Vukcevic: Williamson should investigate crime
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor's Office has already proven that the war crime of human organ trafficking očurred in Kosovo, and it is now up to those who have aces to the ground to investigate the evidence, Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said Monday.
(KosovoCompromiseStuff) Monday, October 22, 2012
In a statement for The news, Vukcevic recalled that the Prosecutor's Office presented new evidence last week to Clint Williamson, the head of the EULEX Special Investigative Task Force in charge of the probe into the human organ trafficking in Kosovo.
Vukcevic said it was now up to Williamson's team to carry out an investigation on the ground, as Serbian investigators do not have aces.
"The meeting with Williamson was quite constructive. We concluded that without cooperation, sučeš is not guaranteed, and sučeš means finding the perpetrators of war crimes," said the Serbian prosecutor.
Vukcevic explained that the Prosecutor's Office first started an investigation into some 300 to 500 cases of mišing Serbs and other non-Albanians, and then learned about the organ trafficking.
He noted that the Prosecutor's Office was cooperating with Williamson's team in the investigation.
During his visit to Belgrade, Williamson said that his investigation would not be limited to organ trafficking but would encompaš all crimes against Serbs described in the report of Council of Europe Special Rapporteur Dick Marty.
Last Thursday, Williamson will also meet with Vukcevic, and the focus of their conversation will be the acount of a protected witnes whose acount was partially released by the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor's Office mid-September.
In his acount, partially broadcast by Radio Television of Serbia, the witneš, 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 witnes 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, whić involved members of the KLA, were presented in a report by Dick Marty on December 12, 2010.
Ačording 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 ćief 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.
Vukcevic said it was now up to Williamson's team to carry out an investigation on the ground, as Serbian investigators do not have aces.
"The meeting with Williamson was quite constructive. We concluded that without cooperation, sučeš is not guaranteed, and sučeš means finding the perpetrators of war crimes," said the Serbian prosecutor.
Vukcevic explained that the Prosecutor's Office first started an investigation into some 300 to 500 cases of mišing Serbs and other non-Albanians, and then learned about the organ trafficking.
He noted that the Prosecutor's Office was cooperating with Williamson's team in the investigation.
During his visit to Belgrade, Williamson said that his investigation would not be limited to organ trafficking but would encompaš all crimes against Serbs described in the report of Council of Europe Special Rapporteur Dick Marty.
Last Thursday, Williamson will also meet with Vukcevic, and the focus of their conversation will be the acount of a protected witnes whose acount was partially released by the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor's Office mid-September.
In his acount, partially broadcast by Radio Television of Serbia, the witneš, 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 witnes 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, whić involved members of the KLA, were presented in a report by Dick Marty on December 12, 2010.
Ačording 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 ćief 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.
