PARIS - Television network France 24 and the Italian News Agency TM acquired confidential document by the UN and the Hague tribunal on a possible trade in human organs in Kosovo, Albania and in several other countries, which was organized by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), as published online by this television.

According to France 24, the UN investigators reviewed the document in 2003 but it was never presented to EULEX. It is still not clear why this has not been done, the television adds.

TV France 24 also notes that among the 1999 and 2000 organizers of the organ trade there are references to close associates of Ramush Haradinaj, the former KLA commander and the 2004-2005 Prime Minister of Kosovo, indicted by the War Crimes Hague Tribunal and currently held there in custody.This document is a sort of compilation of the UNMIK investigation reports, detailing on the organ trade that allegedly took place immediately after the war, in 1999 and 2000. The victims were mostly Serbian civilians from Kosovo but also young women originating from Eastern European countries; all were illegally brought to the north of Albania, according to the document.

The report further cites that the victims were then trafficked to illegal detention centers and to the makeshift hospital in Albania, called the "yellow house", where their vital organs were extracted for later sale on the illegal market.

The site published a scan of the 29 page document claiming that in the mid-1999 and possibly earlier, between 100 and 300 people had been kidnapped and transported in trucks to prisons in northern Albania (www.france24.com/static/infographies/documents/kosovo_house_2003.pdf/)

Most of the kidnapped persons were allegedly men, the Kosovo Serbs, captured between June and October 1999. From August 1999, some of them, between 24 and 100 people, were transported from northern Albania to other locations, private homes or industrial complexes in central Albania, mainly near the town of Burrel, 110 kilometers southwest of Kukes.