Albanians block EU organ harvest probe

Serbianna.com via Xinhua ^ | Aug 12, 2009

[montyspython]

Albanians block EU organ harvest probe
Aug 12, 2009

The European Union (EU)’s efforts to probe the Serb allegations that Serb civilians had been kidnapped in Kosovo in 1999, taken to Albania and had organs removed ran into obstacles in Albania where angry local people blocked the investigation, local media reported Tuesday.

A family in northern Albania on Monday refused to meet the Council of Europe team to investigate the Serb allegations that their house had been used as a makeshift clinic to harvest organs from Serbs abducted during the 1999 conflict between the Serbs and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

The family from the village of Rripe in the northern Mat region said that they had never harmed anyone and that their reputation had been tarnished by the allegations.

Television footage from the village of Rripe showed angry villagers blocking the visitors in a standoff.

Previously, UN investigators searched the family’s house in 2004 for evidence of organ harvesting. They found blood stains, gauze and syringes, which the family claimed were left-over from a family birth. The case was then dropped for lack of evidence.

The allegations resurfaced last year when Carla Del Ponte, the former chief United Nations prosecutor for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, claimed that in the closing days of the Kosovo conflict, hundreds of civilians were reportedly kidnapped by Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas and transported to neighboring Albania.

In his book, “The Hunt: Me and the War Criminals,” Ponte said that dozens of Serb civilians were killed and their organs harvested to be sold abroad. The victims included Serbs, Russians, and at least one Albanian.

The Albanians have vehemently denied the claims. Foreign Minister Lulzim Basha last year denounced the allegations as “fabrications and absurdities ,” saying they were intended to smear the image of Kosovo and Albania.

August 11, 2009
Xinhua

[montyspython]

Kosovar Albanians covering up their crimes, what else is new...

[Kolokotronis]

Big surprise! /s

[TomOnTheRun]

This is going to go very well for everybody involved! =D

They could let the investigation continue and, if guilty, face the penalties or they could be hounded about it for the rest of their lives. Living in shadows and constantly wondering if that man walking down the sidewalk is a relative of somebody they harvested organs from. Eurpose isn't that big and the internet makes things smaller and smaller every day.

[Texas Fossil]

I agree with you they are simply covering up.

Carla Del Ponte was chief prosecutor and no friend of the Serbs.

Those allegation coming from her, have some weight.

Atrocities have a long history in the Balkans.

[montyspython]

The Kosovar Albanians area protected class, a criminal class protected by your tax dollars.

[TomOnTheRun]

The Kosovar Albanians area protected class, a criminal class protected by your tax dollars.

I'm not familiar enough with this. I have only some background on the matter. Why do you feel they are being protected? Have they provided some useful service or goods that we look the other way at things like this?

[montyspython]

They were paid patsies in a faux war against "communism" started by the liberals. A continuation of the bullshit Bosnian policies we concocted back in the early 90's and the propaganda campaign that ensued as a result.

We made friends with the same type of people that helped bring down our twin towers but continue to deny and obfuscate our on complicit involvement with enabling terrorists when we "require" their services for our own ends.

[TomOnTheRun]

We made friends with the same type of people that helped bring down our twin towers but continue to deny and obfuscate our on complicit involvement with enabling terrorists when we "require" their services for our own ends.

Gotcha.