Do medico-legal truths have more power than war lies? About the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and in Kosovo

War crimes perpetrated during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and in Kosovo prompted medicolegal investigations of mass graves as required by t he International Criminal Tribunal (ICT). In spite of natural and methodolo gical boundaries, these investigations were able to help to identify the vi ctims and to discover the clues and evidence that are likely to support obj ectively the indictments brought by the ICT. However, the medico-legal data cannot explain everything. They should be exploited very carefully in orde r to avoid any error of interpretation.