Posted on 03/20/2008 11:21:39 PM PDT by King Lazar
The Hague Prosecution learned while investigating war crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army against Serbs and other ethnic communities that people that disappeared in 1999 in Kosovo were subjected to surgery in which their kidneys and other organs were taken from them and then the smugglers were selling them to foreign clinics, Carla Del Ponte, former chief prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal wrote in her book ‘Hunt’.
‘The victims were most likely abducted after NATO bombing when international peace-keeping forces were already deployed in Kosovo’. Even high KLA members were involved in the operation of smuggling of organs, Del Ponte writes but do not specify their names. She further writes that a group of ‘reliable’ journalists told the investigators and UNMIK officials that in summer of 1999 Kosovo Albanians transported by trucks about 300 abducted non-Albanians in camps in Kukes and Tropoja in the north of Albania. Younger and healthy prisoners were medically examined and detained in Burel and in the neighborhood. In one room that was used as an operating theatre, the surgeons were taking organs from the victims. Via Rinas airport near Tirana the organs were transported to clinics abroad for clients that paid for them. One source claimed to have personally participated in one of such deliveries at the airport. The victims left with one kidney were kept locked and later on killed for other organs. ‘Other prisoners in the barrack knew what was to happen to them’, Del Ponte wrote. Among female prisoners there were women from Kosovo, Albania, Russia and former Yugoslav republics. Two sources claimed to have been helping in the burial of victims at a nearby cemetery…
This sort of thing is a major business in China, and apparently happens frequently illegally in the US.
This is not the first story to document what has happened to the missing Serbs of Kosovo nor will it be the last.
Dude, where are your reading and comprehension skills? This is from Carla Del Ponte’s book, are you claiming that she is a Serbian propagandist now? What is it with you people, brain fart Friday?
Weakens? wtf????
Its nice to finally have some official documentation of these atrocities from a source that can’t be alleged to be pro-serb. However, I am totally confused as to what would inspire Carla Del Ponte to come clean on this stuff now. She has been total shill for NATO for the past many years why this sudden determination on her part to tell the truth. Any ideas?
It's possible there could be evidence on any recovered remains and bodies of organs missing, but I doubt these bodies would have been returned - and if so they'd probably be just bones or deteriorated to bad to find signs of what happened.
That's the problem with the Balkans - stories are often just that.
In the aftermath of 9/11, the authorities in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, looked to capitalize on the attack and thus sent Interpol a fax requesting an investigation into whether Mohammed Atta was in Bakotic (Bosnia) in 1999.
The simple fact that Interpol's investigation could find no evidence of Atta being anywhere near Bosnia was irrelevant as soon as the "Atta in Bosnia!" stories started to appear, and it was even introduced by Milosevic during his trial at the ICTY - in the form of a copy of the fax sent to Interpol by the Bosnian Serbs.
The same thing occurred in the immediate aftermath of the bombings in London and Madrid, though by that time the unwilling Western participants in the Serb's propaganda schemes had had enough of it and it cost the Republika Srpska's police chief his job.
It will be interesting to see where this leads, and whom Del Ponte identifies as the source of the allegations.
Somehow, the 9/11 attacks, are seemingly relevant to this particular discussion.
Well, that's a more general problem.
Specifically, it wasn't "stories" coming out of the Balkans that alledged that Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague prior to the build-up of the war.
Further, it was major US media sources that alledged that Atta was associated with the so-called "John-Doe #2" - who was supposedly involved in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Remember that?
They aren’t, and since Hoplite was an ardent cheerleader for Carla Del Ponte he should be condemning these acts and not attempting to apologize for them.
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