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May 1, 2008

Is New Probe Into Kosovo Organ-Trafficking Claims Justified?

SARAJEVO and BELGRADE (IWPR) - Allegations that Kosovo Albanian militants killed captives and sold their organs abroad have prompted calls for the claims to be investigated further, but IWPR enquiries suggest there is insufficient new evidence on which a new case could be based. Serbia has raised the temperature by opening an investigation, after the account of organ trafficking and murder appeared in Carla Del Ponte’s memoirs, “The Hunt: War Criminals and Me”, published in April.

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