Head of EULEX investigation team to visit Belgrade
John Clint Williamson, head of the EULEX Special Investigative Task Force in charge of the probe into the human organ trafficking in Kosovo and north Albania, will arrive on a visit to Belgrade on Wednesday.
(KosovoCompromiseStuff) Wednesday, October 17, 2012
As announced in the Serbian capital, Williamson will first confer with Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic on Wednesday, and then with Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic on Thursday.
The head of the EULEX Special Investigative Task Force and the Serbian officials will discuss the human organ trafficking in Kosovo, with a focus on the protected witness, whose account was partially released by the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor's Office mid-September.
In his account partially broadcast by the Radio-Television of Serbia, the witness, who is a former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), described in detail how a heart was harvested from a Serb captive near Kukes, north Albania, to be sold in the black market.
The protected witness also described the procedure of trafficking in organs harvested from Serbs, who were abducted and imprisoned in Kosovo in 1998/1999.
The details on human organ trafficking, which involved members of the KLA, were presented in a report by Special Rapporteur of the Council of Europe Dick Marty on December 12, 2010.
According to Marty's report, the masterminds behind the abductions and human organ trafficking in Kosovo were the incumbent Kosovo Prime Minister Hasim Taci and the Drenica Group.
Carla Del Ponte, former chief prosecutor of the ICTY, wrote in her book "The Hunt: Me and the War Criminals" published after she stepped down from the office that 300 Serbs and a small number of other non-Albanians were transported to the Yellow House near Burrel, north Albania, where their organs were removed and later sold.
The head of the EULEX Special Investigative Task Force and the Serbian officials will discuss the human organ trafficking in Kosovo, with a focus on the protected witness, whose account was partially released by the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor's Office mid-September.
In his account partially broadcast by the Radio-Television of Serbia, the witness, who is a former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), described in detail how a heart was harvested from a Serb captive near Kukes, north Albania, to be sold in the black market.
The protected witness also described the procedure of trafficking in organs harvested from Serbs, who were abducted and imprisoned in Kosovo in 1998/1999.
The details on human organ trafficking, which involved members of the KLA, were presented in a report by Special Rapporteur of the Council of Europe Dick Marty on December 12, 2010.
According to Marty's report, the masterminds behind the abductions and human organ trafficking in Kosovo were the incumbent Kosovo Prime Minister Hasim Taci and the Drenica Group.
Carla Del Ponte, former chief prosecutor of the ICTY, wrote in her book "The Hunt: Me and the War Criminals" published after she stepped down from the office that 300 Serbs and a small number of other non-Albanians were transported to the Yellow House near Burrel, north Albania, where their organs were removed and later sold.
