New details on organ trafficking soon
Serbian Prosecutor for War Crimes Vladimir Vukcevic has announced that new details on organ trafficking in Kosovo would be released in a few days.
(KosovoCompromiseStuff) Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Significant progress has been made in the organ trafficking investigation, he told.
"A witness's public appearance opened Pandora's box. People have realized that someone somewhere is doing something very serious. They feel encouraged and willing to help uncover the full truth about these events," Vukcevic stated.
Good cooperation with the special international investigation team led by Clint Williamson has been established, as well as with the team led by Canadian prosecutor Jonathan Rattel, which is investigating the Medicus hospital case, Vukcevis said, adding that the investigation covers 7 locations at the moment.
"In a few days, there will be new details, which the public will definitely find interesting, and bring partial satisfaction to the families of the victims," he noted.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia's (ICTY) release of Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac undermines the principle of combating impunity related to war crimes, he said.
"The crime in Krajina, murders of civilians and their exile, fate of the people who now live as refugees, far from their homes, is one of the greatest crimes in the former Yugoslavia, for which no one has answered yet," Vukcevic pointed out.
It is legally incomrehensible and unacceptable that equal facts result in long prison sentences in the original trial and a completely opposite decision in the appeal, he believes.
The ICTY released Gotovina and Markac on Friday. They were originally sentenced to 24 and 18 years in prison for crimes against the Serbs during and after Operation Storm in 1995.
"A witness's public appearance opened Pandora's box. People have realized that someone somewhere is doing something very serious. They feel encouraged and willing to help uncover the full truth about these events," Vukcevic stated.
Good cooperation with the special international investigation team led by Clint Williamson has been established, as well as with the team led by Canadian prosecutor Jonathan Rattel, which is investigating the Medicus hospital case, Vukcevis said, adding that the investigation covers 7 locations at the moment.
"In a few days, there will be new details, which the public will definitely find interesting, and bring partial satisfaction to the families of the victims," he noted.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia's (ICTY) release of Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac undermines the principle of combating impunity related to war crimes, he said.
"The crime in Krajina, murders of civilians and their exile, fate of the people who now live as refugees, far from their homes, is one of the greatest crimes in the former Yugoslavia, for which no one has answered yet," Vukcevic pointed out.
It is legally incomrehensible and unacceptable that equal facts result in long prison sentences in the original trial and a completely opposite decision in the appeal, he believes.
The ICTY released Gotovina and Markac on Friday. They were originally sentenced to 24 and 18 years in prison for crimes against the Serbs during and after Operation Storm in 1995.
