Posted on 01/28/2011 6:30:41 AM PST by Ravnagora
PARIS — The president of Serbia, Boris Tadic, lashed out at organized crime and its corrosive effect on the Balkans in a speech Wednesday, pressing for an international investigation of human organ trafficking in Kosovo and broad protection for witnesses.
He made his comments in Strasbourg before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which on Tuesday adopted an investigative report that has roiled the leadership in Kosovo. It alleged that Serb prisoners were killed at the end of the Kosovo conflict in 1999 to harvest organs for transplant for an organized crime group, Drenica, with ties to the current Kosovo prime minister, Hashim Thaci.
The Serbian president did not refer to Mr. Thaci by name in his comments, but he made a direct connection between the spreading influence of organized crime and the report on trade in human organs.
“The real purpose of organized crime is not just to live in parallel with legal society. Rather, it seeks to become society,” Mr. Tadic said, adding, “It subverts politics. It corrupts economies” and “it kills to steal parts of people’s bodies.”
The assembly — a pan-European organization that investigates human rights issues and makes recommendations — was also weighing three resolutions on Wednesday to strengthen witness protection in the Balkans, particularly in Kosovo, where the authorities lack funding and a specialized police force to prevent intimidation of witnesses.
Kosovo, a tiny nation of two million people and close-knit clans, is particularly problematic because “witnesses are often perceived as betraying their community when they give evidence,” according to a report prepared for the assembly by one of its members, Jean Charles Gardetto, of Monaco...
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“The real purpose of..
“ISLAM”..
is not just to live in parallel with legal society. Rather, it seeks to become society,” Mr. Tadic said, adding, “It subverts politics. It corrupts economies” and “it kills to steal parts of people’s bodies.”
Sorry but I had to change a couple of words to really bring light to what’s at fault in the Balkans.
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