La caccia

[io e i criminali di guerra]

di Carla del Ponte [2008]
Editore Feltrinelli
La presentazione e le recensioni di "La caccia [io e i criminali di guerra]", saggio di Carla del
Ponte edito da Feltrinelli. Nessuno pi di Carla Del Ponte ha lavorato per assicurare alla giustizia
i responsabili dei peggiori crimini di guerra perpetrati nel mondo negli anni pi recenti.
Ben nota a livello internazionale fin dai tempi dell'inchiesta "pizza connection", quando insieme
a Giovanni Falcone fece luce sui legami tra la mafia siciliana e il riciclaggio di denaro effettuato
in Svizzera, nel 1999 l'ex procuratrice generale della Confederazione elvetica viene nominata
dall'Onu Procuratore capo del Tribunale penale internazionale per i crimini nella ex Jugoslavia e
viene contemporaneamente incaricata di seguire il dossier sul genocidio in Ruanda.
Comincia allora una lotta tenace e coraggiosa contro la cultura dell'impunit ancor oggi
dominante, una vera e propria 'caccia' di cui questo libro ricostruisce per la prima volta tutte le
fasi decisive, i protagonisti, i retroscena fin qui mai rivelati. Sul banco degli imputati finiranno
tra gli altri Slobodan Milosevic, Presidente della Serbia, Milan Babic, Primo ministro della
Repubblica Serba di Krajina, il comandante paramilitare serbo "Arkan", decine di generali,
comandanti di polizia e politici di ogni livello. Una lettura decisiva per capire in presa diretta gli
ultimi quindici anni di storia europea, il futuro dell'area balcanica, l'intricata vicenda del
Kosovo.
ISTRAGE SU TRAJALE
[evo, uskoro ce 15 godina od kada zu
ORGANI VADJENI IZ ZHIVIH LJUDI!]
& do juche je poneki naivko mogao da se nada
"da ce monstruozni zlochini biti kazhnjeni":
Europe to Crack down
on Organ trafficking
by Barbara Green [11. July 2014]

The Council of Europe on Wednesday has created an international convention among
member states against human organ trafficking. This convention intends to commit
member states to enforcing, and it some cases creating, laws against the illegal trade of
human organs within their countries. This can include traffic in organs from living or
deceased, voluntary or involuntary donors. It is hoped that this will prevent the sale of
human organs, typically from individuals desperate for money, or the theft of organs
from unwilling donors. It will also prevent the sale of organs from deceased individuals
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Subject: UPORNO & STROGO CHUVANA TAJNA O "KRVAVOJ ZHETVI" ili:"Switzerland government bars Del Ponte" [P.S.:"Nije 500, nego
'samo 400' nego 'samo 300', nego da se dogovorimo?"
Date: July 27, 2014 11:03:37 PM GMT+02:00

by illicit traders.
It is estimated by health officials that in Europe there are at least 60,000 individuals
waiting for kidney transplants, which is one of the most commonly needed organs. As
at least a dozen of these individuals die daily without receiving a needed transplant
and combined with the agony of waiting for an organ through the legitimate organ
donation networks many desperate patients are pushed into the illegal market. This
is limited to patients of means, who are capable of traveling to distant locations and
paying out of pocket for the needed organs. This trade is facilitated by criminal cartels
who coerce economically or psychically desperate individuals to surrender one of their
kidneys.
According to the World Health Organization, illicit organ donation occurs
approximately 10,000 times a year. Individuals who sell their organs through the
black-market often have long-lasting negative health repercussions due to lack of
adequate follow-up care and substandard conditions in the surgical donation
theaters. The Council of Europe hopes that with this new convention the negative
effects of the illegal trade in organs can be limited in Europe. While it will be up to
individual members states to prosecute organ traffickers, many of the potential
signatories states have already released statements noting that the donors will not be
prosecuted under any potentially introduced laws. However, surgeons and traffickers
who facilitate this traffic will likely be prosecuted under this convention.
Organ trafficking in Europe has received a great deal of attention in the last month.
A special investigation team in Kosovo is expected
to release their findings in the next few months
on alleged Human Organ Trafficking during the war in 1999.
News programs in Kosovo
have released information on the investigation
that claims that these accusations were unfounded.
This will likely be highly controversial,
as the claims of an illegal organ trade occurring
during the conflict has also been investigated
by the United Nations and the Council of Europe.
Both organizations have found that
the allegations are credible
and have called for further investigations.
There have also been rumors among Russian media sources that Ukrainian forces and
their allies have been engaging in illegal organ trade that targets the Russian-
Ukrainian population. The BBC has noted that there is little to no evidence of these
claims, which are largely propagated by word of mouth rather than any official reports.
However, the concern that individuals, especially orphans or refugees whose
disappearance during chaos may go unnoticed, have had their organs forcibly removed
remains a topic of concern in Russian-language social media.
.eeee, NECE!
SOTONINI SAVEZNICI
NIKADA NE ODGOVARAJU ZA SVOJA ZLODELA.
NJIH SOTONA KAZHNJAVA
SAMO KADA GA IZDAJU, ILI
"KAD MU PRDNE NA PAMET":)))
"Bez optube za trgovinu organima"
IZVOR: B92
Pritina -- U kosovskoj javnosti ocenjuju da Vilijamsonov izvetaj, koji treba da
bude predstavljen u utorak, nee obuhvatiti trgovinu organima.
Na Kosovu je poela rasprava o sadraju izvetaja i istraivanja koje je o navodima iz izvetaja Dika Martija u roku od
tri godine sproveo specijalni tim na elu sa tuocem Klintom Vilijamson. Pominje se i mogunost da se optuba o
trgovini organima, zbog nedostatka dokaza, nee nai meu optunim takama.
Izvetaj specijalnog tima Evropske zajednice, za istraivanje navoda iz izvetaja Dika Martija o trgovini organima na
Kosovu, koji e u utorak objaviti glavni tuilac Klint Vilijamson, nee obuhvatiti najskeptiniju taku za javnost, onu za
trgovinu organima, kae pritinski novinar i pravosudni ekspert Vehbi Kajtazi.
Nalazi trogodinje istrage sprovedene na Kosovu, Albaniji i u drugim delovima, nisu pronali dokaze da je bilo
trgovine ljudskim organima. Izvetaj koji e biti objavljen, verujem da prema obeanjima koje je dala ekipa
Klinta Vilijamsona nee dozvoliti mogunost za razliita tumaenja. Izvetaj e konstatovati da nema
dovoljno dokaza za podizanje optunice za trgovinu ljudskim organima. Prema Kajtaziju ljudi sa komandnog
lanca OVK, a ni kosovski premijer, nee biti meu optuenima.
Nakon formiranja suda, to se oekuje da se dogodi sledee godine, bie podignuta najmanje jedna optunica
sa ne vie od 10 optuenih. Komandna odgovornost u ovom sluaju ne dolazi u obzir. to znai nee niko biti
optuen na osnovu komandne odgovornosti iz redova OVK, ve samo na osnovu individualne odgovornosti.
To podrazumeva da su od mogue optunice osloboeni glavni rukovodioci OVK, ukljuujui i Haima Taija.
Bez obzira na sadrinu izvetaja koji ce specijalni tuilac Klint Vilijamson predstaviti javnosti u utorak, iz ministarstva
pravde, poruuju da je Kosovo spremno za zakonske i ustavne promene koje su neophodne za osnivanje specijalnog
suda.
"Kosovo ima konsenzus da nakon formiranja novih institucija nastavi sa zakonskim i ustavnim promenama
kao podrka pravnim organima, kako bi se pomoglo osnivanju suda koji ce biti nepristrasan, profesionalan i
kredibilan"
kae Driton Lajci, savetnik ministra pravde Hajredina Kuija. Graani Pritine smatraju da je Martijev izvetaj naneo
veliku tetu imidu Kosova i dodaju da Kosovo to pre mora da se oslobodi ovih optubi.
"Mislim da je ovo sledeci instrument koji graani Kosova treba da podravaju, jer e se njime jo jednom
dokazati pravedna borba OVK koja je Kosovo dovela tu gde je danaskae jedanNadam se da emo
napokon saznati da li je bilo trgovine ljudskim organima ili ne. Ja lino mislim da nije ali da prepustimo
nadlenim organima da utvrde sta se stvarno dogodilo u to vremeocenjuje drugi.
Strunjaci u Pritini istiu da ce Vilijamsonovo objavljivanje izvetaja pokenuti mehanizam koji u Pritini treba da
dovede do ustavnih promena i usvajanja zakona kojim ce biti uspostavljen specijalni sud; u Holandiji do pristanka
tamonje vlade i parlementa da ugosti jedno odeljenje ovog suda; I u Briselu do odluke da Evropska unije preuzme
na sebe finansiranje suda i selekciju sudskog i tuilackog kadra.
http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2014&mm=07&dd=27&nav_category=640&nav_id=881580
Vukcevic:
Yellow House case
has reached its end Today

[July 23, 2014]

BELGRADE Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic stated on Tuesday that the investigation into
human organ trafficking in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) and the Yellow House case has reached its end and that a
decision now needs to be adopted as to whether the indictment would be raised or the case would be
dismissed.
The evidence we have gathered testifies that war crimes were indeed committed, but we have
not reached the individuals who executed them. We have established the existence of the criminal
act of war crime but we have not managed to establish the particulars concerning the alleged
organ trafficking
Vukcevic told reporters in the Special Court, ahead of his meeting with chief prosecutor Clint Williamson of
the special team in charge of the investigation into human organ trafficking during the 1999 clashes in KiM.
I see that the investigation has come to an end and now the decision needs to be adopted as to
whether to raise the indictment or call off any further proceedings
Vukcevic said. The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutors Office attempted to realise cooperation with their
Albanian colleagues and get access to the sites suspected of containing victims remains but were denied
the right to examine the field, he said. Vukcevic expressed the expectation that Williamson will release the
results of the investigation into the case in the days to come.
Vukcevic said that the War Crimes Prosecutors Office has obtained information according to which over
300 people of non-Albanian ethnicity went missing in the area and over 400 witnesses were interrogated
during the investigation.
Replying to reporters question as to whether he knows the contents of Williamsons report, Vukcevic said
that he does not know what the report states and he also did not wish to mention names of potential
suspects which came up during the proceedings conducted by the Serbian Prosecutors Office.
I will not disclose any names, I will leave it to Williamson to do so instead
Vukcevic said. Asked by reporters if he has any knowledge about the allegations reported by Pristina media
which say that the report lists no tangible evidence of organ trafficking activities, Vukcevic said that it had
been agreed at the very first meeting with Williamson in Brussels that no statements should be made about
the report until its official presentation. Vukcevic commended Williamson on the work done in the case in
the course of the past three years.
The Yellow House case was launched upon publication of the book The Hunt written by former
prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia Carla del Ponte which presents
an account of the human organ trafficking in KiM, Vukcevic said. After the book publication, the Serbian
Prosecutors Office launched the investigation and submitted its report to Council of Europe special
rapporteur for human organ trafficking Dick Marty. Williamsons investigation followed Martys report,
Vukcevic said and added that he hopes the results of the investigation will be made public in the next few
days.

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<inserbia.info/today/2014/07/vukcevic-yellow-house-case-has-reached-its-end/>
Switzerland government bars Del Ponte
from promoting war crimes book
Tuesday 8 April 2008
by Leslie Schulman
[JURIST] The Switzerland Foreign Ministry [official website] has barred former ICTY
chief prosecutor and current Swiss ambassador to Argentina Carla Del Ponte [BBC
profile; JURIST news archive] from publicly promoting her new book "The Hunt: Me
and War Criminals," according to Tuesday reports.
The Swiss government has said that statements made in the book [Kosovo Compromise report]
that condemn the actions of several politicians of the former Yugoslavia, including current
Kosovar Prime Minister Hashim Thaci [official website, in Albanian; BBC profile], are
inconsistent with her present role.
Switzerland was one of the first countries to recognize Kosovo's February unilateral
declaration of independence [JURIST report].
In the book Del Ponte also criticizes the United States for discouraging prosecution of
the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) members, currently in power in Rwanda, in
connection with the 1994 genocide there.
Del Ponte was initially also in charge of prosecutions before the International Criminal Tribunal
for Rwanda.
Del Ponte, who served as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website], alleges in her book that
approximately 300 Serbs were killed for organ trafficking after being imprisoned by
Albanian rebels in 1999.
Last month, the Office of Serbia's War Crimes Prosecutor [official website] said that it was
investigating "informal statements" [JURIST report] received from ICTY investigators alleging
illegal organ harvesting. The ICTY has not commented officially on the alleged organ
trafficking. DPA has more. Itar-Tass has additional coverage.
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2008/04/dnp-del-ponte-book-promotion.php
Justice of the Peace
by Adam LeBor | March 26, 2009

Cynics argue that because the United Nations was unable to stop the carnage in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, it set
up war crimes tribunals instead, as a kind of humanitarian consolation prize.
What the diplomats did not expect was Carla Del Pontes determination to bring the perpetrators to justice and to end the
culture of impunity. As the attorney general of Switzerland, she had fought against the muro di gomma, the wall of
rubber, that deflected her attempts to stop Mafia money-laundering.
Madame Prosecutor is her account of battling the muro di gomma
across the Balkans, Rwanda and Western capitals.
It is a relentless, sometimes (understandably) angry book, and an important insiders account of the quest for
international justice.
Each of its 13 chapter titles begins with the word Confronting:
"Confronting Ko sovo"
"Confronting Rwandas Genocide" even
"Confronting the Tribunal Bureaucracy"
the heading for a chapter in which she accuses some of her own officials of obstruction and incompetence.
Del Pontes determination to make the Rwanda and Yugoslavia tribunals functioning instruments of international
criminal justice caused consternation. She was a wild card, disrupting diplomacys finely calibrated responses. Yet she
succeeded, at least in part. Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Serbia, was arrested on charges of
genocide and died in his cell at the United Nations detention center in The Hague in 2006. Radovan Karadzic, the
former Bosnian Serb leader, is detained there now and is preparing his defense against charges of genocide.
Del Ponte wrote Madame Prosecutor with Chuck Sudetic, who covered the Yugoslav wars for The New York Times
from 1990 to 1995. Sudetic, a fine reporter and an elegant writer, is the author of Blood and Vengeance, one of
the best books on the former Yugoslavia. Madame Prosecutor is less evocative but is clearly written and
generally well paced, although occasionally the depth of detail, as Del Ponte outlines yet another meeting with
obstructive Serbian or Croatian officials, slows down the narrative.
The books microfocus on her political battles also means it lacks sufficient geo political context. Del Ponte had a
ringside seat at one of the most momentous shifts in international diplomacy in recent history: the setting up of new legal
instruments to bring dictators and war criminals to justice. There are occasional insider snippets, as when, in March
2001, Kofi Annan, then the secretary general of the United Nations, wrote to Del Ponte admonishing her for calling for
economic aid to Yugoslavia to be made conditional on better cooperation with the tribunal. However, the reader is left
wishing that Del Ponte were as indiscreet about her dealings with the superpowers as she is, for example, about her
relations with her own officials.
Only a tiny fraction of Yugoslav war criminals have been indicted.
By the time Del Ponte left her post, at the end of 2007, the tribunal had issued 161 indictments,
mostly concentrating on senior figures. Local courts are now expected to take up the burden.
Some of the horrors chronicled make for grim reading, and one incident in particular haunts long
after the book has been closed.
In February 2007, a protected prosecution witness gave evidence at the trial of seven sen ior
Bosnian Serb army officers, charged with the massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys at
Srebrenica in 1995. The witness had been a driver, delivering food and drink to the executioners as
they lined up their victims and sprayed them with gunfire.
And then, suddenly, the shooting stopped.
A very young boy emerged from the heap of bodies, covered in blood and mangled flesh. He began
walking toward the gunmen, crying for his Babo (father). The soldiers lowered their weapons.
The commanding officer ordered them to shoot the boy, but they refused, telling him to do it
himself. The witness intervened on behalf of the boy:
"All of a sudden he took me by the hand. ...I dont want any one of you to experience that, ...the
grip, the grip of him on my hand, and I was amazed at his strength".
He took the boy to his van and put some music on, while the gunmen returned to their work.
Later in February 2007, another witness testified at the Srebrenica trial. It was the boy (now a young
man) who had crawled out from the pile of corpses.
The Yugoslav tribunal is scheduled to close down by the end of 2011. Meanwhile, in January, the International
Criminal Court in The Hague began its first trial, that of Thomas Lubanga, a former Congolese warlord.
Survivors of Congos horrors have already taken the witness stand. For this, too, Carla Del Ponte deserves
considerable credit.
Adam LeBor is the author of Complicity With Evil: The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide.
[Zaaaanimljivo LeBor je nekako preskochio
"krvavu zhetvu organa na Kosovu".
Dakle ni rechi o "Illegal Organ harvesting-u"???]
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/review/LeBor-t.html?_r=0
Revelations in Carla del Ponte's book
[11. April 2008]
I have written in today's paper "about the revelations from" Carla del Ponte's new book "The
Hunt: Me and War criminals". I wanted to talk to her before writing the piece, but was unable
to get an interview.
Carla del Ponte's book on sale in Rome

Some readers of this blog have already posted snippets of the book in their comments. Most of these excerpts
translated from the original Italianhave come from Serb media outletsperhaps not the most objective source for
a story about Serbs being tortured.
So with the help of our Rome correspondent, Malcolm Moore, I have put together a transcription of the relevant
parts of CdP's book for those interested parties.
In it she reports allegations made by several sources that KLA fighters, at a senior level, had authorised and profited
from an organ-harvesting racket preying on Serbs transported from Kosovo.
It is worth remembering she got the information they provided through UN officials and "trusted journalists" not
from the sources themselves.
Here it is uncut for you to judge:
In a chapter entitled "Kosovo 1999-2007" she writes:
The prosecutors office received information which UNMIK officials had received from a team of
trustworthy journalists that during the summer months of 1999 Kosovan Albanians had transported
300 kidnapped people from Kosovo to Albania.
These prisoners were initially held in sheds and other structures in Kukes and Tropoje [Harry's note -
north-eastern Albania]. According to the journalists' sources, who were only identified as Kosovo
Albanians, some of the younger and fitter prisoners were visited by doctors and were never hit.
They were transferred to other detention camps in Burrel and the neighbouring area, one of which
was a barracks behind a yellow house 20 km behind the town.
One room inside this yellow house, the journalists said, was kitted out as a makeshift operating
theatre, and it was here that surgeons transplanted the organs of prisoners. These organs, according
to the sources, were then sent to Rinas airport, Tirana, to be sent to surgical clinics abroad to be
transplanted to paying patients.
One of the informers had personally carried out a shipment to the airport.
The victims, deprived of a kidney, were then locked up again, inside the barracks, until the moment
they were killed for other vital organs. In this way, the other prisoners in the barracks were aware of
the fate that awaited them, and according to the source, pleaded, terrified to be killed immediately.
Among the prisoners who were taken to these barracks were women from Kosovo, Albania, Russia
and other Slavic countries. Two of the source said that they helped to bury the corpses of the dead
around the yellow house and in a neighbouring cemetery.
According to the sources, the organ smuggling was carried out with the knowledge and active
involvement of middle and high ranking involvement from the KLA.
The tribunal investigators discovered that even if the information for the journalists was tear-jerking,
the details were coherent within themselves and confirmed information directly gathered by the
tribunal.
'The material within [from the office of the court] does not contain specific material from Albania; but
'The material within [from the office of the court] does not contain specific material from Albania; but
a low number of witness statements and other material we have confirms and to a certain extent
amplifies the stated information,' I noted in a memo on this activity.
'All the individuals whom the sources cite as present in the Albanian camps in the summer of 1999
were declared to be lost in the summer of 1999 and had never been seen since then.'
The implications were obvious; 'Given the extremely grave nature of the these cases, the fact that
practically none of the bodies of the victims of the KLA were found in the exhumations in Kosovo and
the fact that these atrocities would have been committed under the supervision or command of the
leadership of the KLA at the medium or high level, they should be investigated in the most thorough
way possible by professional investigators and experts.'
The victims of these cases were probably seized after the end of the NATO air campaign in a period in
which Kosovo was overrun with foreign peacekeepers and legions of investigators and
representatives from Human Right operations. It was not clear whether crimes committed in this arc
of time fell under the mandate of the tribunal.
The prosecutors office should have asked for the names of the sources from the journalists and UNMIK
as well as any other information they had on this case.In a second passage Ms del Ponte goes on to
relate a visit to the alleged organ surgery in Burrel, Albania "a few months" after October 2002,
presumably in early 2003.

She writes:

A few months after [October 2002] the investigators of the tribunal and UNMIK reached central
Albania and the yellow house which the journalists sources had revealed as the place where the
prisoners were killed to transplant their organs. The journalists and the Albanian prosecutor
accompanied the investigators on to the site.
The house was now white. The owner denied it had ever been repainted even though investigators
found traces of yellow along the base of its walls.
Inside the investigators found pieces of gauze, a used syringe and two plastic IV bags encrusted with
mud and empty bottles of medicine, some of which was of a muscle relaxant often used in surgical
operations.
The application of a chemical substance revealed to the scientific team traces of blood on the walls
and on the floor of a room inside the house, except for in a clean area of the floor sized 180x60cm.
The owner offered a variety of explanations for the bloodstains over the course of the two days the
investigators spent in the village.
Initially he said that many years ago his wife had given birth in that room then when his wife said she
had her children elsewhere he asserted that the family had used the building to butcher animals for
a Muslim festival.
It is tempting to draw conclusions from these investigations, combined with the fragmentary
testimony from the journalists. Stories of prisoners killed by organ traffickers circulate in many conflict
areas, but rarely is it possible to find concrete proof which would separate these tales from urban
legend.
The syringes, the iv solution bags, the gauze are clearly material which confirms the tales, but as proof
they are unfortunately insufficient. The investigators were not able to determine whether the traces
they found were of human blood. The sources did not indicated the position of the grave of the
presumed victims and so we did not find the bodies.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/harrydequetteville/3693551/Revelations_in_Carla_del_Pontes_book/

Ex-Hague prosecutor
Alleges Organ Trafficking in Kosovo

13 April 2008

The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kosovo reacted on Friday to a letter from Human
Rights Watch where they were asked to investigate the allegations in Carla Del Pontes book
about alleged organ trafficking in the aftermath of the Kosovo war.
Nekibe Kelmendi, currently Minister of Justice and a reputable Kosovar lawyer, told journalists
in Prishtina that allegation about organ trafficking immediately after the war are pure
fabrications made by Del Ponte or perhaps Serbia herself
Kelmendi stresses that she has met with Carla Del Ponte four times and she never mentioned
these allegations to her. If she knew of such cases then she should be charged with withholding
evidence and hiding these crimes, Kelmendi said. Former Chief Prosecutor of Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Carla Del Ponte, published a book in Italian in the
beginning of this month. Many weeks before the book reached Italian bookshops, it was
available for Serbian journalists who chose to publish selective excerpts that mainly dealt with
Kosovo and the Kosovo Liberation Army.
In the book called The Hunt: Me and War Criminals, Carla Del Ponte claims she had received
information saying Kosovo Albanians were involved in organ trafficking. According to Serb
media, the information provided to Del Ponte alleged three hundred Serbs where kidnapped in
Kosovo and then transported to a remote town in Albania where their organs were removed and
sold to wealthy patients around the world. Del Ponte writes that her subordinates gave up this
case because further investigation could not be implemented.
The allegations have already been sharply denied by former Kosovar and Albanian
officials. Ahmet Isufi, a former KLA commander and now deputy leader of the political
party Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, told journalists that no such crimes were carried
out and that he believed these undocumented allegations were nothing more than political.
He was also quoted as saying:
"The case Del Ponte, if we can speak in the softest terms,
is a case that needs psychiatric treatment"
Earlier this week Swiss authorities decided to stop the promotion of the book and ordered Del
Ponte to return as soon as possible to Argentina where she is Swiss ambassador. Swiss officials
said Del Ponte had included within her book information which an official of the Swiss
government should not be allowed to state publicly.
The allegations have caused fierce reactions among Albanians in both Kosovo and Albania.
Most of the reactions emphasize that Albania does not have any hospital where organ
transplantation can be implemented. They also cannot believe that this could have been kept
secret when the information provided suggests tens or even hundreds of people were involved in
this operation.
A commentator from Tirana writes:
"This madness coming from Del Ponte shocks us. The anti-Albanian hate this woman
has been cultivating puts in doubt her independence and objectivity as Chief Persecutor
when it comes to investigating crimes committed in Kosovo"
Commentators are unanimous that Del Ponte used these undocumented allegations as a
gimmick to sell the book, and they all agree that this is going to be used by Serbs to enforce
the victim mentality promoted by current prime minister of Serbia, Vojislav Kostunica.
It is also claimed that Del Ponte, with these undocumented, sensational allegations, wanted
to shift focus from her failures as Chief Prosecutor to the Kosovo Albanians. During her
time at the ICTY, Carla Del Ponte did not manage to bring to justice Serb war criminals
Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, believed to be the masterminds behind the
Srebrenica massacre where 8 000 Bosnia boys and men were massacred.
The book has also attracted attention in Del Pontes native country, Switzerland. In its Thursday
edition, Neue Zrcher Zeitung reports about the source of these allegations. According to this
Swiss influential newspaper, the allegations are most likely based on an inquiry conducted by a
team of journalists back in 1999. The newspaper claims to know who these journalists are. When
the journalists could not advance further their investigation, they gave up but at the same time
informed ICTY.
Pandeli Majko, Albanian Prime Minister during the Kosovo war, reacted with disbelief while
talking to the newspaper and explained that he never had information about something like this
happening after the war.
The newspaper criticizes Del Ponte for publishing these unproven allegations and goes on with
saying that Del Ponte has created a Frankenstein myth that will circulate in the Balkans for a
long time.
There is scepticism about the accuracy of these claims also among experts on the Balkans
and the ICTY.
Mirko Klarin, an authority on the tribunal and Balkan war crimes at the Institute for War
and Peace Reporting, described Del Ponte's allegations
"as irresponsible and appalling.

...This is more journalistic than prosecutorial.
She shouldn't put rumours in her book".
Serb human rights activist, Natasa Kandic, says
"allegations of organ-smuggling are rumours
I talked to [Del Ponte] many times,
she never told me about this" said Kandic to Daily Telegraph.

http://newkosovareport.com/20080413864/Society/Ex-Hague-prosecutor-alleges-organ-trafficking-in-
Kosovo.html

Natashino "shuskanje" [rumors]
"Nata!a Kandi" had sent the Office of the
Prosecutor a published report indicating that 593
personsSerbs, Montenegrins, Roma, and Slavic
Muslimshad either disappeared or were abducted
after June 12, 1999, the day the NATO-led
international peacekeeping force, KFOR, deployed in
Kosovo, and were still missing on December 31,
2000.
Several aspects of these disappearances were strange, and
suggested that they were not simply acts of post-conflict
vengeance. Most of the disappearances had taken place in
districts where there had been no large-scale violence by
Serbian forces against Kosovo Albanians during the NATO air
campaign.
Dozens of Yugoslav Army soldiers had also
disappeared during the bombing and
contemporaneous fighting against the KLA.
Additionally, more than 1,500 Albanians disappeared
after the KLA had taken them into custody during
the bombing; and more than three hundred Albanians
had disappeared in the second half of 1999 and in
2000" []
Carla Del Ponte [p.204] "Madame Prosecutor
[confrontations with Humanitys Worst criminals and the Culture of impunity]"
by Carla Del Ponte, Chuck Sudetic [2011]
[ili na 3coj strani poglavlja "Confronting Kosovo - 1999 to 2007",
u posebnom PDF-u koji vam shaljem]
From: dr <nula.nemostersterster@gmail.com>
Subject: "Allegations of organ-smuggling are rumours" Serb human rights activist, Natasa Kandic
Date: July 27, 2014 11:23:00 PM GMT+02:00

Probe urged
into 'missing Serbs'

Human Rights Watch has called for an investigation into claims
that ethnic Albanians in Kosovo Abducted and Killed
Serbs, and may have Sold Their Organs.

The claims involve about 400 Serbs who went missing
after the war in 1999.

The rights group says new information has come to light, some of it in a book by former UN war
crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte.
But Albanian PM Sali Berisha said the claims were like "an Agatha Christie novel" and had been
investigated.
Kosovo's assembly is due to convene in the coming weeks to discuss whether to sue Ms Del
Ponte for allegedly tarnishing the image of Kosovo.

'Organs removed'

Ms Del Ponte said in her book that she had learned from "credible journalists" that organs were being
sold.
She said the sources had told her that between 100 and 300 mostly Serb civilians
were taken from Kosovo into Albania, where "doctors extracted the captives' "doctors extracted the captives'
internal organs". internal organs".
At the time UN and Nato forces were being deployed to Kosovo as the war between Serbian forces and
separatists was ending.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said it had reviewed investigations carried out at
the time, and that it believed the allegations that Serbs were abducted were
"serious and credible".
Fred Abrahams, senior emergencies researcher with HRW, called on Kosovo and Albania to "show their
commitment to justice and the rule of law by conducting proper investigations".
He added that the particular Allegations of Organ Trafficking were "suggestive "suggestive
but far from complete" but far from complete".

But Mr Berisha said:
"There has been a clear investigation by both national and international "There has been a clear investigation by both national and international
prosecutors and they have found no evidence." prosecutors and they have found no evidence."
He added:
"Carla Del Ponte never presented an official request to my government on the "Carla Del Ponte never presented an official request to my government on the
matter" matter"

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/7384679.stm

Published: 2008/05/06

Madame Prosecutor
[confrontations with Humanitys Worst criminals and the Culture of impunity]
by Carla Del Ponte, Chuck Sudetic [2011]

Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland's attorney general when she
pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the United Nations' call to
become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
and for Rwanda. In her new role, Del Ponte confronted genocide and crimes against humanity
head-on, struggling to bring to justice the highest-ranking individuals responsible for massive
acts of violence in Rwanda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Kosovo.
These tribunals have been unprecedented.
They operate along the edge of the divide between national sovereignty and international
responsibility, in the gray zone between the judicial and the political, a largely unexplored realm
for prosecutors and judges. It is a realm whose native inhabitantspolitical leaders and
diplomats, soldiers and spiesassume that they can commit the big crime without being held
culpable. It is a realm crisscrossed by what Del Ponte calls the muro di gomma"the wall of
rubber"a metaphor referring to the tactics government officials use to hide their unwillingness
to confront the culture of impunity that has allowed persons responsible for acts of
unspeakable, wholesale violence to escape accountability.
Madame Prosecutor is Del Ponte's courageous and startling memoir of her eight years spent
striving to serve justice.