Former Kosovo rebel describes removing prisoner's heart for black market sale The report said that organs were taken from the bodies of prisoners, many of them Serbs, held by the KLA in Albania at the time. Thaci as well as Albania have denied the accusations and condemned Marty's report, as well as Sunday's revealing of the witness and his claims. The witness, with only his hands and torso visible, explained in detail how he had been trained by "doctors" to harvest a heart from a prisoner at an undisclosed location. "He (a doctor) told me what should I do on the body ... to make a cut from a throat to the end of ribs," the witness described the impromptu training organised several days before the surgery. The ethnicity of the patient was not revealed in the interview, but Vukcevic told AFP the victim was a Serb prisoner, while the operation had been carried out near the northern Albanian town of Kukes. The victim, a man in his twenties, was tied to tables in a school classroom by four rebels. When I came closer he was trying to get away but they tied him more. He began crying, begging,'God, do not slaughter me, do not kill me!'" the witness said. Dressed in a black long-sleeve T-shirt, the man explained the procedure in details, saying that the two doctors had also been present at the scene, with a cooling box prepared for transport of organs. When I finished the first cut, I was told to make another one, a cross section ... The third line did the doctor himself seeing that my hand was shaking. He told me not to worry," the witness said. As another doctor had forgotten the scissors, the witness proposed to make them from a "bayonet" of a Kalashnikov and was told "where to cut the ribs" with a warning "not to damage something, meaning, the heart." A doctor "put both his hands into the body, pulled and opened it" while another man had brought the cooling box. As they had no "pegs for vessels to prevent bleeding ... we had to take a nylon, like a fishing one, to tie twice on each cut." We cut veins and when I took the heart, it was still beating ... I put it in the box" for transport, he said. It was then taken to the airport in Albania's capital Tirana, where the rebels, including the witness, were met by several Albanian army officials. The box was given to a "foreigner" coming out from a "small private plane" with a Turkish flag, the witness said. The wartime organ harvesting case is believed to be linked to the so-called Medicos affair, another case of organ trafficking at a hospital in Kosovo's main city Pristina. Seven people, mostly doctors, are on trial before an EU-run court there on charges of illegally transplanting organs at the Medicus Clinic. The case came to light in 2008 after police opened an investigation into the collapse of a Young Turk at the Pristina airport following a kidney donation to an Israeli man.