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Posted on 02/16/2011 7:57:43 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
A classified document obtained by FRANCE 24 suggests the United Nations knew about organ trafficking in postwar Kosovo as early as 2003, five years before prosecutors in The Hague first raised the issue.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was expected to deliver a report on the situation in Kosovo to the Security Council in New York on Wednesday, reaffirming UN support for investigations into human organ trafficking during Kosovo’s postwar period.
But a classified document obtained by FRANCE 24 indicates the UN knew of trafficking well before the issue was first raised by Carla del Ponte, a former prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in her memoirs published in 2008.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE CONFIDENTIAL UN DOCUMENT The report, dating from 2003, is an incomplete compilation of investigations carried out by UNMIK, the UN mission in Kosovo. It describes organ trafficking that took place from 1999 to 2000, immediately after Kosovo's NATO-backed independence war.
The document, also obtained by the Italian news agency TMnews, details how senior commanders of the guerilla Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) obtained and trafficked organs out of Kosovo and Albania.
The alleged victims were mostly Serbian men, but also included young women from other Eastern European countries. They were taken to clandestine detention centres and private homes in Albania where their vital organs were extracted, leading to their death, the report says.
The classified document also describes cases of torture, execution and burial of Serbs as retribution for crimes committed against ethnic Albanians.
Withholding information?
The 2003 document has never been presented to the European Union’s police and justice mission in Kosovo (EULEX), which is in charge of investigating crimes committed during the war.
The first public allegations of organ trafficking by del Ponte gained little notice. But a report commissioned by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) – a prominent European human rights body – and authored by Swiss lawmaker Dick Marty in late 2010 gained much more attention.
At the time these crimes were allegedly happening, tens of thousands of troops were deployed in Kosovo by the UN, as well as the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and NATO, to ensure the security of civilians.
Seeing Bonly boy get zotted was one of my proudest days on Free Republic. Sunday, July 11, 2004!
This looks like a case of spousal abuse.
montyspython: Yes indeedy. Good one. I've missed your wicked wit.
Nice to "see" both of you again!
Hey you. You’re missing all the fun.
The evidence has become available to all - too late to stop the formation of this criminal narco state - and documents all show what was done to the Serbian people by the savage Muslim Albanians...who have been committing savageries for a long time.
Advice: You need to educate yourself if you are truly interested in facts. Otherwise you betray your bias in favor of Muslim goons.
....Seeing Bonly boy get zotted was one of my proudest days on Free Republic. Sunday, July 11, 2004!....
You’re absolutely RIGHT!!!!
But he kept coming back, over and over again, in different disguises.
I hope that the current idiot troll is not Ronly Bonly Jones in a new disguise. He’s not using the trademarked RBJ language—yet.
Besides that, his timing is off.
Good to have you back wonders, hope to see you around more often.
Haven’t seen you around on many of the Balkan threads, welcome to the meat grinder. You’ll notice there are plenty of so called “conservatives “ here on FR who will quickly turn up the apologetics for muslim filth when discussing Balkan topics. Quite sad really.
Look forward to your contribution.
Another apologist noob. Is this another RBJ come back tour?
please let me know about these threads as I met many good people over there and what happened IMO was pure B/S by our media
montyspython: Thank you, kind sir.
Honorary Serb: Nah, not RBJ. You’re right about the timing being off. RBJ had his/her/its keyboard set to full auto and liberally sprayed every Balkans thread he/she/it found. Glad I missed the reincarnations.
manc: I was over there too, in a slightly different time and place, but for some years during the conflict nonetheless. All you have to do is ask Bokababe or Ravnagora to add you to the ping list. They’re both very nice people. Glad you’ve joined us :)
BB
We pray especially for the Serbian victims and their families of this muslim horror state. We also pray for this country that has devolved into a entity that allows and supports these horrors.
Finally we pray that Kosovo will be liberated and returned to its homeland Serbia.
We should pray and also spread word of this horror story.
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