“UNMIK hides organ trafficking data”

TIRANA, Dec 16 – A Belgrade daily newspaper has written that an international forensic report on the alleged kidnapping of Kosovo Serbs and harvesting of their organs was missing nine pages.
The report on the so-called yellow house in Albania, thought to have been the location where the victims’ organs were removed, was compiled in 2004, the daily Blic said.
Albania has strongly denied the charge.
A representative of the Serbian War Crimes Prosecution travelled to New York last week to ask UN peacekeeping operations chief Alain le Roy to provide him with the complete report written by a group of international investigators.
The document was submitted in mid-June 2004 by a five-member UNMIK forensic team, who traveled to the yellow house in the town of Burrel in Albania.
The allegations that Serbs were killed for their organs first surfaced earlier this year in a book, “The Hunt: War Criminals and Me,” written by former U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte.
Del Ponte wrote that she had heard allegations that some 300 people, mostly Serbs, were transported in 1999 by Kosovar guerillas to Albania, where they disappeared. According to the allegations, some of them were killed so their organs could be removed, she wrote.
Del Ponte said her team looked into the allegations but was unable to complete an investigation and gather enough evidence for a trial.
Albania and Kosovo have denied the allegations.