John Clint Williamson

UNSC backs war crimes court for Kosovo

NEW YORK -- A UN Security Council meeting to present UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s regular quarterly report on the situation in Kosovo was held late on Friday.

An agreement was reached that a special court for war crimes committed in KiM should be set up as soon as possible, Tanjug reported.

NEW YORK – A UN Security Council meeting to present UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s ’regular quarterly report on the situation in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) was held late on Friday in New York, and an agreement was reached that a special court for war crimes committed in KiM should be set up as soon as possible.

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.

BELGRADE - Carla Del Ponte, former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), says she would return to The Hague to bring an indictment against certain individuals in the top levels in the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leadership.

BELGRADE - The results that Lead Prosecutor John Clint Williamson's investigation has yielded so far show that after the conflict in Kosovo a campaign of persecution was conducted against Serbs, Roma and other minority populations, as well as against the Kosovo Liberation Army's (KLA) political opponents, the Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC) in Kosovo noted on Wednesday.

STRASBOURG - President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Anne Brasseur has welcomed a report by special prosecutor John Clint Williamson concerning an investigation into the 1999 Kosovo organ trafficking case, expressing satisfaction that “truth’s onward march continues also in this case.”

BELGRADE - Dusan Janjic, president of Active Serbia and political analyst, expects that several hundred members of the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), including several former commanders of that paramilitary unit, will be prosecuted in the future on suspicion that they committed war crimes.

BRUSSELS - John Clint Williamson, chief prosecutor for the EULEX Special Investigative Task Force responsible for an investigation into the allegations concerning the human organ trafficking in Kosovo-Metohija in 1999, said in Brussels on Tuesday that no sufficient evidence has been found that organs were forcibly harvested from the people abducted in Kosovo in 1999, but that there is evidence

Organ trafficking investigator to publish statement

BELGRADE -- The chief prosecutor of EULEX for alleged human organ trafficking in Kosovo and Albania in 1999 will issue a statement on the findings of the investigation.

"Special court for Kosovo crimes to be set up in Hague"

BRUSSELS -- Those accused of organ harvesting and trafficking will be tried before a special court in The Hague and not in Priština as sought by the Kosovo government.

This was reported by Tanjug, which said it learned this from diplomatic sources in Brussels.