The families of victims of crimes committed in Kosovo wait too long for the justice and the truth about the fate of their loved ones, said in an interview for Tanjug Michael Montgomery, an American journalist who discovered “Yellow House” in Albania, where, according to the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Council of Europe, Dick Marty, the organs of abducted people were harvested.
In an interview for Voice of America, the former US diplomat and Balkans expert, James Hooper, said that the report of the US prosecutor, Clint Williamson, is linked more to Kosovo’s future than its past. Hooper, currently managing director of the Washington-based Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) said that the report doesn’t damage the KLA image but deals with certain individuals who used their position to gain political power after the war.
Former Council of Europe (CoE) rapporteur, Dick Marty, in an interview for SRF (Swiss radio), says statement by Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) prosecutor, Clint Williamson, is of extreme importance.
The first political entity in Kosovo to react to the statement of findings presented today by the lead prosecutor of the EU Special Investigative Task Force (SITF), Clint Williamson, is the Alliance for Future of Kosovo (AAK). In a statement to the press, AAK noted that the party has watched the presentation of Williamson’s report with increased interest and considers that the SITF work is a step forward in clarifying allegations already known to the public. AAK also thinks the report is a huge step in establishing rule of law in Kosovo.
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.
The world-renowned war crimes lawyers, Michael O’Reilly, told Radio Dukagjini that the report of the EU Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) lead prosecutor, Clint Williamson, is not expected to confirm organ trafficking allegations contained in the Council of Europe (CoE) report.
He said that since Williamson’s team failed to find evidence of organ trafficking, the indictment will be changed to only include war crimes. He warned however that an indictment of such nature would damage Kosovo’s international image.