But I knew that if I didn't do it, the Serb soldiers would kick them and beat them to get them on the vehicles.

The four Serb soldiers sprawled in a circle about the fire, two lying flat, two on hands and knees.

On 13 July, near Konjević Polje, Serb soldiers summarily executed hundreds of Bosniaks, including women and children.

They are unaware that they have photographed mass graves, and Serb soldiers have seen the jet.

During the battle, Serb troops believe that they have found Burnett's body, but Burnett had switched uniforms with a dead Serb soldier and escaped Hač.

"I was in a house when the Serb soldiers came in and started shooting everyone," she said.

Survivors testified that Serb soldiers and police would visit the detention centres, select one or more women, take them out and rape them.

Ljiljiana Karadzic, who like her husband is a psychiatrist, said that in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serb soldiers had been accused of raping 150,000 women.

Traces of "altropine," an antidote to chemical weapons, had been found by the KLA on the bodies of dead Serb soldiers, it added.

Without vehicles or even mules, the Serb soldiers could take no additional food supplies and had to carry their wounded on stretchers.