Kosovo leaders denied on Wednesday claims that Kosovo Albanians abducted and killed hundred of Serbs and sold their organs near the end of the 1999 Kosovo war, which were revealed in a recently published memoir by former UN war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte.
Kosovo's President Fatmir Sejdiu described Del Ponte's claims as street defamation.
"Kosovo Liberation war was fair, and I believe in the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) and Kosovo people war," said Sejdiu.
The Kosovo government denied these claims, too.
"We suspect these speculations were made for political and financial purposes," said Deputy Prime Minister Hajredin Kuqi, adding that investigations have shown that suspicions have no basis.
In her book, "The Hunt: Me and the War Criminals," published in early April in Italy, Del Ponte claimed that in the closing days of the Kosovo conflict, between 100 and 300 mostly Serbs were kidnapped by Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas and transported to neighboring Albania where doctors extracted captives' organs. UN prosecutors investigated the case in 2002 and 2003 but no evidences were found.
Hundreds of Serbs and ethnic Albanians are still missing from Kosovo's 1998-99 war.
Human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) fueled Monday on this sensitive issue for Kosovo, requesting from the governments in Kosovo and Albania to initiate serious independent investigations over these allegations.
The HRW sent letters to prime ministers in Pristina and Tirana, Hashim Thaci and Sali Berisha, saying they have new evidences to back up allegations.
The Kosovo parliament will convene next week to discuss whether to indict Del Ponte for damaging Kosovo's image.
Source:Xinhua
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