December 26, 2008, 9:12
http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/35306
Serbian war crime prosecutors have received new evidence that hundreds of Serbs had their internal organs removed and sold by ethnic Albanians during the Kosovo war. The UN document obtained through unofficial channels contains photographs of what are believed to be mass graves of the victims.
Film-maker
Ninoslav has put his life on the line to show the suffering of the
Serbian population in Kosovo, but fewer and fewer people want to
listen. Until now the West has ignored him completely and the Serbian
government would also prefer he kept quiet.
“We see that they were killed and
dumped. Now there’s legitimate concern that some of them had been used
to take organs and killed later on. Now we can only reconstruct this.
But what do we do today to make sure that a civilised solution to the
Kosovo crisis will be achieved?” says Randjelovic.
However now that everybody wants to close the files, new evidence has
emerged of what happened in Kosovo in 1999. Reports suggest Serb
prisoners of war were taken by the Kosovo Liberation Army to the
Kosovo-Albanian border.
In a place called ‘the yellow house’ their vital organs were cut out
and sold on the black market. The Serbian war crimes prosecution has
through its own means obtained photographs purported to show a nearby
mass grave and a report on the fate of these kidnapped Serbs.
“We have evidence that there was an
operating room in that yellow house. A UN Mission in Kosovo [UNMIK]
report, which we got through our own channels, said they found a couple
of bottles of penicillin there. There’s not enough proof to say there
was an operating room. From the report you can see that there were some
other medicines and containers for transporting the organs. There are
nine pages missing. The investigation is now on and we are trying to
find out what really happened,” said Bruno Vekaric, prosecution spokesperson for Serbia’s War Crimes Court.
The UN, though, denies knowing about any of this. UNMIK spokesperson
Russell Geekie said he has no information about this report.
“It may very well be an internal
report. You have to go to the UN headquarters to ask about it, but they
won't necessarily be able to divulge anything about an internal report,” he said.
RT contacted the UN but they referred us back to Geekie.
The story first came to light when former UN Chief Prosecutor Carla del
Ponte published her book earlier this year. For Russian journalist
Evgeny Baranov it’s not surprising. He’s been working on this story
since the war and the latest information just confirms what he
suspected all along.
“The first serious information came
in 2006. There is a town called Merderi at the administrative border
between Kosovo and Serbia, and at that time the international forces
were handing over remains of exhumed Serbs to Kosovo. Among the
relatives was this woman who hysterically tried to tell the journalists
gathered there that her husband had been gutted and his organs had been
taken to a hospital in Gnjilane in Kosovo. His organs had been sold and
his remains buried in the courtyard of the hospital. Everybody thought
she was insane until April this year,” Baranov recalls.
In November Kosovo police arrested two people, one Israeli and one
Turk, for illegal organ trafficking. They are currently under
investigation.
If this is true, it should not be surprising. There are tonnes of bad blood between everyone in the Balkans, which was why NATO's intervention was downright improper in many ways. What NATO did was essentially rewarding one of the warring factions who have had their own hands with ethnic cleansing, aside from the fact that NATO destroyed one of the largest economies in the region and sent millions into poverty. Not least the bad blood extends for centuries. What NATO did was step into the fray of a centuries old blood fight between warring factions in an attempt to spread influence.
Classic divide and rule.
...and Radovan Karadžić was charged for 'war crimes' against the Kosovans?
it's a sick world
Originally posted by googoomuck:...and Radovan Karadžić was charged for 'war crimes' against the Kosovans?
I don't think anyone would disagree that some individuals deserve to be charged for war crimes.
But you won't see any Kosovan war criminals charged for war crimes either. Just as you won't see George W. Bush in court for similar charges. The Law is merely a tool of convenience.