Finnish politician upset the region: Genocide committed against Serbs
"Genocide has been committed against Serbs over the last century, and false accusations that you committed crimes during the breakup of Yugoslavia are part of a campaign by large powers to justify their conquering goals", she said in an interview with Kosovo online portal.
Turpeinen was a Member of the Finnish Parliament but also an expert on the Council of Europe's Committee on Torture and Human Rights Violations. She has become known in the public for her support for General Ratko Mladic, and has written a book about this, and is in the process of completing a new study addressing a series of events that marked the breakup of the SFRY.
Among them is the Racak case, which was the reason for NATO's aggression against Serbia two decades ago, according to an interview broadcast by "Serbia Today".
Asked about the Racak case, Turpeinen said this case was very important because it was a provocation to bomb Serbia. "But it was just one in a series of provocations against your people. That is why my next book will be the history of the Holocaust and the genocide against Serbs, both during World War II and during the wars of the nineties, including the NATO occupation of Kosovo", she said.
When reminded that her country's government back then appointed Finnish forensic expert Helena Ranta as part of the expert team in the Racak case, Turpeinen says that at the invitation of Slobodan Milosevic to send an expert team to determine the circumstances of the suffering of individuals in Racak, the Finnish Foreign Ministry named Helena Ranta for some reason, instead of, for instance, Professor Anti Pentila, a top medical forensic scientist.
"The problem is that Ranta was not competent to determine the facts. Her responsibility was, in fact, to study...
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