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
<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/21/europe/EU-GEN-Serbia-Organ-Traffi
cking.php>
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
<http://www.blic.co.yu/society.php?id=1811> : 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?
<http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2008/03/harrowing-truth.html>
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
<http://www.b92.net/eng/news/crimes-article.php?yyyy=2008&mm=03&dd=21&nav_id
=48671> 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 Vukèeviæ. 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 Veèerenje 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
<http://www.serbianna.com/news/2008/01838.shtml>
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 <http://www.blic.co.yu/society.php?id=1799> 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
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srbosjek> .
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
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3392492.ece?token
=null&offset=0> ) 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
<http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress/%20http:/www.usatoday.com/news/world/20
05-05-06-vatican-guards_x.htm> 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
<http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL2850319720080328>
.
http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress/?p=1524Republican Riot <http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress>
Saying it, so you don't have to.
March 30th 2008 05:30:59 PM
Need a Liver? Kill a Serb.
<http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress/?p=1524>
Posted by Julia Gorin under Republican Riot
<http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress/?cat=1>
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