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REPUBLICAN RIOT (USA)
March 30th 2008 05:30:59 PM
Need a Liver? Kill a Serb.
Posted by Julia Gorin under Republican Riot
Well well well. For perhaps the first time in history, the mainstream media
have deemed the dismemberment of Serbs newsworthy. More accurately, they
have deemed newsworthy the dismemberment of the Serb and non-Serb victims of
our friends, and almost all living Albanians' great heroes, the KLA. (Recall
the crowds cheering "KLA! KLA! KLA!" last month from Tirana to Pristina to
Times Square. Below is just a taste of one of the many KLA activities they
were cheering.) The new information is revealed in the forthcoming book The
Hunt by Carla Del Ponte, former chief prosecutor for the Hague Tribunal. A
few reports, starting with - gasp - the AP (which both the International
Herald Tribune and Fox News deigned to carry):
Albanian trafficking in organs of killed Kosovo Serbs investigated
"Serbia's war crimes prosecutor is looking into reports that dozens of
Serbs captured by rebels during the war in Kosovo were killed so their
organs could be trafficked, the prosecutor's office said Friday.
"The Serbian prosecutor's office said it received 'informal statements'
from investigators at the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, that
dozens of Serbs imprisoned by Kosovo Albanian rebels were taken to
neighboring Albania in 1999 and killed so their organs could be harvested
and sold to international traffickers.
"Bruno Vekaric, the Serbian prosecutor's spokesman, said later on B92 radio
that Serbian war crimes investigators have also received their own
information about alleged organ trafficking, but not enough for a court
case. Vekaric said Serb investigators also received reports suggesting there
might be mass graves in Albania containing the bodies of the Serb victims.
"Serbian media reported that the issue was brought into the open in a book
written by former U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte that is to be
published in Italy on April 3.
"According to Serbia's Beta news agency, which carried parts of the book in
Serbian, Del Ponte said her investigators had been informed that some 300
Serbs were killed for organ trafficking.
"The Beta report quoted Del Ponte as saying in the book that her
investigators were told the imprisoned Serbs were first taken to prison
camps in northern Albania where the younger ones were picked out, and their
organs were later sold abroad.
...
"Beta reported that Del Ponte says in her book that tribunal investigators
looking into alleged war crimes by the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army were not
able to complete a case on the organ trafficking claims and bring it to
trial.
The Beta report:
"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 [the] 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 [does] not specify their names.
"She further writes that a group of 'reliable' journalists told the
investigators and UNMIK officials that in [the]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."
Byzantine Sacred Art blog has more: A Glimpse at the Harrowing Truth: What
happened to Kosovo Serbs Kidnapped by KLA?
The Real Women in Black: Serbian women seek the truth about their children,
brothers, sisters and husbands missing in Kosovo province
"Over 1,300 Kosovo Serbs, in addition to those.whom we know have been
killed and whose remains were handed over to their families by the UNMIK
during the past 8 years, are still listed as missing. In some cases the
entire families were kidnapped by the KLA/UCK at some point during the
1998-1999 war and after UN/NATO took over the administration and security of
the southern Serbian province.
"Over the years, we have learned that a number of kidnapped Kosovo Serb
girls and women have been used as sex slaves, kept under the lock and key in
the dark, moldy cellars of Albanian bar and brothel owners, underfed,
repeatedly raped and beaten, until they are deemed no longer useful and
killed like dogs.
"There were also reports in the Serbian media about Kosovo Serb boys and
men being forced to work in unsecured, illegal private mines, but with
uncooperative UNMIK and indifferent KFOR (NATO) no investigation was ever
initiated, and Serbian families of the Kosovo-Metohia missing are still
without answers.
"Now, however, the much discussed Carla del Ponte's book "The Hunt" offers
a harrowing detail, revealing why Serbian men [have] been kidnapped
throughout Kosovo province during past years instead of being killed on the
spot, as is the usual KLA treatment for all non-Albanians, especially those
of Serbian ethnicity: because they were used as a livestock for organ
harvesting in the illegal trade with human organ transplants.
"According to Glas Javnosti, writing about one of the failed investigations
regarding the fate of around 300 abducted Kosovo Serbs who were taken to
northern Albania, Del Ponte says that the kidnapped young men were not
beaten and were well fed. There was an improvised surgery room in one of the
houses, where young Serbs had their internal organs removed to be shipped
over the Tirana airport "Mother Teresa" abroad, where the organs of the
healthy young Serbs were sold.
"The victims who had only one kidney removed during the first carve-up were
sutured and returned to imprisonment, to live until they would get killed
for their other vital organs, when the right buyer is found. According to
Carla del Ponte, the Serbs held in this monstrous human stable Josef Mengele
would envy, begged to be killed.
"Sworn Serbian enemy, Del Ponte describes Kosovo-Metohia province under the
KLA/NATO rule as a land with no laws and institutions, [a] land of blood
feuds, ruled by the thugs who present themselves as heroes of the "suffering
Albanian people". She claims that UNMIK and KFOR officials, and even some
ICTY judges in the Hague, are fearful for their lives if connected to the
KLA/UCK crime investigations, and feel threatened by the 'Albanian reach'.
"In her book, Del Ponte says that those few and far between investigations
of the terrorist KLA were the hardest during her appointment as the ICTY
chief prosecutor, that her researchers were confronted by the clans,
vendettas and political pressures, and that "policemen from Bern and
Brussels and all the way to Bronx" are well aware about the insurmountable
difficulties when it comes to the attempts to investigate Albanian organized
crime."
Del Ponte traveled in 2003 to the alleged sites of the crime:
"'We are checking some informal statements we obtained through operative
work that, in 1999, two trucks carrying imprisoned Kosovo Serbs were sent to
Albania,' said War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic.
"He said that the informal information had been obtained from Hague
Tribunal investigators. According to those sources, there are unregistered
mass graves with bodies of murdered Serbs in Albania.
...
"One group was held in barracks behind a yellow house some twenty
kilometers to the south of that town [Burel, Albania], states the former
prosecutor.
"One room in that yellow house, according to the journalists, served as an
operation room where doctors extracted prisoners' organs.
...
"Daily Vecerenje Novosti brings more details from the book, which says that
the Hague and UNMIK investigators, and several journalist, along with an
Albanian prosecutor, made a trip to the yellow house in 2003.
"'It was now white,' Del Ponte writes. 'Despite the fact that investigators
discovered traces of yellow paint on it, the owner denied it was ever
repainted.'
"In its vicinity, investigators also found pieces of gauze, used syringes,
two plastic IV solution bags, 'petrified in mud', empty medicine bottles,
including muscle relaxants used during surgeries. [Thank god for Greater
Albania's waste-disposal problems!]
"Inside the house itself, forensics discovered traces of blood on the walls
and on the floor in one of the rooms. A section of the floor, sized 180 by
60 centimeters, was clean.
"'The owner of the house offered a series of explanations to the
investigators when it came to the origin of the blood traces. First, he said
that his wife gave birth in that room many years ago. But when the wife made
her statement and said that all their children were born elsewhere, he
claimed that his family used the room to slaughter animals in order to
celebrate a Muslim holiday,' Del Ponte writes.
"As for the Albanian prosecutor who accompanied them, the former chief
Hague prosecutor says he at one point bragged he had cousins who were KLA
members.
"'There are no graves of Serbs here,' the Albanian official said. 'But, if
they took the Serbs from the Kosovo border and killed them, they did the
right thing'.
"Del Ponte writes that detectives had had to give up on this case because
further investigation had proved 'impossible'."
Related: Kosovo PM admitted atrocities, prosecutor
"UN personnel feared for their lives in Kosovo while some of the judges
presiding over the Hague Tribunal for former Yugoslavia were in fear from
Kosovo Albanians that have committed atrocities against Serbs and that is
why very few cases of Kosovo Albanian war criminals have been prosecuted,
writes Carla Del Ponte, former Chief Prosecutor of the UN Tribunal, in her
new book.
"'I am sure that some of the top UNMIK and even KFOR officials feared for
their lives and the lives of their missions' members,' says Del Ponte.'I
think that some of the judges of the Tribunal for Yugoslavia were afraid
that the Albanians might come and get them,' writes Del Ponte.
"In her book, Del Ponte details her meeting with the current so-called
Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, at the 5th Anniversary of the Dayton
Peace Treaty that ended the Bosnian conflict and says that, while sitting at
a table, Thaci admitted to her that Kosovo Albanians committed atrocities.
...
"'I looked him in the eyes and told him that I have launched the
investigation over crimes that the Albanians had committed in Kosovo. I have
not said a word implying indictment against him, but Thaci certainly
concluded that I had done so since his face turned into stone,' Del Ponte
writes.
"Del Ponte also notes in her book Hashim Thaci and Agim Ceku are considered
by UNMIK and KFOR as 'more than dangerous in the peaceful efforts in the
Balkans'.
"'Thaci and Ceku, in theory can stir up the minority Albanian rebels, to
start violence in Macedonia, South Serbia and other regions,' writes Del
Ponte in her book reports news agency BETA."
If one were to follow any of the proceedings at the Hague court, he or she
would be amazed to see just how nicely the Serb-hanging intent of that
tribunal backfired. (While still hanging a few Serbs, guilty or not.) Del
Ponte's revelations are only the tip of the iceberg.
When we carved up Yugoslavia (though I could use the present tense), we also
carved up actual people. Way to go, America. As we continue to enable
brutality against the people who were the second-most brutalized party
during WWII*, I say to my fellow Americans: Enjoy your new Albanian friends.
You've earned them. But not to worry: As long as we keep feeding them Serbs,
American organs should be safe. However, whether we keep our new masters - I
mean, friends - happy or not, their plan is indeed to move on with the
Greater Albania project which, as Ms. Del Ponte said, includes western
Macedonia, southern Serbia, but also Montenegro and parts of Greece. So what
happens when America and the international community call it quits on that
project? Will we finally figure out that spilled Serbian blood is followed
by the spilled blood of the rest of Western civilization?
*The reason that the Croatians didn't kill as many Serbs and Jews in the
Jasenovac camps as the Germans killed Jews and others in the German-run
camps, is that rather than gassing or gunning down the Serbs, Croatians were
savoring each kill by hand. From The Jerusalem Post, International Edition,
week ending December 21, 1991:
"Goebbels lives - in Zagreb"
"While not using the sophisticated extermination methods of the Germans,
the Ustashi, the Croat Fascists, greatly outdid the Germans in their
cruelty. Most of the killings were done with cold steel; if there was enough
time, the Ustashi would also dismember their victims using handsaws."
Above: More Serbs wondering about the fates of their family members. Note:
In the wake of Kosovo's declared independence, the three-finger sign of the
raised Holy Trinity seen here was referred to by at least one reporter
(Catherine Philp of the London Times) as the Serbs giving a "Nazi salute":
"There, as in Mitrovica, they chanted 'Serbia forever' as they raised their
hands in a Nazi salute."
The Trinitarian affirmation is Christian, not Nazi (though journalists often
don't see a difference between those two either). Swiss guards at the
Vatican hold their hands the same way when they take their oath of service.
Aside from Nazi references, other requisite terms for describing Serbs,
currently being recycled, include projections such as Serbian "extremists"
and "nationalists" - with no mention of the Albanians' hyper-nationalist
nature, their Nazi history or extremist ties. It all adds up to a newly
paved road for the next round of Kosovo-Serb organ harvesting. The shots
have already been fired.
