EU Special Investigative Task Force

THE HAGUE - David Schwendiman of the United States has been appointed chief prosecutor of a Hague-based special court that will investigate war crimes committed during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo.

The court is looking at atrocities committed against Serbs by the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army during and after the conflict, Reuters reported.

Williamson, who ended his three-year mandate as chief prosecutor of the EU Special Investigative Task Force in charge of probing war crime allegations against Kosovo Liberation Army, has been appointed senior director for law and national security at the McCain Institute for International Leadership.

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Council of EU: Human organ trafficking trials outside Kosovo

BRUSSELS -- The Council of the European Union decided on Monday to mandate EULEX to support the judicial proceedings on alleged human organ trafficking in Kosovo in 1999.

Kosovo promises to co-operate with war crimes investigation

Indictments by an EU task force are expected to be filed once a special court is established next year.

Kosovo pledged to continue to work with the EU Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) to investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity committed after the 1999 Kosovo war.

The War Veterans Association on Wednesday condemned the EU Special Investigative Task Force report into alleged crimes committed after the 1999 conflict, calling it “illogical, ridiculous and tendentious”.

"No conclusions, but truth’s onward march continues"

BELGRADE -- Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Anne Brasseur has welcomed a report by special prosecutor John Clint Williamson.

It concerned an investigation into the 1999 Kosovo organ trafficking case.

STRASBOURG - President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Anne Brasseur has welcomed a report by special prosecutor John Clint Williamson concerning an investigation into the 1999 Kosovo organ trafficking case, expressing satisfaction that “truth’s onward march continues also in this case.”

BRUSSELS - Clint Williamson, the lead prosecutor in a probe into the 1999 organ trafficking in Kosovo-Metohija, will on Tuesday in Brussels present the report of the EU Special Investigative Task Force.

The Task Force announced in a statement that Williamson will present to the media the findings gathered by his team during the investigation.

BELGRADE - Clint Williamson, lead prosecutor for the EU Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) for the investigation into the allegations regarding human organ trafficking during the conflict in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) in 1999, informed Serbian senior officials of the next steps in the investigation and underlined that the findings will be revealed at an appropriate time, stressing that no speci