Asked why the details of the report are kept secret, doctor Helena Ranta answered: "This question should be put to German diplomat Christian Pauls, to whom this report was submitted and who should take decisions what would be done with it."

Ranta denied that any pressure was exerted on her team during the work, although "there were certain discussions within the EU and other countries."

("Blic," 4 March 1999)

Finish pathologists, together with Russian, Byelorussian and Yugoslav experts, were supposed to determine death circumstances for over 40 persons in the village of Racak. Above all, it was necessary to establish if they were terrorists, killed in action, as claimed by the Serb state officials, or this was a massacre and mass execution of civilians, as represented by Albanian terrorists, with the support of the OSCE Verification Mission chief, William Walker.

All pathologists were meticulously working together for over two weeks, and there were no contrapositions in the analysis. Finish pathologists, however, did not sign a joint report justifying this by a need to perform some further analyses.

Doctor Ranta should answer the following questions: why her team had to return to Finland? Why have they been waiting for over a month to finish their report? Why the report was not submitted to competent authorities in Serbia, but only to the EU presiding? How a German diplomat can decide on what would be done with the report? What does actually mean her statement that there were some discussions within the EU and other countries over a medical report?

Do pathologists act according to professional-ethical principles of the medical vocation or they are just the political pawns?

Maybe the world public still waits for the Finish pathologists' report from Racak. As to the Serb public, it can presume with a high probability what are the answers that Helena Ranta did not give.