Witnesses of Kosovo Albanian organ trafficking found
Serbia has tracked down people who claim to have witnessed the removal of organs from prisoners captured in Kosovo which were then allegedly trafficked abroad, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Investigators are probing claims organs were removed from hundreds of prisons — mainly Kosovo Serbs — who were kidnapped in Kosovo and taken to Albania in the summer of 1999, just after the end of the conflict in the territory.
Serbian war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic told the newspaper Blic on Sunday about the latest development and hailed it an advance in the investigation.
“We have made big progress…. We have discovered the names of people who were present while operations were carried out on the people who had been kidnapped,” he said.
“We have already interviewed some of these people but we have also noticed some of these potential witnesses harbour a great fear,” he said.
Investigators had managed to make contact with “credible” people willing to help them, Vukcevic added.
The prosecutor said he had passed details about the discovery to the Council of Europe’s envoy, Dick Marty, who is investigating the allegations.
The claims first arose in the memoirs published last year of former UN chief war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, which prompted the Council of Europe to reopen the case briefly investigated by her office five years ago.
She alleged the prisoners were taken to Albania by ethnic Albanians, and their organs were then trafficked abroad.
The leaders of Kosovo — a territory which unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008 and whose population is mainly ethnic Albanian — have rejected the allegations several times.
The 1998-1999 conflict between Kosovo guerrillas and forces loyal to late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic left around 10,000 people dead.
December 27, 2009
AFP
There will be no justice because there is none!
Velkovic
It seems the CofE is taking this seriously. I dont think Mr Vukcevic or Mr Marty would risk their reputations unless there was some compelling evidence.
look how the tracking of witnesses is done… http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=KGYqdvyRXy0#t=231
Sam
I have a difficutly trusting these days.
Alban, take your crap to your own site. They will appreciate it there.
albania road to hell
serbians people i wish you a happy new year
cazzate,
siete maccellai
I hope the Serbs are not foolish enough to belive that the EU will make anything out of this. They will give Sebia a little lip service and then dismiss it for lack of evidence.
Ethan.
Interesting link,money is their god that is one of the reasons the Vietnam war lasted so long these people were making billions,they don’t even care about American lives so they won’t care about any other countries people.
TAKE THE WITNESSES TO CUSTODY AND PROTECT THEM,
OTHERWISE THEY WILL NOY SURVIVE TO STAND AS WITNESSES.
Aquilia.