Albanian Parliament establishes a Committee to probe Dick Marty’s report

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Gazeta Express

03/12/2020 15:46

The Parliament in Albania gave Thursday a green light to establish a special committee which will probe Dick Marty’s allegations that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) run illegal detention centre in Albania’s territory during 1998-1999 war with Serbia.

85 MPs of the Albanian Parliament voted in favour, 12 were against and four abstained, Gazeta Express reports. The Committee will be chaired by Ulsi Manja an MP of the ruling Socialist Party (PS) whose party initiated the probe.

The Special Parliament Committee will probe Dick Marty’s report, who alleges that during the war in Kosovo in 1998-1999 the KLA run illegal detention centres in northern Albania. In  his report Dick Marty mentioned also the so-called Yellow House located in Mati region, alleging that in this house the KLA has harvested organs of Serb victims. The proposal to establish the committee came only weeks after the Kosovo Specialist Chambers establishes to prosecute and try Marty’s allegations, confirmed the first indictments against former senior commanders of the KLA. /GazetaExpress/