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The most serious crimes, which have been linked to the infamous KLA group in Drenica for more than a decade, whose key people Hashim Thaci and Kadri Veseli are now in custody, is undoubtedly the case of human organ trafficking, known as the ” yellow house”. In addition to the two of them, Agim Ceku, Sulejman Selimi and Xhavid Haliti, as well as others in the chain of command who are suspected of participating in these events, must not avoid justice.
Complaints about these crimes, reported by Swiss Senator Dick Marty in 2010, were the reason for the establishment of specialized judicial institutions in Kosovo transferred to The Hague. Marty indicted Thaci and the former KLA command, but no one has yet been held responsible for the crimes committed against more than 300 Serbs. According to the indictment brought against Hashim Thaci and the KLA high command, the Hague prosecutor, Jack Smith, found no evidence of the “yellow house”, although his team investigated in detail the hitherto unknown crimes committed in northern Albania , in areas to which the Serbian prosecution did not have access. .
Following the accusations in the book by former Hague prosecutor Carla del Ponte, the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office has been working for years to gather evidence in the “yellow house” case. The information they obtained was handed over to international investigation teams. Testimonies about kidnapping, internment in a makeshift hospital, secret operations for the removal of vital organs and traces of those crimes found in the house where other people now live were also made public, but the prosecution teams did not consider the evidence of the procedure.
Two years ago, a previously unknown report from 2003 was published, in which eight Albanians, members of the KLA, testified about the trafficking of human organs in Kosovo. This document, as “Politika” wrote at the time, was known to the Court in The Hague for 15 years.
It is about the report on the visit of the head of the investigation department of the Hague Tribunal, Patrick López Teresa, and his meeting with the director of the UNMIK justice department and his conversation with eight witnesses. It claims that four witnesses were directly involved in the transport of at least 90 Serbs to illegal prisons in central and northern Albania. Three of them were delivering prisoners to a clinic south of Burel. Two witnesses claim to have participated in the transport of body parts and organs to the Rinas airport, near Tirana.
All transportation and surgical procedures were carried out with the knowledge and participation of KLA officers, as well as doctors from Kosovo and abroad, and with the support of people from the Albanian secret police, under the control of former Prime Minister Sali Berisha.
The authors of the report claim that everything was done in the organization of the Albanian services, as well as in the service headed by Kadri Veseli, that is, it was a joint effort of the Drenica group of the KLA and the Albanian authorities. The dead people were buried in Albania.
In 2012, the Serbian prosecution came across a witness, a former KLA member, who spoke about the organ harvesting operations. All of Serbia heard his story about how the heart of a young Serbian was taken out to sell on the black market. The man received protection from the Serbian police and his testimony was made available to international teams.
The human organ trafficking case also attracted teams of independent journalists, from whose reports the public learned dire details about the events of the “yellow house” in northern Albania, which was later painted white. Medicines and equipment were found in it, confirming that there were surgical procedures. Traces of blood were also found in two places. The housemates affirm that they come from the slaughter of cattle or, as they said, the birth of one of the housewives. All these traces were destroyed in 2005 by order of the then Court of The Hague.
The transcript of the program by BBC journalist Nick Thorpe, who turned to eyewitnesses to crimes against Serbs, was added to the files of the “yellow house” case, which “Politika” knew once. The show posted a conversation with a man who was abused at the KLA base in the border town of Kukes.
“I saw a lot of things, I saw them beating people, stabbing them with knives.” I saw people in bulletproof suits and then shoot them to see if the suits were really impenetrable, “said a witness.
Another said the three prisoners were taken to a private home near Kukes, where they were greeted by doctors.
“When we brought the first group from Kosovo to Burelj, I heard that the doctors were examining them and taking blood samples. They were careful not to beat or harass them. That was completely inexplicable. Who else would be concerned about their health?” Later, I heard that these prisoners, or maybe their kidneys, were transported to the airport and then transferred to Turkey, “the man said.
The most infamous places in the occupied territories, where the Drenica de Thaci group imprisoned and killed the kidnapped Serbs, are considered the Likovac camp in the Srbica municipality, Lapusnik in the Glogovac municipality, Zociste in the Orahovac and Glodjane municipality in the municipality of Decani.
According to data from 1998, 26 people were transferred to Likovac, including 10 miners from the Belaćevac mine. About forty prisoners were taken to Lapusnik, about thirty to Zočište, and mostly to Glođane, about 60. During 1999, that number increased to 500 people. They were tortured and killed, and some were transferred to Albania, where their organs were removed. One of the main pieces of evidence against Thaci and his group Drenica presented to the team of Clint Williamson, head of the EULEX organ trafficking investigation team in Kosovo, is a video from the Likovac camp, showing four members of the group. kidnapped Serbs from the occupied territories.
According to the prosecution, Drenica was a part of the Thaci clan. The most famous people in the KLA come from that area. Groups 112, 113 and 114 from the Drenica area included 1,500 uniformed and permanently engaged KLA members. They practiced guerrilla warfare: killing, kidnapping, planting explosive devices, and wounding civilians and members of the army and police.
After the war, Thaci was, according to Marty’s report, designated as the head of a mafia organization that controls the heroin and weapons trade.
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