Investigation to be led by Court for organ trade

The court in Lebanon was founded by the UN SC Resolution 1757 to investigate the role of Lebanon terrorists in a series of terrorist attacks including the one in which former Lebanon PM Refik Hariri was assassinated. Similar resolution for Kosovo based on Dick Marty's report accusing the Kosovo Liberation Army leaders including the actual Prime Minister Hashim Thaci for cruel murders, drugs, arms and human trafficking could be initiated by any of the UN members or several of them, or a member of the UN SC.

Dick Marty, the special rapporteur of the Council of Europe is requesting setting up of such a court outside Kosovo referring to information he got but also numerous intelligence sources claiming that Kosovo mafia is managed and coordinated by several individuals on key positions in the actual power relied on severely corrupted links in police, legislation and the very EULEX.

Having in mind killings of several witnesses in the court process against Ramush Haradinaj, Dick Marty is requesting a court which would give maximal guarantees for the safety of witnesses. He is not counting on the EULEX at all!

The question to be set is whether this investigation could be a new task for the ICTY should its mandate be extended so as to cover this subject, too. Having in mind the limited mandate of the Tribunl which is to end in two years and having in mind claims from Marty's report that the evidence gathered by investigators of the Hague Tribunal in 2005 were destroyed, that does not seem very logical.

To entrust such a complicated case to local prosecutions, including the Albanian ones would doom it to failure. Albanian prosecution has not shown any readiness to cooperate until so far and refused to supply any material to the Swiss prosecutor Dick Marty.

UNMIK was aware of crimes as early as in 2003

According to the UN document, as early as in 2003 the UNMIK got information about murders and organ trade in Kosovo and the Hague Tribunal was then accordingly informed. According to that document the KLA leaders used to get up to 45,000 Dollars for organs taken from one abducted individual only. In a report on 30 pages, it is said that abductions of Serbs began in the middle of 1999 when a hundred to three hundred people were abducted and transported by trucks and tractors to prison buildings in Kukesh and Tropoja, towns in the north of Albania.