Del Ponte co-author speaks out

The co-author of Carla Del Ponte’s book “The Hunt” says that Vojislav Koštunica and several army generals blocked Serbia’s cooperation with the Hague Tribunal.

Izvor: Beta

Wednesday, 16.04.2008.

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The co-author of Carla Del Ponte’s book “The Hunt” says that Vojislav Kostunica and several army generals blocked Serbia’s cooperation with the Hague Tribunal. Chuck Sudetic also said that the allegations of Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, members selling abducted Serbs' organs on the black market had probably been “a little twisted,” considering the emotions involved in the entire conflict, Beta news agency reports. Del Ponte co-author speaks out “There were credible reports of the kidnapping of between 100 and 300 Serbs from Kosovo and their transfer to Albanian—transfer to a third country across international borders, which is unheard of—together with credible reports of operations to remove organs for trade that led to the deaths of a few, but not all of those kidnapped,” Sudetic said. He said that in spite of this, the Tribunal had been unable to continue the investigation. In terms of time frame, the Tribunal covered the crimes committed until the arrival of NATO troops in Kosovo in 1999, and “it looks as if these events occurred after their arrival.” Sudetic, a U.S. journalist of Croatian extraction, who was employed as the Hague Tribunal's analyst, was also quoted by the daily Politika today as telling Neue Zuricher Zeitung that the data on the investigations was for this reason handed over to UNMIK and the Albanian government. "Perhaps now, thanks to this book, some witnesses will come forward, while those who took part in this will not sleep well," he told the Swiss daily. "One former diplomat told me he had heard about it [KLA organ trafficking], but that there were difficulties in proving that the crime took place. He advised me not to get on the wrong side of the Albanian mafia. People are afraid of organized crime," the former New York Times correspondent from Bosnia said.

Del Ponte co-author speaks out

“There were credible reports of the kidnapping of between 100 and 300 Serbs from Kosovo and their transfer to Albanian—transfer to a third country across international borders, which is unheard of—together with credible reports of operations to remove organs for trade that led to the deaths of a few, but not all of those kidnapped,” Sudetic said.

He said that in spite of this, the Tribunal had been unable to continue the investigation. In terms of time frame, the Tribunal covered the crimes committed until the arrival of NATO troops in Kosovo in 1999, and “it looks as if these events occurred after their arrival.”

Sudetic, a U.S. journalist of Croatian extraction, who was employed as the Hague Tribunal's analyst, was also quoted by the daily Politika today as telling Neue Zuricher Zeitung that the data on the investigations was for this reason handed over to UNMIK and the Albanian government.

"Perhaps now, thanks to this book, some witnesses will come forward, while those who took part in this will not sleep well," he told the Swiss daily.

"One former diplomat told me he had heard about it [KLA organ trafficking], but that there were difficulties in proving that the crime took place. He advised me not to get on the wrong side of the Albanian mafia. People are afraid of organized crime," the former New York Times correspondent from Bosnia said.

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