Posted on 02/09/2011 3:06:27 PM PST by Ravnagora
In Strasbourg on January 25th the Council of Europe voted to formally endorse Swiss senator Dick Marty’s report on organ-trafficking by the KLA mafia that the U.S. installed to run Kosovo. The resolution calls for an investigation by international judicial bodies as well as one by Albania (keep dreaming) into various serious crimes in post-war Kosovo.
At the PACE meeting (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe), the Albanian delegation tried to water down the resolution, with some lawmakers trying “to either postpone debates on the issue or somehow smooth out the report’s rather tough formulations,” Voice of Russia paraphrased Russian rep Dmitry Vyatkin as saying. “It is clear that neither Kosovo nor Albania will help the investigation, but will instead try to conceal or destroy all evidence. We also should not rely upon NATO occupation forces, which are also hardly interested in the probe’s success…”
That’s certainly not news to Balkans observers, and helps explain why, while denying the accusations and denouncing Marty, Kosovo “prime minister” Thaci feels safe in expressing support for an investigation. “Albania has also said it would support a probe, either by EULEX or the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, in The Hague,” according to the Center for Investigative Reporting.
The Albanian confidence in institutions like EULEX and ICTY is well placed. The ICTY has proved its loyalty over the years to Albanian and other anti-Serb ethnic causes, and EULEX of course is based in Kosovo, where it can easily be “gotten” to, as former chief ICTY prosecutor Carla del Ponte intimated in a recent interview in which she cited “the Tribunal’s own experience with intimidation of its witnesses in Kosovo. ‘I fear that EULEX will not be able to do this investigation because you can imagine the obstacles they would face...'
(Excerpt) Read more at juliagorin.com ...
Piano man myself.
This fiasco was Bill Clinton’s work, fighting the war on the wrong side and helping the Albanian Muslim drug-smuggling terrorists. The trade in body parts is just an extra crime on top of the rest.
But George Bush did NOTHING to reverse clinton’s evil misdeeds. And he signed on to handing over a stolen province to another country, against the basic principles of international law.
Very disappointing.
fyi, and likely good to ping the list which follows balkans items.
Ping!
Agree with every word you just said, Cicero. Thanks.
Russian rep Dmitry Vyatkin ... saying.
“It is clear that neither Kosovo nor Albania will help the investigation, but will instead try to conceal or destroy all evidence. We also should not rely upon NATO occupation forces, which are also hardly interested in the probe’s success…”
NATO is a moral and strategic train wreck at this point. It needs stake through the you know where...
Thanks, Wendy, but Ravna Gora has the list, too.
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