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Agim Ceku, Kosovo’s former prime minister and a former commander of Kosovo’s Liberation Army, KLA, told a Montenegrin TV that he did not know of any organised trade in human organs harvested from kidnapped Kosovo Serbs, referring to such claims as ”biased”.
“These are such monstrous accusations that they deserve a detailed investigation and they deserve that we all take part in it and say what we know. Personally, I know nothing, and personally I can’t believe that something like that happened. But, let an investigation show,” he said.
Allegations that Kosovo Albanians were smuggling organs from kidnapped Serbs first surfaced a few years ago, and gained momentum when former Chief Prosecutor at the International Tribunal of the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY, Carla Del Ponte published a book in which she claims that investigators had evidence that ethnic Albanian guerrillas kidnapped hundreds of Serbs during and after the 1999 conflict, transported them across the border to northern Albania, where their vital organs were removed to be sold in the black market.
Since the book was published there have been calls for both Kosovo’s and Albania’s government to start an open investigation under international supervision into the allegations, a demand that has been rejected.
In his interview, Ceku then said that he “did not commit, did not see, and does not know of crimes in Kosovo”, but added that “if there were any, they were individual cases, which happened only after the war was over”. He said Del Ponte’s allegations are ”biased”.
“She was pretty frustrated with the KLA. I think she had no reason, but she was interested to make as many accusations against the KLA as possible. I think she was biased in her work,” said Ceku.
