Kosovo PM Accused of Organ Trafficking

Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has been accused of being the head of a mafia organization , linked with the traffic of organs of Serb prisoners after the 1998-99 conflict in the Balkan country.

The allegations have been published in a draft Council of Europe report on the inhuman treatment of people and illicit trafficking in human organs in Kosovo .

In the report, prepared by Swiss Council of Europe deputy Dick Marty, Thaci and other senior commanders of the ethnic Albanian guerrilla group the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) are accused of having set up the traffic.

There has been substantial evidence that Serbians - and some Albanian Kosovars - had been secretly imprisoned by the KLA in northern Albania "and were subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, before ultimately disappearing," the report says.

In Kosovo, the government of Thaci dismissed the report as fabrications designed to smear its leaders.

On Monday, Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) won Kosovo's first parliamentary elections since the country unilaterally declared independence from Serbia.

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