Several dozen Serbs were allegedly murdered for their organs that were sold on the international black market, according to the report that also implicated Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, a guerilla leader at the time of the conflict.
[Note: This article was originally posted on January 18th, 2012. The IFNM website was attacked by hackers and many articles are now gone from the archives. As a public service, IFNM is now reposting said articles.]
Serbia wants a U.N.-mandated investigation into the alleged murder of ethnic-Serb captives by organ traffickers during the Kosovo conflict, Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said.
The Balkan nation has faced resistance in its efforts to investigate killings described in a report by the 47-nation Council of Europe, Jeremic said at a conference in Belgrade today, without specifying the obstacles. Only the United Nations Security Council can give “a universal mandate” and adequate jurisdiction for a full probe, he said.
“Fostering international support for a genuinely impartial and transparent criminal investigation into allegations of the harvesting and smuggling of human organs” in the 1998-1999 war is among Serbia’s foreign policy priorities, Jeremic said.
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