"Kosovo leader tied to human kidney trafficking, report says; Inquiry maintains prime minister led criminal network" by Doreen Carvajal, International Herald Tribune / December 16, 2010
PARIS — A two-year international inquiry has accused the prime minister of Kosovo of leading a clan of criminal entrepreneurs who presided over an organ-trafficking network that extracted kidneys from Serbian prisoners executed during the Kosovo conflict in 1999.
The report, prepared for the Council of Europe, names the prime minister, Hashim Thaci, the former political leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, or KLA. It accuses him of leading the Drenica Group, an organized crime network that flourished in Kosovo and Albania after the war and exerted control over the heroin and narcotics trade and six secret detention centers for a black market in human kidneys....
After fighting ended in Kosovo in June 1999, a network was established that tied into “a broader, more complex organized criminal conspiracy’’ that operated in three other countries and endured for more than a decade, according to the report. The document was prepared by Dick Marty, a Swiss politician who led the investigation and has previously looked into allegations that the CIA abducted and imprisoned terrorism suspects in Europe....
Yes, that was a scathing report documenting the exact tactics the U.S. criticizes others over.
The report was initially commissioned in response to allegations about organ trafficking in a 2008 memoir by Carla del Ponte, now the Swiss ambassador to Argentina and formerly prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, a UN body that pursued war crimes suspects.
Her book, “The Hunt,’’ asserted that Kosovo Albanians had smuggled human organs of kidnapped Serbs after the war ended in 1999.
But she did not submit evidence of organ trafficking to the tribunal’s judges while she was the prosecutor.
The trafficking, according to the report, evolved over time and consisted of detention centers spread through Albania that were controlled by the KLA.
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Related: MSM Monitor Missed Bosnian Movie
Hey, they cut out the Israeli role!
And that is not then of Israel's involvement with Balkan crimes:
"Israel arrests Bosnian accused of war crimes" by Associated Press / January 19, 2011
JERUSALEM — Israeli police yesterday arrested a former Bosnian Serb soldier implicated by Bosnian authorities in the killing of more than 1,000 Muslim men in 1995....
The Justice Ministry said Aleksander Cvetkovic, 42, moved to Israel with his family in 2006. He received citizenship under Israeli law because his wife is Jewish....
Crypto-Jews killing off Muslims, what a shock.
A hearing today in Jerusalem will set a timetable for determining whether he can be extradited....
And no follow up from the Globe.
Israel giving aid and comfort to a war criminal?
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Meanwhile, in the Balkans today:
"Protesters demand elections held early
BELGRADE — Tens of thousands of nationalist supporters rallied against Serbia’s pro-Western government yesterday, demanding early elections amid the Balkan country’s deepening economic crisis. About 10,000 police officers gathered near the rally in front of the state Parliament in downtown Belgrade. The former allies of the late autocratic leader Slobodan Milosevic want early elections because of the country’s rising poverty and unemployment (AP)."
Is the whole world out in the streets these days or what?
Every article I begin to read about (enter country name here; do not enter USA) refers to protests in the streets somewhere.
Is the whole world out in the streets these days or what?
Every article I begin to read about (enter country name here; do not enter USA) refers to protests in the streets somewhere.
