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’House of horrors’: Serbians kidnapped for organs - Operated without narcosis !!

gar | 09.04.2009 09:17 | Repression | World

An old house in Albania has drawn worldwide attention with gruesome accusations that Serbian prisoners had their organs cut out to be sold on the black market for transplants. Serbian War Crimes prosecutors and UN investigators suspect Kosovo Liberation Army supporters of committing the alleged atrocities

Thaci with NATO leadership in Kosovo
Thaci with NATO leadership in Kosovo


House of horrors for SERBS- Serbians kidnapped for organs?
What is the role of Thaci ?
 http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=854749

An old house in Albania has drawn worldwide attention with gruesome accusations that Serbian prisoners had their organs cut out to be sold on the black market for transplants. Serbian War Crimes prosecutors and UN investigators suspect Kosovo Liberation Army supporters of committing the alleged atrocities. Serbian war crimes prosecutor Bruno Vekaric says he’s got more evidence for a story that keeps throwing up new twists. “We have evidence that there was an operating room in a certain yellow house,” Vekaric said. Last year, the former United Nations war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte claimed Serb war prisoners had been kidnapped for their body parts. But now it seems she knew only half the story. “An UNMIK (The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo) report that we got through our own channels said they found a couple of bottles of penicillin in that very house. There’s not enough proof to say there was an operating room, but the investigation is now on and we are trying to find out what really happened,” said the prosecutor.The alleged crimes took place in the remote villages of northern Albania. New evidence suggests the same could have happened in the country’s capital, Tirana, and even in Macedonia. According to Del Ponte, Serb prisoners were brought to Ripp village in 1999 by Kosovo Liberation Army fighters. She said they then cut out their organs and sold them on the black market, which provides around one-fifth of the 70, 000 kidneys transplanted around the world. The claims zero in on one house in particular, a house identified through satellite imagery. It’s well hidden, and has been dubbed “the house of horrors” or the “yellow house." It’s since been painted white, and the resident family is furious over the allegations.“Our family has lived in this house for generations, and we were all here during the time these crimes were supposed to take place, we haven’t done anything wrong,” said Mersim Katuci who lives in the “yellow house."But that’s not what United Nations investigators are saying. Five years ago, they conducted their own search, and found bloodstains on one of the basement walls, and medical equipment lying on the ground nearby: syringes, drip bags, and a muscle relaxant pump had been thrown there. “The blood stains are from when my daughter-in-law gave birth,” said Abdulla Katuci, another resident of the “house of horrors." “I’ve no idea where the medical equipment came from. We are innocent, simple people. If we are guilty, lock us up in chains, but this is worse – to have the accusations with no proof."
He says that as many as seventeen people from the UN came to their house. “They forced us outside for two days, and put strange chemicals around. They had shovels, and took some parts of my wooden floor with them. I don’t think anybody’s house in Albania has been checked like mine,” said Katuci. All of Del Ponte’s eight eyewitnesses have since disappeared. But they all claimed the same thing – that the killings took place in the basement of the house.One of the places the investigators checked was the local cemetery. They wanted to dig up the bodies here to see if there was any evidence. But the villagers were up in arms, and because they lacked proof, they had to bury the idea.Villagers are adamant the crimes could not have happened. They claim the area was almost impassable in those days, and point out that if something like organ harvesting was taking place, someone would have seen something.“Each day, they would drive to the border to look for proof of the genocide of Serbs. Scientifically, it’s impossible it happened there,” believes village doctor Agif Bruci. “An organ for transplant has to be done in a hospital. Why would someone choose a house so far away from any hospital or airport? What’s more, Albania only did its first kidney transplant this year, and with foreign assistance.” But the case is far from being closed and is being reexamined by the Council of Europe. And the European Union’s mission in Kosovo, Eulex, has just announced it plans to conduct its own investigation into a case that divides a nation and the international community
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The Serbians war prisoners , were abducted to Albania and Kosovo and in special houses were operated in most cases without even narcosis (Mengele style) and all vital organs were removed and sold in b;lack market. This is the way Thaci was financing his war in Kosovo.
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Carla Del Ponte, former prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), has exhausted the patience of the invariably calm Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, where she works. She received a message ordering her to immediately return to her position as ambassador to Argentina, and banning her presence at the launch of her new book, "The Hunt: Me and War Criminals," which was scheduled for early April in Milan. "Any public presentation of this work is incompatible with the author's status of a Swiss ambassador...Carla Del Ponte's book...contains statements, which are unacceptable for a representative of the government of Switzerland," department spokesman Jean-Philippe Jeannerat said in a special statement to the press on April 8. Any other diplomat would have been knocked out for a long time by this public reprimand, but not the Swiss Iron Lady. She calmly left Italy, and is supposed to have arrived in Argentina by now. Indeed, how does this pinprick compare with numerous awful nicknames that Del Ponte is bizarrely proud of? They were coined by all those she punished as a former Swiss Attorney General, and head of the ICTY (from 1999 to 2007). In her latter position, she was dubbed "New Gestapo," Italian Cosa Nostra called her "La Puttana," and Swiss bankers gave her the name of "Unguided Missile." But Del Ponte does not find these labels insulting because they only show how good she is at her job. Her former Italian colleague Giovanni Falcone called her the "incarnation of stubbornness," but she was unabashed. She has a strange attitude toward these assessments, but it is enough to see her in flesh and blood once, and many questions will disappear. Ponte's 416-page book about her work as the head of the ICTY was published in Italian by the Milan-based Fertinelli publishers, and has already been translated into English and French. For 20 euros, one can get an insight into the prosecutor's inner world. In general, her book is dry and would have been even drier if she had not had a co-author - New York Times reporter Chuck Sudetic. In principle, Del Ponte has not revealed any secrets. Serbian refugees reported that Kosovo Albanians cut the organs out of live Serbs, and shipped them to the West as donor organs for transplantations. But Serbs were not supposed to be trusted in the 1990s. The prosecutor's voice sounds more convincing, but suggests the following question - why didn't she do anything in order to find the culprits and punish them? Del Ponte claims that she could do nothing because it was next to impossible to collect evidence in Kosovo, which was swarming with criminals. Witnesses were intimidated, and even judges in The Hague were afraid of the Kosovo Albanians. She writes in her book that some of the tribunal's judges were afraid that Albanians would come deal with them. Yelena Guskova, a leading expert on the Balkans and head of the Balkans Crisis Center at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, is not the only one to find the tribunal a rather strange formation. She took part in its work during the trial of Serbian Gen. Stanislav Galic in 2003. This is what she said on the topic, "The tribunal was set up to justify NATO actions in Yugoslavia. Aggression was outlawed, but law was tantamount to punishing the 'guilty side,' which had been determined in advance. The tribunal's high-ranking members did not understand the gist of the process, but were juggling with the facts to accuse one of the sides. I had the impression that they were not competent enough. Some judges heard about the Balkans for the first time in The Hague. The tribunal's verdict, at least for the Serbs, was predetermined - all would be found guilty." It is hardly surprising that Del Ponte was chosen to deal with Yugoslavia in order to kill the Serbian reputation. There was no room for the "Unguided Missile" in Switzerland by the late 1990s. This is only natural considering that this tiny woman has enormous ambitions. She has always been aggressive in reaching her goals, and has brought the execution of law to the point of absurdity - even her colleagues wondered how she could eliminate even the smallest margin for common sense and justice between law and reality. Her career is filled with major cases, many of them political and bearing on scandals. Evil tongues say that Del Ponte could not conceal her delight in taking them over because they would give her a name. Some even insist that she was commissioned (Serbs had to be demonized), or passed biased verdicts (she does not conceal her dislike of Serbia and Russia), and that she was not the first fiddle in really serious cases. Del Ponte inquired into the Mabetex case in the 1990s, when Boris Yeltsin and his two daughters were accused of accepting payments for their personal expenses from that company - supposedly, more than one million dollars was spent on this. She also froze Swiss accounts of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. These cases would probably reveal interesting details if reviewed, but nobody wants to investigate them now

gar
- Homepage: http://garizo.blogspot.com/2009/04/house-of-horrors-serbians-kidnapped-for.html

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