(16 Dec 2010)
1. Wide shot of the Special court for war crimes in Belgrade
2. Medium shot of the entrance of the court
3. Wide shot of Vladimir Vukcevic, Serbia war crime chief prosecutor arriving to the press conference with his deputy Bruno Vekaric
4.Cutaway journalists
5 SOUNDBITE: (Serbian): Vladimir Vukcevic, Serbia war crime chief prosecutor:
Dick Marty's report , which I hear has been accepted by the Human Rights Committee of the Council of Europe today gives us great satisfaction in our future work."
6 Cutaway
7 SOUNDBITE: (Serbian): Vladimir Vukcevic, Serbia war crime chief prosecutor:
"I don' t see that anybody in Kosovo, no matter on which function he is, could be absolved from potential responsibility for these monstrous crimes. I think that these are monstrous crimes, and we have already said that at the beginning of our investigations and that was a stimulus to be very persistent in our investigations. "
8. Cutaway maps on the projector showing possible places where crimes were committed
9. Wide shot of Vladimir Vukcevic leaving the presser
10. Cutaway journalists
11.SOUNDBITE: (Serbian): Verica Tomanovic, head of the association of missing and kidnapped people in Kosovo:
"Families of the people missing and kidnapped in Kosovo expect the truth about their members of the family. For that truth we have been waiting for 11 to12 years . We are grateful to Mr. Dick Marty for opening this subject as we have been waiting for this for years, especially after Carla del Ponte's book was published about war crimes."
12. Cutaway journalist
STORYLINE:
Serbia's war crimes prosecutors expressed their 'satisfaction' on Thursday with the report by Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty, which alleged that the Kosovo Liberation Army was involved in the trafficking of human kidneys in the aftermath of the country's war for independence.
Chief Serbia war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said his own team's investigation had been an "important source" for Marty's report.
He said the release of the report was very important because he and his team had been working on the investigation for a very long time.
Vukcevic claimed that up to 500 people had been the victims of what he described as a classic organised crime operation.
Of those victims 400 were Serbs while the rest were other non-Albanians.
Kosovo prime minister Hashim Thaci was the KLA's political head during the 1998-99 war with Serbia, and his party just won Kosovo's first general elections since it declared its 2008 independence.
However Vukcevik said no-one found to be guilty of any offence should escape punishment.
"I don' t see that anybody in Kosovo, no matter on which function he is could be pardoned for this monstrous crime. We are talking here about monstrous crimes and that stimulated us to be very persistent in our job," he said.
Vukcevik's news conference was attended by Verica Tomanovic, head of the association of missing and kidnapped people in Kosovo.
She said she was grateful to Marty for releasing the report.
"Families of the people missing and kidnapped in Kosovo expect the truth about their members of the family. For that truth we have been waiting for 11 to 12 years, she said.
Marty on Thursday told reporters that Western police and intelligence officers had known of the grisly trade in human organs.
His report alleged that civilian detainees of the KLA rebels were shot dead and their kidneys sold on the black market.
It suggested that Thaci was once the "boss" of a criminal underworld behind the grisly trade.
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