UNMIK sends "yellow house" report

Source: B92, Beta
BELGRADE -- The UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, has sent its complete report on the co-called yellow house in northern Albania.

War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević has also received additional documents related to the probe.

The Serbian prosecution believes that the house in question was used as a venue for surgical removal of the kidnapped Kosovo Serbs' organs.

Hundreds of them are believed to have been abducted by ethnic Albanians and taken to northern Albania during and after the 1999 war in the province, where their organs were harvested to be sold in the black market.

The prosecution told Beta news agency this Sunday in Belgrade that UNMIK notified Vukčević that, after a detailed review, additional material was found.

UNMIK investigated the claims in 2004. The Serbian prosecution said last year that several pages were missing from the original report.

The documents sent to Belgrade consist of ten appendixes, one of them being the complete "yellow house report" that the prosecution saw earlier.

Vukčević was also notified that any investigation into the alleged human organ trafficking is now within the jurisdiction of the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, which has been informed about the War Crimes Prosecution's demands.

The prosecution has so far, based on the photographs it has, managed to indentify ten possible executors and one victim: Kosovo Serb civilian Predrag Dragović, a resident of Peć.

It is also believed that besides the yellow house, three more locations, also in the north of Albania, were used to commit the same crime.

Serbia started the investigation a year ago, after the allegations were mentioned in former Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte book's "The Hunt".

Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty is also conducting an investigation into the reports. According to previous announcements, he is due to arrive here at the end of March.