Williamson: Our work was impartial

BRUSSELS - A cloud of doubt surrounding the crimes in Kosovo will only be cleared after court proceedings are complete, special investigator John Clint Williamson said in an exclusive interview with Tanjug on Saturday.

Williamson spoke with the Tanjug correspondent on the last day of his term in office as the chief prosecutor for the EULEX Special Investigative Task Force (SITF). For more than three years, Williamson investigated the allegations of crimes against civilians committed after the conflict in Kosovo, contained in the report by Council of Europe (CoE) rapporteur Dick Marty.

I think we have done much to shed light on the allegations in the Marty Report, and that our investigation was successful, but the court should have the final say, said Williamson at the SITF headquarters in Brussels.

The SITF prosecutor informed the public about the results of the investigation at a press conference in Brussels last month, and stated that sufficient evidence was found to indict several commanders of the former (paramilitary ethnic Albanians' Kosovo Liberation Army) KLA for ethnic cleansing and systematic terror acts against the Serb, Roma and other minorities in 1999 and 2000.

The names of the indictees, however, will not be made public until a specialist court is in place. The court will formally be a part of the Kosovo legal system but the judges sitting on the court will be international and it will be set up outside the territory of Kosovo, most likely in the Netherlands.

Commenting on the most controversial part of the Marty Report, related to the organ harvesting from kidnapped civilians in the 'Yellow House' in Albania, Williamson says that he personally believes that such crimes occurred but that no...

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