Dick Marty, the Swiss senator known for his infamous report on the KLA, dies

2023-12-28 15:48:45Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Dick Marty, the Swiss senator known for his infamous report on the KLA, dies
Dick Marty

The Swiss senator, Dick Marty, has died at the age of 78. The news was announced by the Swiss-Italian newspaper "Corriere del Ticino".

It is learned that Marty's dead body was found in his house. The right-center Radical Party has also confirmed the death.

Marty became internationally known as a member of the Council of Europe and the OSCE Commission on Human Rights.

His report on Kosovo in 2011, as a special investigator for the Council of Europe, claimed organ trafficking, also accusing the KLA.

As a result of his report, the Special Court in The Hague was established by the Assembly of Kosovo a few years later. Former KLA superiors are being accused in The Hague of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Some time ago, Marty said that the Serbian secret services wanted to execute him, and then leave the blame to the Albanians.

The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, in August at the Council of Europe requested the cancellation of Dick Marty's report on organ trafficking in Albania and Kosovo.

In Kosovo, he was recognized for his report, which, with the approval of the Council of Europe, claimed that KLA leaders committed crimes against humanity during the last war in Kosovo, specifically suspected organ trafficking.

He was elected to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1999 and chaired the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights from 2005 to 2008. He retired in 2011.

On behalf of the committee, he investigated secret CIA prisons in Europe, publishing a report in 2006 that said 14 countries had collaborated with the US in a "spider web" of human rights abuses. Marty said other countries, including Switzerland, were actively or passively involved in the detention or transfer of unknown persons.


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