Serb prosecutor in Tirana for talks with Albanian counterpart on the KLA organ trade case
Serbia's war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic has arrived to Tirana on Monday for talks with his Albanian counterpart Ina Rama over the allegations that the Kosovo Albanian KLA guerillas had killed Serb prisoners and sold their organs
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, October 27, 2008
Allegations of organ-trafficking involving Serbs killed during Kosovo's 1998-99 war first surfaced in a book by the former chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte.
In "The Hunt: War Criminals and Me," Del Ponte wrote that, according to her sources, between 100 and 300 mostly Serb civilians were transported by truck from Kosovo to a house near the Albanian town of Burrel, about 90 kilometers north of the capital, Tirana.
Kosovo guerillas killed the Serbs and doctors allegedly extracted the captives' internal organs, Del Ponte wrote.
The spokesman for the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor's Office Bruno Vekaric said last week that the Prosecutor's Office had received some evidence on trade with human organs two days ago and said that this was very important since it would help the investigation.
