Dick Marty's report. Rama letter to KiE leaders: Remove the stain of human organ trafficking on our nation

Rama has made the letter public through a post in “Facebook”, where it writes that this letter was signed yesterday and sent to all of the KiE leaders, bringing the debate to remove accusations against Kosovo at another stage.

Full letter:

I/Dear...
I hope this letter finds you well. I am writing to ask your attention on a fundamental matter, not just for the country and the people I represent, but for all of us. This issue has to do with justice and human rights, fundamental values based on any democratic system that we honor in our daily work and that are increasingly threatened in the current political situation.
As you may know, in 2008, a former prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ( G NPIJ), Carla Del Ponte, published her book with memories, “Prosecutor's Office”. There, it claimed Kosovo Liberation Army members had committed terrible crimes, including, above all, the rampant trafficking of human organs.

Its charges were strongly denied in Albania, Kosovo and elsewhere in the region, for the simple reason that investigations carried out over several years by the chief UN prosecutor, including Albania, had been completely unconvincing. This should have sufficed to close the case where it had begun - on the pages of a nonletar fiction. On the contrary, it was further taken by others, namely by members of the party “United Russia's” on the Council of Europe, which instrumentalised it to further feed the Russian narrative on Kosovo. Later, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe was presented with a report (again, without evidence). Given the report and the seriousness of the charges, in January 2011, the Assembly adopted Resolution 1782, titled “Probing charges of inhuman treatment of persons and trafficking of human organs in Kosovo”.
Eleven years later, all efforts to investigate since then, nationally, in the region or internationally, to prove claims on human organ trafficking have succeeded in proving what was known: there is absolutely no evidence, whether in Albania or elsewhere in the region, of extraction and organ trafficking, which could be charged even as a member of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Moreover, the charges submitted by Specialised Chambers in The Hague contain not a single word regarding the alleged extraction and trafficking of human organs.

As strange as that sounds, no facts, no authors, no victims of human organ trafficking. The report and the resolution followed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe were based more on speculation than on fact, on rumors that circulated instead of evidence. They have already become an undeserved blemish of those who have been falsely charged and in a shame for international politics.

On October 13th, 2022, I presented these arguments to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to call for the drafting of a following report. The issue is of utmost importance, not only to protect the rights of individuals falsely accused of crimes they have never committed. It has not simply to do with protecting the legal process through court procedures, a regular process that should be fair and flawed. But it has to do with the citizens of my country, Albania, who continue to be the target of dangerous and groundless stereotypes like this one and victims of hostility and xenophobia that such accusations fuel. It is also about truth and justice, without which the very integrity and credibility of international policy and its institutions are undermined.

To your knowledge, I am connecting you with a copy of my word held before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, as well as a copy of the resolution adopted on this issue from the Parliament of Albania.
I hope in your personal support and that of the members of your country's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for the adoption of our request, for launching the procedure that will lead to a following report, as honest and necessary correction of a tragic error, the consequences of which continue to persecute us.
Let me thank you from the heart in advance for your help.
Honestly,
Eddie Rama. /Periscopi/