Posted on 03/20/2008 9:43:12 PM PDT by montyspython
Kosovo PM admitted atrocities, prosecutor
March 20, 2008
SERBIANNA
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 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.
Del Ponte's new book "The Hunt" details her work as the chief war crimes prosecutor for former Yugoslavia.
"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 Taci, at the 5th Anniversary of the Dayton Peace Treaty that ended the Bosnian conflict and says that, while sitting at a table, Taci admitted to her that Kosovo Albanians committed atrocities.
Those atrocities, also said Taci, were not done by the Kosovo Liberation Army, the KLA, of which he was the leader but, instead, atrocities were committed by regular civilian Albanians only dressed up in KLA uniforms.
"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.
Kosovo is a Serbian province whose illegal declaration of independence has been recognized by Washington.
Yesterday, President Bush has ordered an arming of the Kosovo Albanian government whose so-called Prime MInister was the former leader of the KLA.
Bush should be tried as a traitor along with Rice.
I wonder how much more we are not being told.
“I wonder how much more we are not being told.”
Very prudent.
I doubt the publication “Serbianna” is an unbiased source.
Supposed to be published 20 march...and at least some of the characters seem to want it delayed.
If Carla is coming clean now (at last, maybe, unbelievably) it'll be interesting to see if it actually happens as advertised.
Nice excuse...Where have I heard this before?
The son of a bi#ch, may she rot in hell with the rest of them.
Hmmmm. But let us not strictly take this one author’s word as fact.
Doubt all you want, Serbianna is only 1 source there is and will be many more if you care to look. Search is your friend.
my guess is that he will be...eventually.
Carla Delpone wrote a book...perhaps you...as an “unbiased” person would like to read it and tell us what she had to say about her experience with Thaci...what does Serbianna have to do with reporting on her book? That they are lying about what is in print...geesh...gimme a break.
Thaci should be tried, convicted, and then, if warranted, shot.
Are you saying that Carla Del Ponte is a Serbian propagandist? Keep on shilling.
I volunteer to do the honors.
Exactly, Carla Del Ponte has been one of the main driving forces behind prosecution of Serb War criminals— she if anything has been a scourge of the Serbs all these years.
For *Del Ponte* to come out like this and slam the KLA for war crimes, makes the credibility just about airtight.
Of course, for us here and most other Americans who have been paying attention, this is hardly news— the GI’s who’ve been serving in harm’s way in Kosovo, have seen the atrocities that the KLA thugs and terrorists have been perpetrating against the Serb civilians, to the point of being pushed to take matters into their own hands. Good for them.
What makes me most angry about this fiasco, is how much money the idiot government of the USA (along with those of the UK and Australia) are shelling out to support this Islamofascist narcostate in Kosovo, a center of human trafficking and guns as well as heroin. Even Kosovo’s neighboring Albanians doubt that it could be a viable state now— it’s basically depending solely on aid, and with 4/5 of the world refusing to recognize it, it never will be a state.
Yet we’re supposed to pay our tax dollars to support it???
Also, I find it odd how the USA under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will gleefully spend US taxpayer dollars to support an Islamofascist state with a proven record of butchering Christians within its borders, like Kosovo, but will look the other way when Christians in other countries are fighting for their own freedom.
Or even actively assist the murderers of the Christians.
Examples: The Christians in Sudan who’ve been suffering persecution and murder for decades now.
The Christians in Iraq who were targeted by the Mahdi Army and other death squads, which the Bush Administration did nothing to prevent, even while posting troops all through Baghdad itself.
And of course, the Naga Christians (mostly Baptists, in fact) in Nagaland, India, who were brutally occupied in 1947 by an Indian government they never wanted to be a part of, and have suffered persecution at the hands of both Hindus and Muslims:
India’s longest-running insurgency, Christians fighting for the survival of their people, and yet the Bush Administration as always ignores them and condemns them— even attempts to reward India with a (now failed) nuclear deal?
As always with the Clintons and the Bushes, no matter where they are, Christians get the shaft, while Muslims and Hindus get the favorable treatment.
It’s as though our government consciously hates the Christian peoples of the world no matter who’s in power, and does everything feasible to assist their foes.
We are supporting the protection of an oil pipeline so that we can curtail Russia’s energy business ambitions, the US does not give one rat’s ass about Kosovar Albanains. They just want a pliant bitch to do their bidding.
It would be ironic if she ends up losing her life for fingering others for atrocities against Serbs.
Search the Balkan threads here on FR, you’ll find a well spring of information.
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