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The chair of the Committee on Kosovo has presented a confidential, so far
unpublished report, where eight Albanians testify about human organ trade in
Kosovo.
Source: Tanjug Thursday, December 6, 2018 | 09:53
The Albanians in question were members of the co-called KLA ("Kosovo
Liberation Army"), Milovan Drecun, a member of the Serbian National Assembly
from the ranks of the ruling SNS, told public broadcaster RTS on Thursday.
"We are in possession of a report marked as confidential, it is not for the
public, the information is subject to journalistic discretion. This report
is dated October 2003. It's about the content of the visit of the chief of
investigations at the Hague Tribunal, Patrick Lopez-Terez, and his meeting
with the director of (UN mission in Kosovo) UNMIK's justice department,"
Drecun said.
He added that the report contains testimonies given by eight Albanians, all
ex-KLA, who "know the whole story."
"This introduction is based on interviews with the eight witnesses, all of
them Albanians from Kosovo and Montenegro who served in the KLA. Four
witnesses directly participated in the transport of at least 90 ethnic Serbs
and others to illegal prisons in central and northern Albania. They
delivered prisoners to a house-clinic south of Burrel. Two witnesses claim
to have participated in the transport of body parts and organs to the Rinas
airport near Tirana," Drecun said.
"According to all our knowledge, all transports and 'surgical' procedures
were executed with the knowledge and participation of middle and
senior-ranking KLA officers, as well as doctors from Kosovo and from abroad.
This operation was actively supported by people from the Albanian secret
police under control, at the time, of former Prime Minister Sali Berisha,"
the confidential report that Drecun read states.
Asked if there was a possibility for this report to be considered and for
something to happen in the case known as "Yellow House" - Drecun said the
subject of illegal trafficking in organs is an integral part of the report
of (former special Council of Europe rapporteur) Dick Marty
<http://www.assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-DocDetails-EN.asp?fileid=12608
&wrqid=0&ref=3446&lang=EN> , based on which the Specialist Prosecution (and
Chambers) for KLA Crimes have been formed.
"This organs trade must be the object of interest of the specialized
prosecution and they certainly work on it. It must be, it is one of the
supporting elements," Drecun said.
He recalled that Dick Marty identifies the illegal trafficking in human
organs and the Drenica criminal group of (now Kosovo President) Hashim Thaci
as the ones most responsible for the crimes.
"We have to wait and insist that as a state we do everything to get them in
the indictments as soon as possible. Time is running out. In the next few
months at most, they will decide whether to raise indictments or give up on
them. This is a period in which we must we make additional efforts to supply
them with as much evidence as possible, so that this doesn't happen to us
again. There are eight witnesses here, no one is doing anything. (Former
chief Hague prosecutor) Carla del Ponte published only years later this
story in a book, and I am asking why didn't you (act) when you had eight
witnesses. Here's proof that you had them: why didn't you open the case and
start prosecuting," Drecun asked.
