Hague won't investigate KLA organ trade allegations

The UN war crimes court in The Hague says it will not open an investigation into the alleged organ harvesting of the Kosovo Serb victims.

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The UN war crimes court in The Hague says it will not open an investigation into the alleged organ harvesting of the Kosovo Serb victims. Spokeswoman Olga Kavran said Saturday that the Prosecutor's Office has received several requests regarding the case, and that it would provide all the information it has, but that the exit strategy for the Tribunal prohibits it from conducting new investigations. Hague won't investigate KLA organ trade allegations The exit strategy, developed by the UN Security Council forbids the prosecution from opening new investigations after the end of 2004, Kavran told Tanjug news agency. She explained that previously the tribunal prosecution had carried out a preliminary investigation about the kidnapping of people in Kosovo, but that no sufficient evidence was uncovered to justify the further work of the prosecution on this. Kavran said that the prosecution would give information to individual countries which launch probes of their own, and that it would respond to requests from the investigative organs of those countries. The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution has announced it is putting together a case, after details of former Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte's new book surfaced in the media in March. Del Ponte, now Switzerland's ambassador to Argentina, wrote that in 2003 her office had to abandon an investigation into credible reports that some 100 - 300 Kosovo Serbs were kidnapped and taken to Albania. The former Hague prosecutor also said there were indications the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was involved in this. Calls to probe the allegations, most notably from Human Rights Watch, were dismissed by the Kosovo Albanian leadership, but earlier this week the prosecution in Tirana said it would cooperate in the investigation.

Hague won't investigate KLA organ trade allegations

The exit strategy, developed by the UN Security Council forbids the prosecution from opening new investigations after the end of 2004, Kavran told Tanjug news agency.

She explained that previously the tribunal prosecution had carried out a preliminary investigation about the kidnapping of people in Kosovo, but that no sufficient evidence was uncovered to justify the further work of the prosecution on this.

Kavran said that the prosecution would give information to individual countries which launch probes of their own, and that it would respond to requests from the investigative organs of those countries.

The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution has announced it is putting together a case, after details of former Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte's new book surfaced in the media in March.

Del Ponte, now Switzerland's ambassador to Argentina, wrote that in 2003 her office had to abandon an investigation into credible reports that some 100 - 300 Kosovo Serbs were kidnapped and taken to Albania.

The former Hague prosecutor also said there were indications the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was involved in this.

Calls to probe the allegations, most notably from Human Rights Watch, were dismissed by the Kosovo Albanian leadership, but earlier this week the prosecution in Tirana said it would cooperate in the investigation.

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