Serbian prosecutors get support from ICTY over organs trafficking case
The office of the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor has won the support of the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague in the realization of an investigation into possible trafficking of organs of Serbs kidnapped in Kosovo.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vlaidmir Vukcevic secured this support in a talk with ICTY Chief Investigator Patrick Lopez-Terres.
Former chief prosecutor of the ICTY Carla del Ponte announced in her book entitled "The Hunt" that her Office gained knowledge, while investigating crimes committed by the Kosovo Albanian separatists (UCK) against Serbs, that organs were harvested from certain Serbs who went missing in Kosovo in 1999, and that these organs were sold abroad. Del Ponte said in her book that, according to data available to her at that time, all this took place in camps located in northern Albania.
According to sources close to the investigative authorities, "Albanian witnesses have said they are ready to testify about the human organ trade before The Hague investigators, and will also answer questions by the Serbia's examiner."
