In 2008, three weeks after Kosovo’s declaration of independence, Carla Del Ponte, a past prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, published a book, Hunt: Me and the War Criminals, which had an incendiary effect. In response to her book, media reports focused on one claim: that the Kosovo Liberation Army was a “joint criminal enterprise that had abducted more than 300 Serbs, Roma, Albanians and people from other ethnic groups from whom vital organs were removed and sold to clinics abroad.” These allegations mobilized all parties who were involved in denouncing NATO’s military intervention against Serbia.

Unfortunately, people were all too willing to accept Ponte’s indictment at face value. In my book, I hope to provide an analysis of the specific historical context from which these accusations emerged and explain how, why, and by whom the human organ trafficking affair was contrived.

Excellency Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
U. S. Department of State
2201C Street, NW
Washington, D. C. 20520
U. S. A.

Your Excellency,
On behalf of the Albanian-American Community, please allow us to take the opportunity to express our deep concerns about the serious situation of the Ethnic Albanians in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
This situation is becoming unbearable and is threatening to spread on a daily basis.
With Your permission, we state some of the facts:
On February 28 of this year, in the town of Gostivar, two young ethnic Albanians were murdered by the Macedonian police. Although the official reason by the Internal Ministry of the Government of Macedonia was given as parking violation, an investigation was opened, but as far as we know, no further action has been taken.