The resignation of Kosovar President Hashim Thaci once again raises the question of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by high-ranking Kosovar politicians and officials during the 1998-1999 hostilities.
A special court in The Hague upheld the indictment against Thaci, charged with the murder and torture of about a hundred people of various nationalities.
In addition, the ex-president is suspected of involvement in the trafficking of human organs.
This business, apparently, brought the largest income to the members of the leadership of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which was once headed by the ex-president of the republic.
In June, prosecutors in The Hague brought charges against him on ten counts.
The list of accusations seems to have been transferred to reality from a horror film about a gang of bloody maniacs.
In addition to horrific stories about the sale of human bodies in parts, there was a place for drug trafficking, kidnapping and weapons smuggling.
Thaci said at his press conference that he intends to voluntarily appear in court.
Actually, he had no other choice, since another Kosovar politician, former KLA press secretary Yakub Krasniki, had been detained by the EU police a few hours earlier.
The tragedy of the Kosovo Serbs, over a thousand of whom were killed during the war, and the Serb population was expelled from the region, is hushed up by European human rights organizations.
But the horrific topic of organ trafficking stands alone.
In his memoirs, the former prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal Carla del Ponte describes in detail his attempts to deal with this issue.
She writes that the business reached its peak between the summer of 1999 and 2001.
Milorad Pejcinovic, who until recently headed the Serbian State Commission on Missing Persons, claims that Thaci was the organizer of the bloody conveyor, and the French diplomat Bernard Kouchner, then the head of the UN mission in Kosovo, was the distributor.
The secret report of a team of investigators of the Hague Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia contains detailed testimonies of eight Albanian witnesses who were directly involved in the transportation of people kidnapped from Kosovo to northern Albania.
The names and nicknames of those who met them there, descriptions of the places where prisoners were kept and corpses were buried, stories about how organs were transported from the airport of the Albanian capital on charter flights to Istanbul.
Even the prices that intermediaries received for a still living product are indicated.
For $ 45 thousand per head.
The so-called Yellow House is mentioned - a private clinic where the operations were carried out.
In 2004, investigators from the UN mission found a number of evidence, but this did not have any legal consequences.
Legal and Human Rights Rapporteur Dick Marty states: “There was a wide array of technical evidence collected: medicines, medical containers and even traces of blood.
However, this evidence found was strangely destroyed. "
The Swiss senator, shocked by the fact that the information released by Carla del Ponte had been hidden from the European public and justice for many years, conducted his own investigation.
He also came to the conclusion that it was Thaci who was at the origin of the terrible business.
Under the nickname Serpent, during the war years he led the most brutal Drenitsa group, whose militants were part of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Today, three groups are investigating cases of organ trafficking.
One found nothing while checking the aforementioned Yellow House.
Another, who has received gigantic powers, checks the report of Dick Marty.
The third managed to bring to court the case of the Kosovo Medicus clinic in Pristina, where illegal organ transplants were also carried out in 2008.
That is, the analysis of people into parts continued until very recently.
Clinic "Medicus" was founded in 2000.
The investigation established that a group of doctors worked there, who established black transplantation back in the mid-1990s.
A secret 2003 UN mission report said that the bandits who gutted the Kosovo Serbs in northern Albania had contacts in Turkey and the Middle East.
A Turkish surgeon Yusuf Sonmez, also known as Dr. Frankenstein, and an Israeli intermediary, Moshe Arel, are involved in the case.
Gvozden Gagic is a retired police colonel in Serbia; in the early 2000s he headed the state commission on missing persons.
He laid the foundation for the whole story by contacting Carla del Ponte and providing her with information about the places where the disappeared people were held and the routes of their transfer to Albania.
According to him, it is necessary to combine all disparate cases into one and check what the Albanian doctors arrested now in Pristina were doing.
It is also very important, he said, that the transplanted organ retains the donor's DNA.
It is necessary to monitor all transplant operations that were carried out in the region at that time.
In conclusion, it would probably be worth mentioning that the independence of Kosovo, which was supported by the West, having dismembered Yugoslavia, after all the details about organ trafficking, receives a quite distinct cannibalistic background - sovereignty, stained with human blood.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.