The former chief prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal, Carla del Ponte, expressed regret that the team of chief prosecutor for investigating trafficking in organs in Kosovo in 1999, Clint Williamson, did not find enough evidence to indict persons responsible for these crimes.
The Government of Kosovo has issued a press release where it values the report of Ambassador Clint Williamson on the investigations based on the claims of the European Council Rapporteur, Dick Marty on trafficking of human organs by the members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
Families of Missing and Kidnapped Serbs from Kosovo believe that the Special Tribunal for Crimes of the KLA, whose formation was announced, is last chance to shed light on their fate.
Silvana Marinkovic is looking for her husband Goran. She is hoping that the investigation will finally begin and the fate of the missing and kidnapped will be solved and the perpetrators of these crimes will finally be arrested and punished.
She warns that in many cases there is evidence of the perpetrators and that although nothing has been done.
The lead prosecutor of the EU Special Investigative Task Force (SITF), Clint Williamson, did not rule out the possibility that there were executions in Kosovo for organ harvesting purposes but that during the investigations he led he was unable to find sufficient evidence to file an indictment.
However, he said that war crimes indictments can be expected against KLA central figures. Williamson said there are enough evidence to support charges of other crimes that are considered war crimes be it because they violated laws of warfare or Kosovo domestic laws.
There is a possibility for indictments against the commanders of operational zones of the former Kosovo Liberation Army on the basis of the evidence presented in the report of the Clint Williamson, Chief Prosecutor of the Special team for investigation human organs trafficking in Kosovo in 1999, learned Danas from diplomatic sources in Brussels.
“I expect that based on the testimony of over 400 witnesses Clint Williamson collected enough information about the kidnappings, killings, and trafficking in organs, i.e., crimes committed since 1998 till 2000 against the Serbian and other non-Albanian victims,” says Serbian War Crimes prosecutor, Vladimir Vukcevic. He added that Williamson’s special team investigated trafficking in organs in nine countries in the region, but also in Russia, Turkey and Ukraine.
U.S. Prosecutor Clint Williamson failed to prove trafficking in human organs in Kosovo during the 1999 conflict, according to diplomatic sources in Brussels.
Brussels, Belgrade - No evidence of trafficking in human organs in Kosovo, organized crime, or on command responsibility of the central headquarters of the former Kosovo Liberation Army, according to the report of the Chief Prosecutor of the Special Investigation Team Clint Williamson on organ trafficking during the war in Kosovo in 1999, Danas learned from diplomatic sources in Brussels.
War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said today that the investigation into organ trafficking in Kosovo (the case of the yellow house), came to an end and now should be decided whether charges will be filed or they will give up from it, saying that the evidence Serbia has speak about the existence of war crimes.
Belgrade - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said in Belgrade that the publication of the report of the Chief Prosecutor Clint Williamson, investigating human organs trafficking, will be of paramount importance to Serbia.
As announced by the Government of Serbia, Prime Minister Vucic said at a meeting with Williamson that the publication of report will confirm objectivity of the EU institutions and international community in the investigation of crimes committed during the war in Kosovo in 1999, and in the former Yugoslavia.