"Kosovo rebels harvested Serbs’ organs, according to 2003 UN testimony" by Nebi Qena, Associated Press / February 19, 2011
PRISTINA, Kosovo — Ethnic Albanian rebels in Kosovo gave detailed testimony in 2003 on an alleged program to kill Serb captives, sell their organs, and bury hundreds of victims to hide evidence of civilian killings, according to a United Nations document obtained by the Associated Press.
The 30-page compilation of statements by at least eight people to UN investigators could provide momentum to claims that the world body failed to pay proper attention to war crimes by ethnic Albanian Kosovars in their 1990s war for independence.
UN authorities briefly investigated organ harvesting claims in 2004 but never launched a full-fledged probe, prompting Serb accusations of double standards in pursuing war crimes.
They would seem to have a point.
The document outlines an alleged scheme to take captives of the Kosovo Liberation Army rebels to Albania in the aftermath of the war so their kidneys, livers, and other organs could be removed at a home that had been set up as a medical clinic....
Related: MSM Monitor Missed Bosnian Movie
One source is quoted as telling investigators that the first two surgeries to harvest organs were done “to breach the market,’’ and that traffickers later were able to make up to $45,000 per body.
“The largest shipment was when they did five Serbs together. . . . He said they took a fortune that time,’’ the source said, according to the document. “Other shipments were usually from two or three Serbs.’’
The source told investigators that workers at the Rinas airport outside the Albanian capital of Tirana and at the airport in Istanbul, where the organs were allegedly taken for sale, were bribed “to close their eyes.’’
The flight between the cities takes about 1 hour 45 minutes; sources told the UN that the house where the organs allegedly were harvested was a two-hour drive from the airport.
If packed in ice after removal, organs are viable for several hours after extraction — hearts and lungs for 4-6 hours, livers for 18-24 hours, kidneys for 24-48 hours.
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The Horror of Haiti
Israelis Operate in South Africa
Israel Admits Organgate
One begins to see why certain old fossils seem to live forever.
"Fugitive Serb held on war crimes charges; Mladic had hid since 2006; to face tribunal at The Hague" by Dan Bilefsky and Marlise Simons, New York Times / May 27, 2011
BELGRADE — Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general held responsible for the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995, was captured in Serbia yesterday, handing a moral victory to the European Union, which had been pressing for his arrest since the Balkan wars ended in the 1990s.
With U.N. "peacekeepers" just down the road!
President Boris Tadic of Serbia announced the arrest, saying Mladic would be turned over to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague within seven days....
The massacre at Srebrenica was the worst ethnically motivated mass murder on the continent since World War II. The arrest of the man accused of organizing it had a resonance that many Europeans compared to that of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Oh, jees!
Related: First Goal of the Day: The Balkans bin Laden
Are they sure it is really Mladic?
Mladic was the top commander of the Bosnian Serb Army during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, which killed more than 100,000 people and drove 1.8 million more from their homes.
He is the last of the main figures in the Balkans wars to be accounted for. Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb political leader and Mladic’s former boss, is being tried in The Hague on charges of genocide for his role in the Balkan bloodshed. Slobodan Milosevic, the nationalist former president of Serbia and the architect of the war, died in 2006 while his trial was underway....
I'm beginning to wonder what really happened, folks:
"In March 2002, Milosevic presented the Hague tribunal with FBI documents proving that the United States government and NATO provided financial and military support for Al-Qaeda to aid the Kosovo Liberation Army in its war against Serbia.... Evidence linking him to genocides like Srebrenica, in which 7,000 Muslims died, was continually proven to be fraudulent. In fact, Srebrenica was supposedly a 'UN safe zone', yet just like Rwanda, UN peacekeepers deliberately withdrew and allowed the massacre to unfold, then blamed Milosevic."
Nothing is EVER AS IT SEEMS in the lying, agenda-pushing AmeriKan press, folks!
See: NATO/EU Globalist Crimes & Media Lies Exposed
Death, Lies and Videotape
The United Nations is Racist
Well, no; they go after poor white, too, if they are not with the program (and are not Jewish).
Also see: Karadzic Challenges War Crimes Court
Good luck with that one.
So WHEN will BUSH, BLIAR, and any of the crop of Israeli war criminals be before the U.N. bar?
President Obama commended the Tadic government for its “determined efforts to ensure that Mladic was found and that he faces justice.’’
Then why did our guys allegedly assassinate bin Laden?
Btw, you can add Obama to the list that should be before the bar on the basis of drone attacks against Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.
In a statement, he recalled the American efforts to halt the Balkans bloodshed, saying, “Today is an important day for the families of Mladic’s many victims, for Serbia, for Bosnia, for the United States, and for international justice.’’
The arrest marks a seminal moment in Serbia’s long effort to shed its status as a pariah nation, the legacy of the virulent nationalist and bloody Balkans wars of the 1990s. It also removes one major stumbling block to Serbia’s long-sought accession to the European Union.
Oh, so THAT is what this is ALL ABOUT!
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More about Mladic the monster:
"General inspired devotion, bred fear" by Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press / May 27, 2011
BELGRADE — Known for personally leading his troops in the 1995 Serb onslaught against the UN-protected enclave of Srebrenica — where thousands of Muslim men and boys were killed — General Ratko Mladic was indicted on charges of genocide against the Bosnian town’s population.
But if you killed millions like Bush it is no problem.
Hours before the massacre, Mladic handed out candy to Muslim children rounded up at the town’s square and assured them that all would be fine — even patting one child on the head. That sinister image is forever imprinted in the minds of Srebrenica survivors.
U.S. troops give out candy to try and win hearts and minds.
Born March 12, 1942, in the southeastern Bosnian village of Bozinovci, Mladic graduated from Belgrade’s prestigious military academy and joined the Yugoslav Communists in 1965. Embarking on an army career when Yugoslavia was a six-state federation, Mladic rose steadily through the military ranks, making general before the country’s breakup in 1991.
At the start of the Balkan bloodbath, he was in Croatia leading Yugoslav troops in Knin and was believed to have played a crucial role in the army bombardment of the coastal city of Zadar. A year later, he assumed command of the Yugoslav Army’s Second Military District, which effectively became the Bosnian Serb Army.
Appointed in 1992 by Karadzic, Mladic led the Bosnian Serb Army until the Dayton accords brought peace to Bosnia in 1995.
Among his men, Mladic commanded fierce devotion — many Bosnian Serb soldiers pledged to follow him to the death — and adoration bordering on the pathological.
As military leaderships go, his was omnipresent, from front-line trenches to chess games on high-altitude outlooks. He was known for ordering push-ups as a prelude to battle, and he enjoyed reviewing pompous military parades and rubbing shoulders with UN commanders in Bosnia.
Obsessed with his nation’s history, Mladic saw Bosnia’s war — which killed more than 100,000 people and displaced another 1.8 million — as a chance for revenge against 500 years of Turkish-Ottoman occupation of Serbia. He viewed Bosnian Muslims as Turks and called them that as an insult....
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Related: Globe Editorial Capture of Bosnian Serb chief upholds justice — and the EU
Serb police official guilty in 724 murders
Mladic could be sent to The Hague for UN tribunal as soon as Monday
Justice in the arrest of Mladic
Also see: Musical Mass Graves in the Balkans
And when the music stopped:
"UN court convicts 2 Croatian generals of war crimes against Serbs" April 16, 2011|By Marlise Simons, New York Times
PARIS — A United Nations court found a Croatian general, Ante Gotovina, guilty yesterday of war crimes and crimes against humanity in a campaign he led to regain Croatian land and drive Serbs from the Krajina region in 1995.
Gotovina, who was arrested in the Canary Islands in 2005 after four years on the run, was sentenced to 24 years in prison for shelling towns and killing and persecuting civilians.
The court sentenced Mladen Markac, another general in the campaign, to 18 years, but acquitted a third, Ivan Cermak, of all charges and ordered his release.
The decisions by a three-judge panel of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, were, in effect, an indirect verdict on the late president of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman, who died in 1999 as prosecutors at The Hague were planning to have him indicted....
In Croatia, the campaign to retake Krajina was widely seen as a just military victory and a powerful affirmation of the country’s identity....
Like our "victories" in the "war on terror."
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"Nationalists rally for early elections
BELGRADE — About 50,000 nationalist supporters demanded that the pro-Western government call early elections in Serbia at a rally yesterday, and their leader announced he was launching a hunger strike until the request is met. The government has rejected the demand for early elections, saying they will be held after Serbia wins candidacy for EU membership. Progressive Party leader Toma Nikolic announced the hunger strike (AP)."
Also see:
Bosnia envoy warns UN council of crisis
Serbian PM rattles ruling coalition
Serbian TV apologizes for role in wars
I wish mine would.
Well, no; they go after poor white, too, if they are not with the program (and are not Jewish).
Also see: Karadzic Challenges War Crimes Court
Good luck with that one.
So WHEN will BUSH, BLIAR, and any of the crop of Israeli war criminals be before the U.N. bar?
President Obama commended the Tadic government for its “determined efforts to ensure that Mladic was found and that he faces justice.’’
Then why did our guys allegedly assassinate bin Laden?
Btw, you can add Obama to the list that should be before the bar on the basis of drone attacks against Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.
In a statement, he recalled the American efforts to halt the Balkans bloodshed, saying, “Today is an important day for the families of Mladic’s many victims, for Serbia, for Bosnia, for the United States, and for international justice.’’
The arrest marks a seminal moment in Serbia’s long effort to shed its status as a pariah nation, the legacy of the virulent nationalist and bloody Balkans wars of the 1990s. It also removes one major stumbling block to Serbia’s long-sought accession to the European Union.
Oh, so THAT is what this is ALL ABOUT!
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More about Mladic the monster:
"General inspired devotion, bred fear" by Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press / May 27, 2011
BELGRADE — Known for personally leading his troops in the 1995 Serb onslaught against the UN-protected enclave of Srebrenica — where thousands of Muslim men and boys were killed — General Ratko Mladic was indicted on charges of genocide against the Bosnian town’s population.
But if you killed millions like Bush it is no problem.
Hours before the massacre, Mladic handed out candy to Muslim children rounded up at the town’s square and assured them that all would be fine — even patting one child on the head. That sinister image is forever imprinted in the minds of Srebrenica survivors.
U.S. troops give out candy to try and win hearts and minds.
Born March 12, 1942, in the southeastern Bosnian village of Bozinovci, Mladic graduated from Belgrade’s prestigious military academy and joined the Yugoslav Communists in 1965. Embarking on an army career when Yugoslavia was a six-state federation, Mladic rose steadily through the military ranks, making general before the country’s breakup in 1991.
At the start of the Balkan bloodbath, he was in Croatia leading Yugoslav troops in Knin and was believed to have played a crucial role in the army bombardment of the coastal city of Zadar. A year later, he assumed command of the Yugoslav Army’s Second Military District, which effectively became the Bosnian Serb Army.
Appointed in 1992 by Karadzic, Mladic led the Bosnian Serb Army until the Dayton accords brought peace to Bosnia in 1995.
Among his men, Mladic commanded fierce devotion — many Bosnian Serb soldiers pledged to follow him to the death — and adoration bordering on the pathological.
As military leaderships go, his was omnipresent, from front-line trenches to chess games on high-altitude outlooks. He was known for ordering push-ups as a prelude to battle, and he enjoyed reviewing pompous military parades and rubbing shoulders with UN commanders in Bosnia.
Obsessed with his nation’s history, Mladic saw Bosnia’s war — which killed more than 100,000 people and displaced another 1.8 million — as a chance for revenge against 500 years of Turkish-Ottoman occupation of Serbia. He viewed Bosnian Muslims as Turks and called them that as an insult....
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Related: Globe Editorial Capture of Bosnian Serb chief upholds justice — and the EU
Serb police official guilty in 724 murders
Mladic could be sent to The Hague for UN tribunal as soon as Monday
Justice in the arrest of Mladic
Also see: Musical Mass Graves in the Balkans
And when the music stopped:
"UN court convicts 2 Croatian generals of war crimes against Serbs" April 16, 2011|By Marlise Simons, New York Times
PARIS — A United Nations court found a Croatian general, Ante Gotovina, guilty yesterday of war crimes and crimes against humanity in a campaign he led to regain Croatian land and drive Serbs from the Krajina region in 1995.
Gotovina, who was arrested in the Canary Islands in 2005 after four years on the run, was sentenced to 24 years in prison for shelling towns and killing and persecuting civilians.
The court sentenced Mladen Markac, another general in the campaign, to 18 years, but acquitted a third, Ivan Cermak, of all charges and ordered his release.
The decisions by a three-judge panel of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, were, in effect, an indirect verdict on the late president of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman, who died in 1999 as prosecutors at The Hague were planning to have him indicted....
In Croatia, the campaign to retake Krajina was widely seen as a just military victory and a powerful affirmation of the country’s identity....
Like our "victories" in the "war on terror."
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"Nationalists rally for early elections
BELGRADE — About 50,000 nationalist supporters demanded that the pro-Western government call early elections in Serbia at a rally yesterday, and their leader announced he was launching a hunger strike until the request is met. The government has rejected the demand for early elections, saying they will be held after Serbia wins candidacy for EU membership. Progressive Party leader Toma Nikolic announced the hunger strike (AP)."
Also see:
Bosnia envoy warns UN council of crisis
Serbian PM rattles ruling coalition
Serbian TV apologizes for role in wars
I wish mine would.
