Neither Del Ponte nor Marty: The confession of these two Americans led to the Special Court (Video)

There were hundreds of people who had disappeared after the war [in Kosovo], whose troops had never been found. That was a fact and remains a fact to this day.

I think today the Kosovo war is clearly forgotten. Many things have happened, the September 11 attacks, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though it was a hot topic at the time.

Our team went to Kosovo, shortly after the war, Stephen Smith and I, Michael Montgomery, broadcast Periscope.

We wanted to concentrate on a village that had been the scene of a terrible massacre carried out by Serb paramilitary forces. We made the anatomy a war crime that had been committed to Kosovo Albanians.

But what we found on the way, and remember that we're only talking about a month after the war, crimes had stopped. What we were finding after the war after Serbian military forces had been expelled from Kosovo, and Albanians had returned to their homes in Kosovo was that there were crimes that were being committed, not by Serbs, but by Albanians, Kakot Kakot.

At the time, these crimes were viewed as revenge crimes. There were Serbs and other minority members disappearing. And the claims were that they were disappearing into the hands of the KLA people.

What we found was that many of the people who had disappeared were actually alive. They were kidnapped. We speculated that the KLA was seeking compensation or that was seeking to free its soldiers from the Serbs. But that wasn't happening.

So we started hearing words about Serbs being kidnapped, put in trucks, and fled along the border with Albania.

But why?

If this was an act of revenge, why did you have to tire of keeping it alive and carrying it across the border? There was risk and cost to this job,

And this is where the confession got really weird.

The soldiers had taken orders not to mistreat the kidnapped. When they were taken to the other side of the border, there were doctors.

After medical examinations, they would be sent to another location and killed to get the kidneys from their bodies. These kidneys would then be sold on the illegal organ market.

And we know that this industry in Istanbul in Turkey was then prospering. People came from Israel, from the Middle East and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for these kidneys.

Looks like absolute science fiction!

We met a man. He was a young Albanian man who had been to the KLA with the intention of gaining independence from Serbia.

He was charged with driving two Serbs from one safe area to another within Albania. These two Serbs had asked the KLA soldier to kill them so the bodies would not end up at the KLA.

This soldier of The KLA had accepted because it was scratched by this. He asked us for nothing, neither money nor women.

And so we went back looking for details. We ended up at a house in Middle Albania, later called the Yellow House.

We managed to get the location, and one day I went there. I went with an Albanian driver and an interpreter.

Our car broke down just a few miles from the village. We decided to walk knowing that very bad things had happened. We walked through that poor area, on the dirt road, and saw our home.

In the vicinity was a very small store that sold cold drinks. We stopped there, but immediately we were surrounded by villagers. They're asking us things. I realized that we were not feeling safe in that situation if I told you I was a journalist or why I was there.

I didn't feel safe.

The road ended at the Yellow House, and I told them that I was looking to connect the road to the mountain. We're safe!

So we handed our report to the UN, thinking that our data would help.

They gathered a group of experts and went to the House. So, I went with Steven Smith.

Within hours of tracking in the Yellow House, the team managed to find some interesting things.

And then they found traces of blood in the living room. When the team leader began to ask family members about the blood, they said controversial things. But in the middle of that room, it seemed that blood was not just in a table form that could have been used to remove the organs from the victims.

On the way back, a group of villagers met us and blocked us. We were clearly told that nothing had happened and that they did not want to see us again.

Our evidence was ignored by no one and destroyed it.

But then in her memoaries, with our evidence, Mrs. Carla Del Ponte.

And, after Carla Del Ponte, Dick Marty came and later the Kosovo Specialised Chambers in The Hague. /Periscope