Carla Del Ponte, who stepped down in January as chief prosecutor at the Hague tribunal for crimes committed in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, said investigators found a house suspected of being a laboratory for the illegal trade.
A senior adviser to Hashim Thaci, Kosovo's prime minister and a leading member of the Kosovo Liberation Army which is accused of benefiting from the trade, yesterday denied the allegations.
"These are horrible things even to imagine," said Bekim Collaku. "But this is a product of her [Miss Del Ponte's] imagination."
Miss Del Ponte reports that the allegations were made by several sources, one of whom "personally made an organ delivery" to an Albanian airport for transport abroad, and "confirmed information directly gathered by the tribunal".
According to the sources, senior figures in the Kosovo Liberation Army were aware of the scheme, in which hundreds of young Serbs were allegedly taken by truck from Kosovo to northern Albania where their organs were removed. Miss Del Ponte provides grim details of the alleged organ harvesting, and of how some prisoners were sewn up after having kidneys removed.
"The victims, deprived of a kidney, were then locked up again, inside the barracks, until the moment they were killed for other vital organs. In this way, the other prisoners were aware of the fate that awaited them, and according to the source, pleaded, terrified, to be killed immediately," Miss Del Ponte writes.
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:00 am Post subject: Re: Serb prisoners were stripped of their organs in Kosovo
Organ-legging is happening all over the world. People (often the poor and homeless) are kidnapped and killed, and their organs are harvested for sale to the rich.
The brilliant science-fiction author Larry Niven foresaw this trend decades ago and wrote it into some of his stories. _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:41 am Post subject: Re: Serb prisoners were stripped of their organs in Kosovo
Certainly would like another source on this specific Kosovo issue, any independent source with documented autopsies of bodies missing parts? Otherwise just an inflammatory piece you can flip from any point of view, jews obtaining organs, arabs obtaining organs, muslims obtaining organs... name your villian.
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:44 am Post subject: Re: Serb prisoners were stripped of their organs in Kosovo
Its fairly well documented by primary sources (MD seeking political asylum/family members of prisoners etc) that China has engaged in this practice and probably does even today.
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject: Re: Serb prisoners were stripped of their organs in Kosovo
business is business
after they harvest their organs they should sell their meat to the butchers...capitalism baby yeaa!! _________________ Tyler_JC:
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:10 pm Post subject: Re: Serb prisoners were stripped of their organs in Kosovo
Heineken wrote:
Organ-legging is happening all over the world. People (often the poor and homeless) are kidnapped and killed, and their organs are harvested for sale to the rich.
The brilliant science-fiction author Larry Niven foresaw this trend decades ago and wrote it into some of his stories.
This is the logical trend of an economic system based solely on the commodification and then capitalisation of the full range of this planet's common resources. All the hand wringing in the world cannot and will not halt this compelling impetus as the desire to acquire capital supplants all other human impulses.
You can only halt this quite natural tendency by changing the ideas that motivate us and that requires, of course, the movement away from the allure of private capital. _________________ Bugger me, I hear oil's runnin out mate!
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject: Re: Serb prisoners were stripped of their organs in Kosovo
As bad, no, down right disgusting, as this type of activity is, the only way it could possibly be worse is if the organs were not sold, but, instead, eaten! (sorry, just finished reading "The Road!").
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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject: Re: Serb prisoners were stripped of their organs in Kosovo
Alcassin wrote:
"The victims, deprived of a kidney, were then locked up again, inside the barracks, until the moment they were killed for other vital organs. In this way, the other prisoners were aware of the fate that awaited them, and according to the source, pleaded, terrified, to be killed immediately," Miss Del Ponte writes.
Hhmm.. Sounds a lot like an incident in the novel, "The Road." _________________ "RRrrruuuunnnn!!!" ~Apocalypto
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