the spirit of the Second World War." The British press echoed his horror-stricken indignation: "Spirit of the Holocaust," wrote the Daily Mail. The political science journal, The Daily Mirror said the new discovery "invoked the Second World War."

Having not found a single mass grave in 1999, the FBI had gone home. The Spanish forensic team also returned home, its leader complaining angrily that he and his colleagues had become part of "a semantic pirouette by the war propaganda machines, because we did not find one - not one - mass grave." Even The Wall Street Journal dismissed "the mass grave obsession." Instead of "the huge killing fields some investigators were led to expect . . . the pattern is of scattered killings [mostly] in areas where the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army has been active." The Journal concluded that NATO stepped up its claims about Serbian killing fields when it "saw a fatigued press corps drifting toward the contrary story: civilians killed by Nato's bombs . . . The war in Kosovo was cruel, bitter, savage. Genocide it wasn't."

With the claims of genocide now vindicated, British MP Clare Short is demanding that such "Nazi propagandists" be investigated for intentional mishandling of evidence. The next step, according to Short, is to subject Kosovo to minute examination. MI6 has yet to bring evidence of the infamous "Serbian rape camps" to the Hague tribunal. This task may be taken up by the American FBI who arrived in Bosnia this week to investigate the newly discovered grave, called "the largest crime scene in the FBI's forensic history