Speaking at a conference on freedom of the media in Belgrade on Thursday, American investigative journalist Michael Montgomery recalled how his investigation into wartime crimes by Serbian fighters in 1999 led him to uncover allegations about the trafficking of the organ of prisoners who had been abducted by the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Fifteen years later, these allegations led to the establishment of a new internationally-backed special court which will be set up in the coming months by the Kosovo authorities, to be based both in the former Serbian province and in the Netherlands.
As Balkans correspondent for the London-based Daily Telegraph, Montgomery covered the conflicts in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, then returned to Kosovo after the war in July 1999 to co-produce a major radio documentary, ‘Massacre at Cuska’, which documented the killings of Kosovo Albanian villagers by Serbian forces.
“At that time we heard that there were people – Serbs, Roma, some Kosovo Albanians – killed by Kosovo Liberation Army, and they simply vanished and it was very strange and we started looking into that,” Montgomery told the conference in Belgrade organised by US magazine Newsweek.
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