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''Traffic in human organs.'' Storm over the government of Kosovo Diplomats

by lastampa.it - December 16, 2010

The charge of the Council of Europe also involved Prime Minister Thaci. The replies are all inventions. But the EU asks for clarification.

aftermath of the first general elections in independent Kosovo, a bomb orolgeria breaks on the already hotly contested victory of Prime Minister Hashim Thaci confirmed, directly called into question by reports that the deputy Swiss Dick Marty will present tomorrow at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Pace), about the alleged illegal trafficking of organs to the detriment of prisoners of war by the KLA, which Thaci was the leader at the material time.
Charges are very hard. In the summer of 1999, shortly after the end of the Kosovo Serb war formally declared on June 9, 'a number of concrete and converging information confirms that there are some Serbs and Kosovar Albanians were being held in secret detention sites in the KLA (

the Kosovo Liberation Army, ed ) in northern Albania and were subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, before disappearing completely. " More specifically 'bodies were removed from some prisoners in a clinic on Albanian territory near ushe Kruje, to be conducted abroad for transplants. "
Sharing the complaint of the case that the former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal (ICTY) Carla Del Ponte, said in his book "Hunting," published in 2008, Marty - already known for bringing to light the secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe - goes further and concludes that "this criminal activity has continued in some form to date, as shown by the investigations on the EULEX Clinic in Pristina Medicus" A 27-page report - "not a criminal investigation," it is stated - describing the disturbing fate that could be impacted at least "470 people missing after the arrival (in Kosovo) troops (NATO)) KFOR June 12, 1999, 95 of which were Kosovo Albanians and 375 non-Albanians, mainly Serbs. " Prisoners of war, therefore, but also Kosovars accused of treason and collaboration, transferred into the KLA base camps in Albania, when "the border between Kosovo and Albania had effectively ceased to exist."

The direction of this design crime is attributed to the "group of Drenica, the KLA faction then head to the current acting Prime Minister Thaci. "A crime boss" according to intelligence reports quoted by Marty, including Italy's SISMI, as well as Germany's secret service (BND), UK (MI6) and Greece (EYP). Marty ago and last names of the members of the group that "should have been be convicted of serious crimes, but (...) have consolidated their foot down. " Among these that of the surgeon Shaip Muja, in 1999 commander of a medical basis KLA in Albania and now "a political adviser in the office of Minister pirmo with resposabilità on Health." Another sensitive point of the report is the role of "international actors who chose to look the blindfolded tbsp KLA war crimes, offering instead a reward for achieving a degree of stability in the short term," is what the law .

from NATO to the KLA, the UN mission, UNMIK is not up to manage investigations, with the EU, EULEX, which succeeded in 2008, which has "left the vain expectation to go beyond the" Untouchables ", which spent more than a oascuro is commonly known." It is certainly not the portrait of Mrs international community in Kosovo, painted by the Swiss Parliament. So, tomorrow will recommend to the Council of Europe for Albania - which has always denied permission to investigate on its territory, "to cooperate fully with EULEX and the Serbian authorities." Also because Marty writes that he found "a number of credible and corroborated information that the components of post-conflict trafficking in organs are described in our report closely related to the case of contemporary clinical Medicus', Pristina, which has recently led to four arrests by EULEX. In short, the new Kosovo engaged in trials of democracy, according to the report of the Council of Europe would have been the scene of unspeakable crimes, which continued for at least a decade, with the consent of his re-elected premier.

The Kosovo government has distanced itself from the report calling it "slanderous." The allegations published by The Guardian "have been the subject of repeated investigations by the local security institutions and international and each time it was established that they were groundless," reads a statement issued by the government in Pristina. The government had threatened the adoption of any "legal and political action and measures" against those who developed the report and urged the Council of Europe to reject it. "It is clear that someone seeks to discredit Prime Minister Hashim Thaci after the parliamentary elections in which citizens clearly and overwhelmingly supported the program for the government and the country's development," continues the note. In Belgrade, where Thaci was sentenced in absentia on terrorism charges in 1997, a spokesman for the war crimes prosecutor, Bruno Vekaric, said that the report is filtered through advances a "victory" for Serbia.

Those who take "very seriously" the charges against Thaci and the EU. Brussels, a spokesman for the mouth of the Tyrolean-EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Catherine Ashton, calls the author of the document, Dick Marty, to "present evidence" in its possession to the competent authorities. The Union is on the ground with the EULEX mission, which, among its tasks, it also has to investigate organized crime and cooperate with the authorities concerned of the Balkan countries, also pledged to combat criminal activities in the framework of the dialogue with the EU. "We're trying to get all the information and evidence as possible," said the spokesman, leaving to understand that the EU wants to investigate allegations made in the report of the Council of Europe, but to pursue this action also needs to obtain evidence.

From:
lastampa.it

Thaci faces probe over Alleged organ trafficking
By Neil MacDonald in Belgrade

Hashim Thaci,
Kosovo's newly re- Elected prime minister, is coming under fresh scrutiny over His guerrilla past as European foreign ministers Examine allegations about organ trafficking in the 1998-99 war.
Dick Marty, a Council of Europe rapporteur, presented a report on Thursday to members of the 47-country organisation that alleges that Mr Thaci, a leader in the Kosovo Liberation Army against Serbia, also formed a powerful “mafia” network among former guerrilla fighters for narcotics and organ trafficking. The council, which promotes human rights, democracy and the rule of law around the continent
published the report on its website

and tabled it for discussion next month.

Mr Marty, a Swiss former prosecutor, alleges that the ethnic Albanian guerrilla group took advantage of chaos as the war ended to set up profitable smuggling operations.
The report repeats allegations about a house in northern Albania – the KLA’s safe haven from Serbian police – where surgeons removed kidneys from ethnic Serb and other prisoners for sale on the black market.

Carla del Ponte, former prosecutor at the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, said organ harvesting by KLA members was never sufficiently investigated, partly because the tribunal’s jurisdiction did not extend to Albania.

“Although some concrete evidence of such trafficking already existed at the beginning of the decade, the international authorities in charge of the region did not consider it necessary to conduct a detailed examination of these circumstances, or did so incompletely and superficially,” the draft report adds.

Thorbjorn Jagland, Council of Europe secretary-general, said the Marty report’s “very serious allegations . . . have to be either confirmed or refuted through proper criminal investigation”.

Mr Thaci has contacted lawyers and intends to sue Mr Marty for libel, a senior government official told the Associated Press, requesting anonymity.

A recent European Union investigation has also failed to find “hard facts and proofs” about the alleged organ trafficking, said Karin Limdal of Eulex, the EU-led police mission in Kosovo. It has two suspects in detention and last month indicted them for mistreatment of prisoners at KLA prison camps in Albania.

But investigators have found no evidence of organ harvesting at the so-called “yellow house”, one of the sites mentioned in Mr Marty’s report, Eulex officials said.

In a separate case, seven Kosovan surgeons are on trial before EU judges for illegal kidney transplants and murder at the medicus clinic in Pristina, Kosovo’s capital, in recent years. Two co-accused – one Turkish, the other Israeli – are wanted by Interpol.

Russians, Moldovans, Kazakhs and Turks were lured “with the false promise of payments” for their kidneys, said the prosecutor, Jonathan Ratel, as hearings opened on Tuesday.

The clinic transplanted black-market kidneys into wealthy recipients from Canada, Germany, Poland and Israel, who paid up to €90,000 ($119,000), he said.

According to the Marty report, the Medicus clinic case implies continuity from war crimes and later trafficking activities of the “Drenica group”, Mr Thaci’s alleged former guerrilla crime ring.

“This [KLA] criminal activity . . . has continued, albeit in other forms, until today, as demonstrated by an investigation being carried out by the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (Eulex) relating to the Medicus clinic in Pristina,” the draft report says.

Kosovo’s main ethnic Albanian political parties immediately closed ranks against the report, despite bitter feuds over election fraud in the past week.

Jakup Krasniqi, Kosovo’s interim president and a member of a rival party, said the report made “racist” assertions by putting Kosovo Albanians, the war’s main victims, on an equal footing with the former Serb regime of Slobodan Milosevic.

Ruling party members said the report repeated old allegations meant to damage Kosovo.


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