Double standards: Russia blocked Dick Martyt's report on Cecenya, spurred investigation against Kosovo

The former Swiss prosecutor Dick Marty's report included allegations that the KLA had committed crimes, until organ trafficking.

The Council of Europe assembly had launched procedures establishing an investigative task force, where responsibility was given to EULEX.

However, such reports this Assembly had already approved, even drafted, by Dick Marty. But unlike Kosovo, similar investigations never occurred.

The Swiss senator had recorded Chechen rights violations from Russia, including murder, extinction and torture. Russian deputies in Assembly even voted the report, but its implementation was never realized.

This is confirmed by the letter that in 2010, the human rights organisation sent it to the Council of Europe.

Unfortunately, following the resolution's adoption, the human rights situation in the region has not improved and there have been no concrete investigations. It is essential that the momentum created by Dick Marty's report not be lost and implemented in practice, said the organisation's letter.

The Council of Europe continued to deal with violations in the area led by Russian power. Senator Michael NcNamara's 2017 report confirmed that crime there was not being investigated, as requested.

“The special investigative units created to examine cases where the Court had failed in the investigation have yielded little results”, written in the next report in 2017.

For these double standards, RTK also asked the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

The Assembly resolutions are implemented by international organisations and institutions, including courts, and are often followed by local authorities, in particular the Parliaments. Reaction to approved individual texts may vary depending on various factors”, the Assembly said.

The other reason is that Marty's report on Chechnya does not require court creation.

Mr. Raport. Marty on the situation in the Northern Caucasus did not suggest the creation of an institution/trial to address the identified and alleged human rights violations, because these are under the jurisdiction of the European Court for Human Rights”, the Assembly said further.

But, the request to establish a court, had not even had in Marty's Kosovo report. However, this was initiated by the Council of Europe's own Assembly.

In 2014 Clinton Williams had released the report, stressing that they have found evidence to establish charges. But he stressed that they could never find evidence of organ trafficking.

As a result of Dick Marty's report that was initiated by Russian deputy Konstantin Kosachev in 2015 Kosovo founded Specialised Chambers in The Hague.

Former KLA members and leaders are currently being tried there on charges of war crimes.