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EU and US Accused of Cover-Up on Organ Trafficking

by 1389AD ( 120 Comments › )
Filed under Albania, Crime, Europe, Kosovo, Orthodox Christianity at February 17th, 2011 - 8:30 am

By Sparta

Memory Eternal

Let us begin by honoring the memory of those killed for their bodily organs during the Kosovo War and its aftermath. Memory Eternal (Vechnaya Pamyat/Вечнaјa Пaмјat in Serbian Cyrillic) is the traditional Orthodox Christian hymn commemorating the dead. This version is sung by St. Sergius’ Choir, at St. Sava’s Serbian Orthodox Church in Cleveland, Ohio.

Orthodox Concert St. Sergius Choir (Alex Petrovsky) – Vechnaya Pamyat

America Forgets

It’s amazing. When the Serbs were accused of committing atrocities, our congressmen couldn’t jump up fast enough on the floor of the House to condemn them, yet something as horrific as this, they and the media remain silent. It’s news all over Europe, but we’ve heard nothing about this in the states.

EUobserver: EU and US accused of cover-up on organ trafficking

By Andrew Willis
14.02.2011 @ 09:25 CET

Investigator Dick Marty
Investigator Dick Marty

…A report published by Mr Marty in December sent shockwaves through the international community when it linked Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci to a gruesome crime ring which carried out organ harvesting and heroin smuggling in the region.

Serb prisoners held in special detention camps were killed and had their organs extracted for sale on the international black market in the 1990s, claimed the 27-page document.

A former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), Mr Thaci’s name was frequently cited in intelligence and diplomatic reports from Kosovo sent by western information agencies such as the FBI, MI6, “but the western politicians persistently remained quiet,” Mr Marty said in the interview.

“Everybody kept quiet. That’s the real scandal, not my report in which I only wrote what many have known for a long time,” he added.

That claim appears to be supported by a recently leaked US diplomatic cable which suggests former Dutch state secretary for European Affairs Frans Timmermans warned the US in 2007 that senior Kosovo officials were heavily involved in criminal activities.

“Kosovo is run by people who live off crime … [they have] no other means to support themselves,” Mr Timmermans reportedly told US officials in The Hague, according to the cable published by WikiLeaks.

An EU mission in Kosovo, Eulex, is currently investigating the recent allegations, but the supervisory body is plagued by internal problems that will prevent witnesses giving real evidence, Mr Marty said.

“There is no secrecy. All translators are local, there are many local staff. That is why even the most confidential information has been systematically leaking,” he said.

“If I gave [Eulex] the names of the witnesses I interviewed [as called for by the EU], their lives would immediately be under threat.”

Instead, a special investigation unit from abroad with a credible witness protection programme is needed, suggested the Swiss politician – something he feels Europe will oppose as it will expose their previous unwillingness to act.

“Europe is never going to accept that. Because it knows that my witnesses would really talk and reveal that a large part of the European politicians knew all along what was going on in Kosovo. Do you really think that Brussels wants to hear something like this,” he said.

Read it all.


Originally published on 1389 Blog.


The Marty Report: Organ Harvesting in the Balkans

by coldwarrior ( 114 Comments › )
Filed under Balkans, Breaking News, Crime, Europe, George W. Bush, Islam, Judaism, Orthodox Christianity at January 25th, 2011 - 2:00 pm

It really depresses and infuriates me that I have to write this post (special tanks for the help 1389). I am sickened by the thought of all of this. Tonight at about 1030pm eastern or so there is going to be a press conference on webcast from the Council of Europe in Brussels dealing with the harvesting of organs from abducted Serbians in Kosovo, the debate is occurring as we speak. This was first reported many years ago by the Serbian press, no one paid any attention to it. hen in 2008  Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte publicly made statements about the organ harvesting and even wrote a book about it, ‘Hunt: Me and War Criminals’ (which was banned from publishing for some time). Where she states that in the summer of 1999 300 young Serbs were abducted in Kosovo. They were transported to Albania for execution and then their organs were sold on the global black market. Hashim Thaci, the former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the current Prime Minister of Kosovo, who earned the nickname of “The Snake” for his cruelty, is said to have taken personal control of the operation and receive millions of dollars from the sale of the organs of the murdered Serbs.

Tonight the EU investigator, Dick Marty,  will have his press conference where he will provide details to back up this ascertation “Finally, we arrived at the conclusion that these events were known to many intelligence services from many countries. This was known to the police, to a large number of people, who would privately say, ‘yes, I am aware of that’, but who, for the sake of political opportunism, would decide to remain silent. Another revelation is that they include the territory of Albania. In that absolutely chaotic period in 1999 and 2000, that is, after the end of (NATO) bombardment and establishment of UNMIK, the KLA exercised power in the entire territory (of Kosovo), and that is when the crimes were committed. People were kidnapped, deported to Albania. You are aware that EULEX has opened an investigation related to secret prisons, Kukesh in northern Albania is mentioned there. What has shocked me is that most facts in this report were known to a large number of organizations, and yet that there was silence about it until this day. I believe that a future of a country cannot be built without truth, without insisting on truth and memory. There will never be peace between various communities if the principle of ‘not wanting to know’ continues,””  He has also been very critical of the Serb war crimes and details all of the atrocities in the Balkans, he favors no one. His report, which was just admitted to the EU is linked here.

Summary: According to the information gathered, numerous concrete and convergent indications confirm that some Serbians and some Albanian Kosovars were held prisoner in secret places of detention under KLA control in northern Albania and were subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, before ultimately disappearing. Numerous indications seem to confirm that, during the period immediately after the end of the armed conflict, before international forces had been able to take control of the region and re-establish law and order, organs were removed from some prisoners at a clinic on Albanian territory, near Fushë-Krujë, to be taken abroad for transplantation. 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 international organisations in place in Kosovo favoured a pragmatic political approach, taking the view that they needed to promote short-term stability at any price, thereby sacrificing some important principles of justice. Insufficient investigation has been carried out into the connection of KLA members with war crimes committed against Serbians and Albanian Kosovars. The team of international prosecutors and investigators within EULEX which is responsible for investigating allegations of inhuman treatment, including those relating to possible organ trafficking, has made progress, particularly in respect of proving the existence of secret KLA places of detention in northern Albania where inhuman treatment and even murders are said to have been committed.

We must fight uncompromisingly against impunity for the perpetrators of serious human rights violations. The fact that these were committed in the context of a violent conflict could never justify a decision to refrain from prosecuting anyone who has committed such acts. There cannot and must not be one justice for the winners and another for the losers.

The member states of the European Union and the other contributing states should set EULEX a clear objective and give it the necessary political support to combat organised crime uncompromisingly, to ensure that justice is done, without any considerations of political expediency; Albania and the Kosovo administration should co-operate unreservedly with ongoing and future investigations.

Well, it gets worse. There are plenty of links below to the following facts: These organs went to America, Europe, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and I am sure elsewhere.  Closer to home, remember the Orthodox Rabbis and political leaders that were convicted of Organ trafficking in the US some years ago? They received some of these organs, and illegal organs from elsewhere, so much for being holy men *spit*, i hope you all rot in prison. One of the lead doctors in Albania is a Brazilian, nice work Catholic man, how can you call yourself a doctor? Also people from all over the world traveled to Eastern Europe with their surgeons to get these organs. I expect this kind of behavior from muslims, but not from Judeo-Christian Westerners.

The irritating facet of all of this is the silence…no one wants to discuss it in the press, nor do they want to admit that this inhumanity can be laid at the feet of the West. The cowards in Europe did nothing in the Balkans, then the US went in  under Clinton and Bush and propped up the criminal enterprise that is Kosovo. Our entire endeavor there is disgraceful at the least, immoral all around, and sinful at the worst. This report shows that both Clinton and Bush and the boots on the ground knew about this and did nothing. In the end, all will have to answer to God for this becasue we are probably going to be too cowardly to take action on this.

We, in the West, are guilty of supporting islamic war criminals at the cost of Christian lives for political expediency. We are guilty of remaining quiet. Not one group is innocent here, Christians, Jews, muslims, Atheists, everyone is guilty. I wonder if the world would have treated this differently if it weren’t Orthodox Serbs getting their kidneys ripped out so that the KLA and our boy Prime Minister Hashim Thaci could make some cash? This disgusts me. Way to go Clinton, Holbrooke,  and Bush, I am not a proud American today.

Here is a big ball of links for background and to document what I have written, peruse through them.

Also read:  Empowering the Body Snatchers:
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/empowering-the-body-snatchers-washington%E2%80%99s-appalling-kosovo-4650

Holbrooke’s Little Helpers: http://www.electricpolitics.com/2010/12/holbrookes_little_helpers.html

Follow-up to Kosovo ORGANized Crime: http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress/?p=2530

Kosovo’s Organized Crime Burden: http://serbianna.com/analysis/?p=796

and: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/01/19/EU-looks-into-organ-trafficking/UPI-22191295450600/

Del Ponte Banned from Promoting Book by Swiss foreign ministry. http://iwpr.net/report-news/del-ponte-banned-promoting-book

Serb prisoners ‘were stripped of their organs in Kosovo war’ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/11/wserb111.xml

Serbs killed for organs in 99? ekathimerini.com | Serbs killed for organs in 99?

Turning a blind eye for political expediency: http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Turning-a-blind-eye-for.3960527.jpg

Evidence of Kosovo Atrocities Committed by Muslims: http://www.rense.com/general81/atrc.htm

International Coverup on Serbian-Organ Harvesting; ‘Pro-American’ Kosovo Prime Minister Thaci Oversaw the Scheme
http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress/?p=1526

Bernard Kouchner involved in Albanian Organ Market:  http://dalje.com/en-world/bernard-kouchner-involved-in-albanian-organ-market/144108

Kosovo medics accused of trafficking kidneys: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11741964

Kosovo in ‘organ trafficking’ probe by Barnaby Phillips in Albania: http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/07/200972144332156231.html

Kosovo organ trafficking circle to face EU prosecution:http://www.newstatesman.com/europe/2010/11/group-kosovo-health-doctors

Thaci’s Regime of Butchers and Europe’s Moral Weakness:http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2010/12/23/thacis-regime-of-butchers-and-europes-moral-weakness.html

http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/NewsManager/EMB_NewsManagerView.asp?ID=6247&L=2

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmCtAkPLikw&feature=player_embedded

http://www.b92.net//eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=01&dd=23&nav_id=72298

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=12&dd=26&nav_id=71753

http://www.theage.com.au/world/organ-trafficking-rabbis-arrested-over-massive-crime-ring-20090724-dv50.html

http://www.slate.com/id/2223559

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/07/26/2009-07-26_rogue_kidney_brokers_resell_organs_fetched_from_poorest_nations_on_black_market.html

http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org/articles/qampadickmartycouncilofeuropespecialrapporteur