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Titolo: Investigation sought of alleged Kosovo war crimes

Investigation sought of alleged Kosovo war crimes
Human Rights Watch asks Albania and Kosovo to examine reports that about
400 Serbs were abducted in 1999. A new book says some of them may have
been killed and their organs removed and sold.
By Tracy Wilkinson
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 6, 2008
ROME — A leading human rights group on Monday urged the governments of
Albania and the self-declared state of Kosovo to investigate horrific
allegations about the kidnapping and abuse of Serb civilians after the
NATO-led war that drove Serbian forces from Kosovo.
The allegations involve about 400 Serbs who went missing after the war,
which ended in June 1999. At that time, Kosovo Albanians were gaining
power, backed by the United Nations and the U.S.
Human Rights Watch, in calling for an investigation, cited new
information, some of it contained in a controversial book written and
released last month by the former lead war crimes prosecutor for the
Balkans, Carla Del Ponte.
According to Del Ponte and other accounts presented to the war crimes
tribunal at The Hague, several hundred Serbs were abducted in Kosovo and
transported across the province's southern border to Albania. Some were
beaten. Their fates have remained undetermined and many are thought to
have been killed.
In letters sent April 4 to the governments of Albania and Kosovo, Human
Rights Watch said Del Ponte presented "circumstantial evidence . . .
sufficiently grave to warrant further investigation."
As of Monday, neither Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci nor Albanian
Prime Minister Sali Berisha had responded, said Fred Abrahams, a senior
Balkans investigator for the New York-based human rights watchdog, as the
group made its appeal public.
Among the most incendiary of the allegations contained in Del Ponte's
book, published in Italian and titled "The Hunt: War Criminals and Me," is
the claim that doctors removed the internal organs of some of the captives
after they were transported to Albania. The organs were then shipped
abroad, she asserted.
Abrahams said information on organ trafficking "is suggestive but far from
complete."
He recounted a 2004 inquiry conducted by tribunal officials and a team
from the United Nations at a house in Albania that Del Ponte's informants
had identified as the site of the organ removals. The investigation found
traces of blood and syringes, drip bags and other equipment used in
surgery.
But officials did not deem that evidence to be conclusive. The
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, which is the
formal name of the court at The Hague, said last month amid the furor over
the Del Ponte book that the court did not have sufficient evidence to
substantiate the organ-trafficking allegations.
Albanian and Kosovo officials, while not responding to Monday's statement
by the rights group, have previously blasted Del Ponte's allegations as
libelous and unfounded. The Serbian government, by contrast, has sought to
launch its own investigation.
Abrahams stressed that the disappearances remained the most pressing
issue. An estimated 1,500 ethnic Albanians and more than 500 Serbs remain
missing from the war; most of the Serbs disappeared after the fighting
ended.
Copyright 2008 Los Angeles Times 
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