Russia Seeks Carla Del Ponte Explanation

| 09 April 2008 |

Carla Del Ponte

Belgrade _ Russia is demanding answers from The Hague War Crimes Tribunal over revelations in Carla Del Ponte’s new book.

“Moscow is carefully following developments regarding the former Hague chief prosecutor’s memoirs on activities in investigating war crimes,” the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in a statement.

The statement added that Russia was shocked by “the facts about brutal crimes against the peaceful Serb population committed by Kosovo Liberation Army extremists in the name of their ‘battle for independence.”

The Swiss Foreign Ministry has banned the promotion of Del Ponte’s book, The Hunt, in Milan on Sunday, saying “the book promotion is not compatible with Mrs. Del Ponte’s position as a Swiss ambassador” to Argentina.

The ministry added Del Ponte’s book included information “that an official of the Swiss government should not be allowed to state publicly.” It did not specify what details prompted the ban.

In its reaction to the Swiss ban, Russia said they were not surprised.

Such discoveries, Moscow said, did not fit into the scenarios of a series of countries where “propaganda portrayed the Kosovo Albanians as great martyrs and therefore legitimised Kosovo’s independence.”

Del Ponte’s book, dealing with war crimes committed during the 1998-1999 Kosovo conflict, has already triggered a controversy due to some details that were made public ahead of its appearance.

Last month, an association of families of kidnapped Kosovo Serbs said it would file a lawsuit against Del Ponte as details from her book shed new light on the fate of missing Serbs.

She claims to have learned from a group of reliable journalists that some 300 Serbs were taken to Albania in the summer of 1999, after the end of the NATO bombing of Serbia and arrival of their forces in Kosovo.

The victims had their organs removed and were then killed, the former prosecutor said.

Del Ponte said her office decided to drop the case since the investigation in Albania was "impossible to conduct."

Serbia's War Crimes Prosecution has confirmed they were earlier informed about the allegations, and announced they are opening an investigation.

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Comments:

stupid allegations
2008-04-09 20:36:28

this time Carla messed up! Anybody with basic knowledge of: Medecine, Information and Law, would understand that! 1. If Albania( especially north) could process some complicated surgery like transplants in 1999, this would be something to doubt about the lucidity of the person and the reliability of its sources! 2. For a ex general procekutor and Actual Swiss ambassador in Argentina, its so bizarre to hear just words on some peoples ( politicians) which she presumes guilty! Frankly it smells more like a mixture of complexes (beeing out of spotlights) and diplomatic naivity! Domage pour Carla!

expulsion
2008-04-10 13:56:13

Well, I personally think Del Ponte is entitled to such things as being an old woman, she is totally excused to hear, hearsay, promote, believe, inflate and publish gossips. Her very age allows all this expulsion of brain. On the other side, books are not always written to prove a point; sometimes they're written simply because there is an audience and her audience simply won't fall short of madness, Del Ponte-like. She could make a couple of bucks though. I can see her book selling thousands or even millions in Serbia, Russia and elsewhere where people are so strangled by unemplyment and extreme poverty that fairytales with bogeymen could create some sort of distraction and fake relief. Proving what she has written in her book might be as easy as the innocence of Milosevic. I guess she managed to prove the latter, why could she possibly fail with her book?

truth
2008-04-12 15:29:09

After long long time very brave revealling of truth, Bravo Carla

Good daydream
2008-05-20 15:18:53

I think that Carla during her job in Haga has failed to do many things, first some criminals are still going up and down freely in Serbia,and she is not doing nothing about that, on the other side she punished wrongly two politicans ex-prime minister Mr Haradinaj than Mr Limaj, it turned out they were unguilty, as a reward she is going to make lot of propaganda in front of international community, that we have done something. it was the biggest genocide after the second world war Miss and we suffered a lot, you are doing the second crime with that book.

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Russia Seeks Carla Del Ponte Explanation