[GAB-1955]

Are there any corroborating stories? Or is this propaganda. The Serbians have a case for at least formal retention of Kosovo without bringing up the “Albanians are scum” argument. That only weakens Serbia's support around the world.

[FormerLib]

This is not the first story to document what has happened to the missing Serbs of Kosovo nor will it be the last.

[montyspython]

Dude, where are your reading and comprehension skills? This is from Carla Del Ponte’s book, are you claiming that she is a Serbian propagandist now? What is it with you people, brain fart Friday?

[MadelineZapeezda]

That only weakens Serbia's support around the world.

Weakens? wtf????

[joan]

Carla del Ponte was working for a NATO country set-up and funded court and she was in general anti-Serb. Her investigations in Kosovo though and frustration with the UN there would mean contacts with them and not Serbs. The parts of Kosovo investigated for crimes against Serbs (and also claims of them being taken to northern Albania and other parts of Albania) would probably have involved talk from UN people and Albanians as no Serbs are living in those areas and Serbs have no access either. So I think a few people with a conscious and troubled by it (both Albanians and international official/police) perhaps had some reports or witnessing of this. I don't think they'd speak of such things if they were merely rumors, and the Serbs who survived and fled wouldn't have a clue what happened to their relatives or what transpired - unless by miracle a few of the captured Serbs escaped.

It's possible there could be evidence on any recovered remains and bodies of organs missing, but I doubt these bodies would have been returned - and if so they'd probably be just bones or deteriorated to bad to find signs of what happened.

[Hoplite]

Are there any corroborating stories?

That's the problem with the Balkans - stories are often just that.

In the aftermath of 9/11, the authorities in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, looked to capitalize on the attack and thus sent Interpol a fax requesting an investigation into whether Mohammed Atta was in Bakotic (Bosnia) in 1999.

The simple fact that Interpol's investigation could find no evidence of Atta being anywhere near Bosnia was irrelevant as soon as the "Atta in Bosnia!" stories started to appear, and it was even introduced by Milosevic during his trial at the ICTY - in the form of a copy of the fax sent to Interpol by the Bosnian Serbs.

The same thing occurred in the immediate aftermath of the bombings in London and Madrid, though by that time the unwilling Western participants in the Serb's propaganda schemes had had enough of it and it cost the Republika Srpska's police chief his job.

It will be interesting to see where this leads, and whom Del Ponte identifies as the source of the allegations.