Europe has never had interest in proving Dick Marty's claims - Italian journalist

BELGRADE - Maria Lina Veca, an Italian journalist and researcher who was among the first in the world to uncover the story of organ trafficking in Kosovo-Metohija, says Europe has never had a genuine interest in prosecuting those responsible for these crimes, and notes that the last hope of this ever happening is dashed following Dick Marty's death.

Marty, the former Council of Europe rapporteur who investigated crimes committed by the "Kosovo Liberation Army" and organ trafficking in Kosovo-Metohija, died last Thursday aged 78.

"Marty's immense investigative work, testimonies, evidence, and financial analyses that indisputably proved the involvement of 'KLA' leaders in organ trafficking suddenly became useless," Lina Veca told Kosovo Online.

"This became apparent with the initiation of the first indictments before the Specialist Chambers in Kosovo in The Hague. And now, after his death, I am convinced that the entire case will be forgotten," Lina Veca said.

From the beginning, no one in Europe had an interest in uncovering the truth about what happened in Kosovo in 1999 and after the arrival of international peacekeeping forces, she said.

"If we look at Europe's recent past, we will see that no one is interested in presenting the real truth about the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Why would you then expect readiness to find out how the illegitimate state of Kosovo was created and Serbia demonised?

Are we not still hearing the same lies today? That's why I am convinced that with Dick Marty's death, the last hope of finding out the real truth about the crimes committed against Serbs but also disloyal (ethnic) Albanians has effectively disappeared. I no longer expect anything from the so-called international justice," Lina Veca said.