Kosovo's PM implicated in human organ running, drugs trade

[Cain]

Surprised?  In my case, not about the drugs, but definitely about the human organs.  Especially since they were not donated willingly.

http://assembly.coe.int/CommitteeDocs/2010/20101218_ajdoc462010provamended.pdf

Former KLA leader and current PM Hashim Thaçi is the head of a mafia-like group which emanates from the inner ranks of the Kosovo Libertation Army (connected to both the CIA and Islamist terrorism in South East Europe) and has support from major political backers in the country. 

Dick Marty is a name some of you may recognize, he is the Swiss national chosen to investigate the CIA rendition flights in Europe.  He is a very credible investigator, and his involvement in this case only lends weight to the evidence already obtained.

Serbs and Roma were captured, kept hidden from NATO troops, sent across the border to Albania and then sorted on the basis of sex, age, ethnicity and health.  Some of the captives were sold by the KLA to the highest bidder.  Once the transplant surgeons were confirmed to be in place, the KLA would drag the victim out, execute them with a shot to the head, and transport the corpse to the operating clinic.

Auctions were frequent, and this international network still exists and is currently in operation.

After Kosovo de facto broke away from Serbia in 1999, the trade only got worse, with traffickers setting up as legitimate businesses, luring travellers from both Eastern and Western Europe into their clinics with incredibly high prices (£76,400 for a kidney, for example).  Those who escaped alive are the lucky ones.

The main players in this grisly trade appear to be, aside from the PM

- Moshe Harel, an Israeli said to have matched donors with recipients
- Yusuf Sonmez, possibly the world's most renowned organ trafficker
- The Medicus clinic just six miles away from Pristina, supposedly founded by university hospital urologist Dr Lutfi Dervishi, and a former permanent secretary of health.
- Shaip Muja, a former KLA "medical commander" who was based in Albania and currently serves as "a political adviser in the office of the prime minister, with responsibility for health".

International investigations have been shut down before by the Prime Minister and his close allies.

Additional links

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/14/kosovo-prime-minister-llike-mafia-boss
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7990984.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/world/europe/16kosovo.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/14/illegal-organ-removals-charges-kosovo

[LMNO]

Serbs and Roma were captured, kept hidden from NATO troops, sent across the border to Albania and then sorted on the basis of sex, age, ethnicity and health.  Some of the captives were sold by the KLA to the highest bidder.  Once the transplant surgeons were confirmed to be in place, the KLA would drag the victim out, execute them with a shot to the head, and transport the corpse to the operating clinic.

Holy shit.

[Cain]

Oh oh oh!  You know the very best part?

Most of the "nationalistic" leaders of the wars which led to the breakup of Yugoslavia in the first place aren't really nationalists at all.  Most of the major factions are very chummy behind the scenes.

Most shocking of all, however, is how the gangsters and politicians fueling war between their peoples were in private cooperating as friends and close business partners. The Croat, Bosnian, Albanian, Macedonian, and Serb moneymen and mobsters were truly thick as thieves. They bought, sold, and exchanged all manner of commodities, knowing that the high levels of personal trust between them were much stronger than the transitory bonds of hysterical nationalism. They fomented this ideology among ordinary folk in essence to mask their own venality. As one commentator described it, the new republics were ruled by "a parastate Cartel which had emerged from political institutions, the ruling Communist Party and its satellites, the military, a variety of police forces, the Mafia, court intellectuals and with the president of the Republic at the center of the spider web...Tribal nationalism was indispensable for the cartel as a means to pacify its subordinates and as a cover for the uninterrupted privatization of the state apparatus.

So it wasn't even as if the KLA viewed the Serbs and Roma as untermenschen to be exterminated.  This was all about the profit.

[Adios]

This makes me ill.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Fuck.

[Phox]

 

[Cain]

Hey kids, which three letter agencies with dodgy backgrounds and even more dodgy personnel were best buddies with the KLA and their band of merry thugs in the 1990s, when they were causing havoc and stress to a longstanding Russian ally in the Balkans?

I doubt very much the CIA, BND or MI6 were unaware of the kind of people they were doing business with.

[Phox]

Hey kids, which three letter agencies with dodgy backgrounds and even more dodgy personnel were best buddies with the KLA and their band of merry thugs in the 1990s, when they were causing havoc and stress to a longstanding Russian ally in the Balkans?

I doubt very much the CIA, BND or MI6 were unaware of the kind of people they were doing business with.

Not that this is all that surprising... but. Motherfuck. 

[Cain]

Oh yeah, we've got some great friends down that way.  Like Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia, who helped orchestrate false-flag bombings against his own people, attributed to Serbs, so the Western media would report more sympathetically on his own government.

Or all those crazy Croat death-squad leaders who used Ustashe-era symbology and propaganda.

Great friends.  Not really the sort of people you'd invite to a party though.  Unless you wanted the dog shot and the party guests strangled with their own entrails.

[AFK]

Kind of makes Radovan look a little saintlier.  Ok, not really, but damn!

[Jenne]

Oh yeah, we've got some great friends down that way.  Like Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia, who helped orchestrate false-flag bombings against his own people, attributed to Serbs, so the Western media would report more sympathetically on his own government.

Or all those crazy Croat death-squad leaders who used Ustashe-era symbology and propaganda.

Great friends.  Not really the sort of people you'd invite to a party though.  Unless you wanted the dog shot and the party guests strangled with their own entrails.

The atrocities that have piled up on these particular plates is astonishing and sickening, even for those who are very very jaded.  That high horse the West was riding about tyranny and backyard atrocities that other nations turn a blind eye to?

Yeah, that horse is dead.  Shouldn't be around walking amongst the living for some time.

[Triple Zero]

Holy crap. The people closely involved in this must be complete psychopaths. I mean, of course it's technically the same to order bombings regardless of civilian collateral or whatever, but I can sort of explain that by (twisted) military training to follow orders and being somewhat (twistedly) removed from the victims, but murdering people for their organs is a whole different ballgame (even though the outcome--innocent dead people--is the same).

After Kosovo de facto broke away from Serbia in 1999, the trade only got worse, with traffickers setting up as legitimate businesses, luring travellers from both Eastern and Western Europe into their clinics with incredibly high prices (£76,400 for a kidney, for example).  Those who escaped alive are the lucky ones.

Wait you mean that people came there for a transplant, they probably faked the operation went bad, and the patients got harvested for (presumably other) organs??

[Cain]

That likely happened, yes.

[BabylonHoruv]

Holy crap. The people closely involved in this must be complete psychopaths. I mean, of course it's technically the same to order bombings regardless of civilian collateral or whatever, but I can sort of explain that by (twisted) military training to follow orders and being somewhat (twistedly) removed from the victims, but murdering people for their organs is a whole different ballgame (even though the outcome--innocent dead people--is the same).

After Kosovo de facto broke away from Serbia in 1999, the trade only got worse, with traffickers setting up as legitimate businesses, luring travellers from both Eastern and Western Europe into their clinics with incredibly high prices (£76,400 for a kidney, for example).  Those who escaped alive are the lucky ones.

Wait you mean that people came there for a transplant, they probably faked the operation went bad, and the patients got harvested for (presumably other) organs??

All of this is fucked up, but that last part is kind of awesome, in it's fucked up way.

People came in to get an organ that had been harvested from someone transplanted into them, and instead their own organs got harvested.  Pretending for a moment that they knew the organs were black market that has  poetic justice quality to it.

Unfortunately they probably had no idea in most cases.

[Golden Applesauce]

I'd guess many of them did, but really needed whatever organ it was.

The explant victim is already screwed over, and if they survived they sure aren't getting their kidney back.  But my daughter is dying right now and the wait list is to long...