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Tanjug News Agency
March 27, 2008
"Del Ponte received data on mass graves"
BELGRADE - The former head of the Coordinating Center
for Kosovo has stepped into the row over mass graves
and prisons in Kosovo.
Nebojsa Covic said that seven years ago, Serbian
authorities presented the Hague Prosecution a list of
locations of potential mass graves and secret prisons
in Kosovo and northern Albania.
In an interview with Serbian Radio Television (RTS),
Covic said that they had never received a reply from
former Hague Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte
concerning the material the Serbian security services
had prepared.
“The only answer was that KFOR did not want to
cooperate, that some data had been lost when the first
contingent of KFOR troops had left Kosovo, and that
UNMIK refused to cooperate, which I was also assured
of,” he said.
Covic said that Del Ponte had never raised that issue,
and said that the fact that she had mentioned the case
in her book “Hunt - Me and War Criminals” represented
an attempt at “biography laundering.”
The former coordinator believed that, by doing so, she
was trying “to solve the problems linked to her guilty
conscience,” and that it was probably some kind of a
marketing move to boost sales of her book.
In the book, Del Ponte says that Hague Tribunal
investigators and UNMIK officials received information
that in the summer of 1999, Kosovo Albanians had put
over 300 hostages in trucks and transported them
across the border to northern Albania, where their
organs were taken out and sold.
In an interview with Frankfurt News yesterday, former
Hague Tribunal spokeswoman Florence Hartmann said that
Covic could confirm Del Ponte’s claims because, she
stressed, he had been present when she had asked for
the information.
Hartmann added that the former prosecutor had tried to
push the inquiry forward, but that UNMIK had not
cooperated.
....
The Belgrade District Court’s War Crimes Chamber has
received an application to launch an investigation to
corroborate claims of possible war crimes and the sale
of human organs in 1999, the Court confirmed
yesterday.
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