The UNMIK Office headed by Baraybar in 2004 ran, at the time, all activities linked to finding missing persons, while he himself was accused of illegal handling of human body parts.
Its well known that if you take a part of someones body, you need to have the consent of the parents, but on one occasion the UNMIK Office Chief Jose Pablo Baraybar committed a crime by helping himself to a bone sample for the purposes of his own research and benefit, claims Hysni Berisha of the Suva Reka Association of Missing Persons Families.
We asked himwhy are you taking it? At first he didnt say anything, then he saidIll never tell you, whats it to you that Im taking it? recalls Tefik Gashi, a pathologist from Pritina.
A letter from the Belgrade War Crimes Prosecutors Office states that Baraybar had a number of criminal complaints against his name, including from Serb and Bosniak missing persons associations.
Baraybar, whom the Reaction team was able to track down in Denver, denied the familys allegations when interviewed over the phone.
Yeah, there are a number of people who took advantage of those families and told them stories how Ive got some sort of collection of bones somewhere, and that Im involved in the organ trade. Thats nothing new to me, he said.
I think I did all I could in the Balkans, and I think that I gave the Balkans everything that was in my power. I left there for completely private reasons, I wasnt running away from anything, the former UNMIK official said.
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