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The Autopsy

After pulling the children out of the overturned vehicle and forcing them to sit down in the snow by the road, SFOR members then proceeded to pull Dragan Gagovic, who was already dead, out of the car onto the road where they first photographed him, then threw him into a truck and transported him to an unknown destination.

The body of Dragan Gagovic was later delivered to the Pathology Ward of General Hospital in Srbinje. Picture 1 shows how Gagovic’s head had been bandaged. Removal of the bandaging revealed that an autopsy had already been performed, but only on the head and not the rest of the body since since there were no autopsy cuts on the chest and stomach area (Pictures 1 and 2). This is the reason why Dr. Stanisa Milic, a pathology specialist from Uzice, Yugoslavia, performed a second autopsy. Picture 2 shows Gagovic’s head when the bandaging was removed showing a wound on the left side of the forehead where a bullet had exited. Picture 3 and 4 shows a wound caused by a bullet which entered the lower back of the head, at the neck. Beside this wound is a cut which was made during the first autopsy. The internal plate of the bone in the lower back of the head was broken, proving that the bullet had entered here (Pictures 5 and 6) and had exited through the forehead where the external plate of the left half of the frontal bone was broken (Picture 7). Pictures 8 and 9 show a probe from one wound to the other, showing the direction in which the bullet moved. Picture 10 shows that the brain of Dragan Gagovic was removed during the first autopsy, and which was delivered in a bag full of ice in a special case. Picture 11 shows Gagovic’s brain which obviously was not examined according to the autopsy standards of forensic medicine.

 

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Further, the autopsy revealed that a bullet had pierced through the brain, thus, causing death. The bullet had entered his head from the back going forward and upward, slightly to the right (Picture 9) which proves that Dragan Gagovic was shot at from the back.

 

The doctor, representing The Hague Tribunal, who had performed the first autopsy, also concluded that a bullet had pierced the head of Dragan Gagovic. However, one question is unavoidable, what kind of forensic medicine "experts" work for The Hague Tribunal when they are satisfied with an only partially completed autopsy? In this particular case, one of the basic facts which should have been determined is whether Gagovic was first shot in the head causing him to lose control of the vehicle, or did he first lose control, causing the vehicle to overturn, to be subsequently shot in the back of the head.

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