The chief prosecutor appointed to a specialist court in The Hague investigating the alleged trafficking of human organs during the Kosovo war has said he will follow any evidence that is uncovered. The Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a separate branch of the Kosovo court system, will have its headquarters in The Hague, the Dutch city home to the world’s main international tribunals. The court’s jurisdiction covers claims raised by a 2011 Council of Europe report into allegations of inhuman treatment of people and illicit trafficking in human organs in Kosovo. The report claimed that members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) removed organs from prisoners, many of them ethnic Serbs, held in Albania. The president of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, a wartime leader of the KLA, has dismissed the allegations as “baseless” .

Source: The Guardian September 16, 2016 11:37 UTC