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http://www.misteriditalia.it/ultimora/?p=998

Published on 22/12/2010 

Destano più di una preoccupazione i risultati ufficiali delle elezioni politiche svoltesi di recente in Kosovo, le prime dall’autoproclamazione dell’indipendenza. Lo stesso ministro degli Esteri italiano Franco Frattini, da sempre uno dei più ferventi sostenitori dell’integrazione nell’Unione europea dei paesi albanofoni, ha esortato gli osservatori internazionali a fare piena luce sui brogli dagli stessi denunciati un po’ in ogni parte del paese a partire dalla capitale Pristina.

La Commissione Elettorale centrale ha reso noto i risultati definitivi il cui dato più saliente è la forte avanzata dei nazionalisti albanesi che propugnano la formazione della tanto sognata “Grande Albania” che dovrebbe comprendere non solo il Kosovo e la Repubblica delle Aquile ma pure quella parte di Macedonia dove si concentra il credo religioso islamico e dove la popolazione è, per l’appunto, di stirpe albanese.Vetendosja, che nella lingua di Skanderbeg significa Autodeterminazione, ha conseguito oltre il 16% dei suffragi e non è un mistero che potrebbe andare a formare il nuovo governo insieme al Pdk (Partito Democratico del Kossovo) del premier uscente e trafficante di droga, armi ed esseri umani Hashim Thaci, già capo guerrigliero dell’Uck ai tempi della guerra di liberazione del Kosovo, fortemente filo- albanese. Il partito di Thaci è, infatti, l’altro grande vincitore della competizione elettorale truccata in cui ha riportato il 33,5% delle preferenze.

Sconfitto, ma bisogna ancora ben capire quanto i brogli abbiano pesato sul risultato finale, il moderato Isa Mustafa, Sindaco di Pristina, seguace del defunto Ibrahim Rugova, il “Gandhi dei Balcani”, che propugnava invece, per la sua terra, una soluzione condivisa tra serbi ed albanesi. Poi l’ala armata dell’irredentismo kosovaro, guidata da Thaci, come si sa ebbe la meglio anche a colpi di omicidi. Il partito di Mustafa, e cioè la Lega Democratica del Kossovo, si è infatti fermato al 23,6% dei suffragi. Anche i serbi kosovari domenica si sono presentati ai seggi, tanto che alla fine in certi comuni da loro quasi esclusivamente abitati la percentuale dei votanti ha sfiorato persino il 40% degli aventi diritto. Un successo se si considera che sinora gli slavi rimasti in Kosovo generalmente per protesta o sfiducia disertavano le urne. Molto probabilmente a questa minoranza verranno assegnati più dei dieci seggi al Parlamento che la Costituzione del paese le riserva.

Gravi disordini sono scoppiati subito dopo la proclamazione dei risultati per le strade di Pristina tra i seguaci di Thaci e quelli di Mustafa, che reciprocamente si auto- proclamavano come i vincitori della tornata elettorale.

Il fatto che l’81% della popolazione kossovara ed il 63 di quella albanese si siano pronunciate a favore del progetto “Grande Albania” ha fatto già drizzare le orecchie non solo al governo serbo ma pure a quello macedone, repubblica in cui il 25% della popolazione è di etnia albanese e desidera l’unificazione alla Madre-Patria. L’Albania è però un paese della Nato ed il suo avvallo a tale disegno destabilizzante per la regione potrebbe essere un azzardo imperdonabile ma il sospetto degli alleati occidentali di Tirana, e di molti dei 27 Paesi dell’Unione europea, è che dietro questo progetto stiano i paesi islamici del tutto interessati alla nascita di una grande nazione a maggioranza musulmana nel cuore d’Europa.

Fonte: Sergio Bagnoli

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24/12/2010 - Una delle piu’ importanti prove contro Hasim Taci e il suo „gruppo di Drenica“ che possiede la procura serba per crimini di guerra e’ il filmato registrato nella prigione Likovac nel comune di Srbica. Nel filmato si vedono appartenenti di quel gruppo criminale e quattro prigionieri serbi che sono stati sequestrati in Kosovo, scrive il quotidiano belgradese Blic. Il filmato e’ stato fatto dai membri della sedicente UCK nel maggio del 1998. Nel filmato si vedono anche Zarko Spasic, il quale e’ stato sequestrato il 14 maggio del 1998 mentre lavorava nella miniera Belacevac, il poliziotto di Gnjilane Deian Stojiljkovic, sequestrato il 19 maggio del 1998 mentre tornava in pullman dalla visita al cugino a Pec, Vladimir Spasic, sequestrato lo stesso giorno vicino alla citta’ di Komorani e l’operaio di Klina Miroslav Suljinic, sequestrato il 21 maggio nei pressi di Lapusnik. La salma di Suljanic e’ stata trovata nel 2005 nella fossa comune nei pressi di Lapusnik. Il cosiddetto gruppo di Drenica dell’UCK che attacava le citta’ e i villaggi ha sequestrato almeno 30 civili serbi e 11 civili albanesi e alcuni poliziotti. Le prove raccolte durante le indagini hanno dimostrato che questi crimini sono stati organizzati da Hasim Taci.  

Mosca: le accuse nella relazione di Dick Marty devono essere accertate

23/12/2010 - Mosca ha invitato l’assemblea parlamentare del Consiglio europeo ad avviare le indagini internazionali sul traffico di organi umani in Kosovo, al quale ha preso parte il suo vertice politico. Lo ha comunicato il rappresentante del Ministero degli Esteri della Russia Aleksej Sazonov, in  relazione dell’inviato speciale del Consiglio europeo Dick Marty. Sazonov ha detto che Mosca segue con attenzione la situazione, perche’ si tratta di crimini terrificandi e disumani, ai quali hanno partecipato le piu’ alte cariche politiche del Kosovo. E’ ovvio che sia necessaia una seria indagine internazionale, ha sottolineato Sazonov. Nella relazione di Marty, l’uscente premier kosovaro Hasim Taci e’ stato accusato di aver organizzato il traffico di organi umani, armi e stupefacenti in Kosovo e in Albania settentrionale.     

Gelbard: le accuse di Marty devono essere accertate

23/12/2010 - L’ex inviato speciale nei Balcani degli Stati Uniti Robert Gelbard ha dichiarato che le accuse pesanti nella relazione dell’inviato del Consiglio europeo Dick Marty sul commercio di organi umani in Kosovo devono essere esplorate fino in fondo. Egli ha sottolineato che esse non debbano bloccare l’avvio delle trattative tra Belgrado e Pristina. Le accuse contro il premier uscente del Kosovo Hasim Taci nella relazione di Marty sono molto serie e richiedono le indagini severe, ha dichiarato Gelbard alla radio La Voce dell’America. Egli ha salutato la decisione di Belgrado di non bloccare l’avvio del dialogo con Pristina dopo che la relazione di Marty e’ stata resa di pubblico dominio. 

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http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2010/12/20/stakes-getting-higher-in-the-game-around-kosovo.html

Strategic Culture Foundation - December 20, 2010

Stakes Getting Higher in the Game Around Kosovo

Pyotr Iskenderov

The Parliementary Assembly of the Council of Europe plans to discuss the crimes committed by Kosovo separatists at its January session.
Moreover, the PACE Legal Affairs Committee is calling “for a series of international and national investigations into evidence of disappearances, organ trafficking, corruption and collusion between organised criminal groups and political circles in Kosovo”. 
One might get an impression that - for the first time since the 1999 NATO aggression against Yugoslavia - Europe, which used to brush off Russia's and Serbia's suggestions that the Hague Tribunal take a closer look at the leaders of the self-proclaimed Kosovo's Liberation Army, somehow woke up to the Kosovo reality. 
So far, two episodes - the publication of former ICTY chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte's book containing revelations that human organ trafficking in Kosovo was sanctioned by Kosovo Liberation Army's top officers and the acquittal of one of those officers Ramush Haradinaj - epitomized the West's unsavory tolerance in the Kosovo case. In fact, even Swiss investigator Dick Marty's report that eventually drew PACE's attention to the rampant organized crime in Kosovo has been barely mentioned over the past several months in the Western media.
Oddly enough, the Kosovo problem is surfacing in the PACE, an organization which has never displayed much compassion for the Serbs. Marty's report about a criminal group from Drenica led by Hashim Thaci and the illicit organ trafficking in Kosovo portrays the picture with utmost clarity. Marty claims that the group continues to operate and even cites the Western democracies' support for Thaci in the current context.
The charges are not exactly new, and it may be more important at the moment to understand the motivation behind the investigation. Marty's report was voted in by the PACE Legal Affairs Committee unanimously, but the question persists: what explains the timing of the PACE interest in Thaci? The integrity of the Swiss investigator is beyond doubt, but we need to know whether his report will have far-reaching consequences and how far Europe is prepared to go in investigating crimes as monstrous as the Nazi medical experiments.
PACE's unanticipated realism is likely linked to the collapse of the secret plan the US and the EU attempted to implement during the talks between Belgrade and Pristina last fall. 
The West hoped to exact at least a de facto recognition of Kosovo independence from the Serbian president but – facing permanent pressure from the Serbian opposition – even the servile Tadic was unable to sign any accords with a figure as notorious as Thaci.
Therefore, Pristina needed a facelift to look like a more acceptable partner. This was the purpose of the planned overhaul in the ranks of the Kosovo administration: Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu's resignation was supposed to be followed by that of the province's premier, Hashim Thaci. Thaci, however, refused to leave, and a further entrenchment of radical Albanian groups in Pristina began to loom on the horizon. The West, preoccupied with convincing Belgrade to cooperate, launched a campaign targeting Thaci in response.
Washington's reaction to the recent elections in Kosovo may be another indication of the US's readiness to sacrifice Thaci. Unprecedentedly, US Department of State spokesman M. Toner called on the Kosovo electoral commission to probe into the serious abuses which took place during the elections. Washington's hint was that Kosovo would still be regarded as a democracy, but it would have to be a Kosovo without Thaci. The message was promptly picked up by the EU.
Obviously, believing that international law is about to be re-established in dealing with the Kosovo problem would be overly optimistic. Even if Thaci and his henchmen face justice, the US will do its best to divert the investigation from the broader Kosovo project. Sacrificing Thaci simply means that the stakes in the game around Kosovo are getting higher.

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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=12&dd=20&nav_id=71633
 
B92 - December 20, 2010

Ex-Hague prosecutor: NATO, KLA's ally

BELGRADE -- Former Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte told the Swiss Le Temps newspaper that NATO was an ally of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
Her compatriot Dick Marty, the Swiss senator appointed as CoE rapporteur, last week unveiled a damning report linking KLA to kidnappings of Serbs and other civilians in Kosovo and black market trade in their body parts.
Kosovo Albanian PM Hashim Thaci was named as the leader of a KLA group responsible for these and other serious crimes. 
The Serbian investigation, known informally as the Yellow House case, picked up in early 2008, after excerpts from Del Ponte's book were leaked to the media. 
"I am grateful to the Council of Europe and Dick Marty for deepening suspicions about the organ trade and publishing information that we did not possess. The EULEX mission has a basis to move forward," the former Hague prosecutor said. 
Asked about the evidence that was obtained by the Hague Tribunal, Del Ponte said that the court had testimonies of persons who transported prisoners from one prison camp to anther, and to a hospital, and that those were "very serious testimonies". 
"We also knew there were mass pits (graves) in Albania, where we perhaps could have recovered bodies that missed organs," she said. 
Del Ponte explained in the interview that The Hague-based UN war crimes court investigated disappearances of 400 persons and that there were indications that a group of about ten might have been the victim of organ trafficking. 
"But witnesses were intimidated and refused to repeat their statements before the Hague Tribunal. The traces of the crime were in Albania, but Albanian authorities refused to conduct an investigation, saying they already did so unsuccessfully. These events took place during the summer of 1999, after the hostilities. At that time the Hague Tribunal's expertise was doubted. UNMIK (UN mission in Kosovo) could have taken over the investigation, but did not do so," she was further quoted as saying. 
"We (the Hague) investigated many crimes against humanity. We did not have NATO's support because they were allies of the KLA. UNMIK did not give us documents that we needed. That was a huge problem," said Del Ponte. 
She added that "justice must be done, there cannot be talk about stability without justice, or acceptance of a criminal president", adding that she "hoped justice would be done". 

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http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20101221/161873184.html

Russian Information Agency Novosti - December 21, 2010

No more lies about the Caucasus or Kosovo

Dmitry Kosyrev

Dick Marty, who chairs the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), is traveling to Moscow and Tbilisi on December 20 and 21. At first glance, this long-planned visit seems routine and relatively minor. But on January 17, PACE will hold hearings on the humanitarian and other consequences of the Russian-Georgian war of August 2008. Marty is gathering information in cooperation with the Russian and Georgian parliaments for a document to be presented at the hearing.
This summer Marty wrote a report on human rights in the North Caucasus, meaning Russia. Surprisingly, for the first time in the 14 years that Russia has been a member of the Council of Europe, the Russian delegation to PACE supported a report on the region, albeit with some amendments and reservations.
The real headline, however, is the sensational report Marty produced last week alleging that Hashim Thaci, the current prime minister of the breakaway region of Kosovo, is a gangster with long-standing ties to organ, drug and arms trafficking, as well as prostitution. Moreover, everyone who made decisions on Kosovo during the war in 1999 also knew about Thaci's nefarious dealings.

Russia also knew 

The truth about Thaci and NATO's campaign against Serbia in 1999 are even more important for Russia than the reports on Georgia and the Caucasus. It was the events of 2008 - when the United States and Europe told lies to justify Kosovo's independence from Serbia - that poisoned Russia's attitude toward Europe. And these events ultimately trace back to 1999, as does the August 2008 war.
Unlike today, in 1999 Russia still had prominent international correspondents. The inertia of the glasnost era could still be felt, and many seasoned journalists were doing good work around the world. New correspondents were trying to steal the spotlight from their eminent predecessors.
Many Russian experts in international affairs worked in or visited the former Yugoslavia. I also went there, and I had no reason to doubt the reporting of our correspondents. Kosovo was front-page news at the time. A large section of the Russian public was aware of what was happening in Belgrade and Pristina.
We knew that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was a criminal organization that had been coordinating the seizure of Serbian land in Kosovo by ethnic Albanians for many years, that the attempts by Slobodan Milosevic to counter this creeping expansion were thwarted by the United States and Europe. We knew that Thaci and his colleagues bought weapons for the KLA using money from arms trafficking and other criminal activity. And that's not all we knew.
Now Marty writes in his report that U.S. and EU security agencies knew full well who Thaci was, but even ordinary Russians knew this back in 1999. We knew that apart from a narrow circle of officials, the public in the United States and the EU did not know about the true nature of the KLA and, as a result, they generally supported Kosovars over the Serbs. At that time, this realization came as a shock to Russians because we were still under the illusion that the Western media were the freest in the world, an example to the rest of us.
NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia, which began on March 24, 1999, shattered any remaining illusions about the Western media. And this launched an era of Russia's profound and almost irreversible mistrust of the words and deeds of the West.
If one side had simply started a war against the other, there would not have been this massive fallout. But in this case everything began with a massive lie, and people hate lies even more than aggression. It is an innately human reaction.

Laws of war 

The era of intractable mutual mistrust between Russia and the West lasted just under a decade, from the aggression against Yugoslavia until the very similar events of August 2008 (similar in the sense that in both cases, the public in the West was misinformed about the true nature of the conflict). In 2008, the public in the United States and the EU simply could not believe that Georgian troops were ordered by President Mikheil Saakashvili to attack Tskhinvali while innocent people slept. Some people do not believe this even now, even though evasive and half-hearted reports on this issue have been written and conclusions made. But nobody can admit on the record that Saakashvili was the aggressor, although a narrow circle of Europeans has known this for a long time. Marty has only just now denounced Thaci as a gangster, and his report has yet to produce any major repercussions.
Let's sum up this era of mistrust. We can do this now because after August 2008, Russia and the West agreed to at least resume dialogue, bringing the era to a close. The damage, however, has already been done. Now we have an entire generation in Russia that instinctively mistrusts "foreigners."
Any reasonable Russian politician remembers the lies of 1999 and 2008 and reacts accordingly. Lies are a weapon of war, and these two wars were born of a lie. For that reason, you should always question the other side's information and adhere to the laws of war, whether the information is true or only half true.
Russia-EU political ties, unlike economic ties, have become a masquerade. Both sides harbor ill feelings. Now Western politicians will have to face the anger of their voters, who were told all these years that Thachi (and Saakashvili) are angels and Russia is the devil.
Russian politicians with pronounced pro-American or pro-European views - or simply views popular in the West - went to their political deaths in 1999. The internal structure of Russian politics became distorted. There is now an uneasy balance between two poles - enlightened nationalists and die-hard nationalists, without anything in between.

Politicians know more than voters

There have been efforts to turn some major European and American politicians around on this issue since around the winter of 2008 and 2009, but there is one problem with that: Politicians have always known that Thachi is a gangster, that the destruction of Yugoslavia was very dirty business, and that attempts were made to pit some puppet regimes against Russia - in Ukraine and Georgia, for instance - to effect regime change.
It is easy for politicians to reach agreements because they know the real facts. It's part of their job. But what to do with a public that is a full era behind?
Marty's report is a step in the right direction because it speaks the truth. Organizations like PACE are not very influential in Europe. It is seen as a supranational parliamentary conference. And the Council of Europe is just that - only a council. But such forums are sometimes the only way to get the truth heard in Europe, be it the truth about Kosovo or the humanitarian situation during the August 2008 war.

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http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2010/12/23/thacis-regime-of-butchers-and-europes-moral-weakness.html

Strategic Culture Foundation - December 23, 2010

Thaci's Regime of Butchers and Europe's Moral Weakness

Anna Filimonova

The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) headquartered in Pristina was set up in December, 2008 and opened on April 6, 2009. 
Its stated objectives included assistance to Kosovo's authorities, legal institutions and judiciary aimed at forming and strengthening the province's multi-ethnic legal system and law-enforcement agencies. 
The EULEX priority tasks were to fight war crimes, corruption, organized crime, inter-ethnic crimes, money laundering, and terrorism as well as to help resolve various proprietary disputes. Therefore, one might expect EULEX to regard the crimes described in the now-famous Dick Marty's report to the Council of Europe as belonging to its sphere of responsibility. 
The report based on the investigation of the disappearance of some 500 people in Kosovo since the end of the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia contained data on the existence of a network of detention facilities operated by the Kosovo Liberation Army, the illicit extraction and trafficking of human organs, and the key role played by Kosovo's outgoing premier Hashim Thaci in organized crime in the province. The revelations about atrocities like forced extractions of organs caused a storm across the global media but, oddly enough, EULEX stated on December 21, 2010 that it would not investigate human organ trafficking in Kosovo as [the issue does not belong under] EULEX jurisdiction.
Considering that it is up to Washington to decide where the jurisdiction of EU institutions ends in Kosovo, the truth must be that all the EU is allowed to assist in is implementing the US strategy in the region, which at the moment is centered around dismantling the delimitation line between Kosovo's Albanian-populated south and the Serb-populated north.
EULEX officials shy away from commenting on Marty's report. Moreover, it transpired recently that even they are defenseless in Kosovo as EULEX Police Head of Executive Department James Albrecht, who was charged with the mission of investigating the organized crime network in the province, came under attack. 
Visiting Moscow on December 21, Marty spoke about the lack of protection provided to international justice officers and witnesses. He said court hearings are typically hard to organize given that even the Hague Tribunal was under permanent external pressure and people are too intimidated to trust national and international institutions alike. The trial of Ramush Haradinaj by the international Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was a vivid example of the situation: the prosecution witnesses never testified in court simply because all of them had been killed before the hearings opened. Marty said potential witnesses cannot present their testimonies because nobody is able to guarantee their safety.
There is information that, concerned over its own safety, the EULEX top brass considers leaving the heavily criminalized Pristina. As for Europe, it is already paying the price for complicity in building a criminal enclave in Kosovo. While infantile EU propaganda is touting “multi-ethnic and democratic Kosovo”, Interpol reports reflect the penetration of EU countries by Albanian organized crime, Kosovo's emergence as the key drug trafficking hub, and the increasing seizure of the European drug market by the Albanian mafia.
News resurfaced last December that some 400 DNA samples taken from crime victims in Kosovo in 1999 by the German police on the Hague Tribunal's request were destroyed. 
Reportedly, every Kosovo Liberation Army division in Kosovo and Metohija as well as in Albania maintained its own secret prisons where Serbs, Gypsies, Bosnians, Bulgarians, Romanians, Ukrainians, and other nationals were held (even former Albanian president Sali Berisha's ranch was converted into a prison). 
In other words, many of the facts unearthed by Marty did not come as a total surprise. A Serbian court charged Hashim Thaci with killing 661 Serbs and other non-Albanians, crippling 518 people, and kidnapping 584. Charges against Thaci also include the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Serbs from Kosovo since the advent of KFOR. In 2001, Serbia submitted to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia a 40,000-page report with evidence implicating Kosovo's Thaci-Ceku-Haradinaj permanent triumvirate. The total number of pages in Serbia's materials on crimes against Serbs supplied to the Tribunal almost reached 200,000.
Serbia's prosecutor for war crimes V. Vukevic investigated the genocide charges against former Kosovo Liberation Army commanders Thaci, Ceku, and Haradinaj in 2001, and Serbia's then-minister of justice V. Batic provided the resulting evidence to the head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo Harri Holkeri. 
A letter to Holkeri which became available to the media said the crimes against Serbs described in the report were the worst atrocities since World War II. The materials described over 7,000 proven cases of terrorist attacks which led to over 12,000 deaths, 1,350 injuries, almost 1,000 kidnappings, 340,000 expulsions of non-Albanians, the burning of 107,000 residences, and the killing of 70 children. Some of the victims were ritually beheaded and detention camps to hold Serbs were set up. The “international community” promptly intervened and had the investigation suspended.
US and NATO servicemen fully share the responsibility for the crimes. They bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days and then helped cover up the repressions against its civilian population. Nor did the UN officials put to work in the due time documents shedding light on the existence of secret detention facilities in the northern and central parts of Albania. 
The “international community” found no way to protect the lives and the rights of Serbs, other non-Albanians, and even, in some cases, Albanians in Kosovo. For over 6 years, the UN has been conducting a sluggish investigation into the torture and killings at secret Kosovo Liberation Army bases and Albanian prisons. A Peruvian anthropologist and chief of the UN unit investigating the disappearance of people claims that already in 2003 the UN was fully aware of what was happening.

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The US geopolitical objectives in the Balkan region are being put into practice based on cooperation in the framework of the Washington-Tirana-Pristina triangle. 
Former OSCE mission head William Walker (who, by the way, had been granted an honorary Albanian citizenship) expressed the view that the people of Kosovo and Albania have serious reasons to consider a common future. 
In Kosovo, Walker supports the Self-Determination movement which advocates a plan for a Greater Albania and criticizes EULEX over failing to gain control over the Northern part of the province for years. 
Europeans may be prone to hesitation, but Albanians, time-tested warriors, are eager to fight. For example, police minister Bajram Rexhepi has been saying that his special forces have been ready to enter the northern part of Kosovo since the summer of 2010. The aforementioned special forces are the south-based Kosovo Liberation Army and the paramilitary formations including Wakhabbi terrorist groups. They are ready to do what it takes to subdue Kosovo's north. Thaci declared on December 21 that he did not take the charges against him seriously and would shortly head for the US to regain Washington's support.
Currently we are witnessing a new tide of the information war over Kosovo. The US is exercising undivided control over the historically Serbian province jointly with the dependent local administration, and Washington is not going to abandon its long-term partner Hashim Thaci. The EU is not a significant player in Kosovo, and EULEX was created simply as a part of the Ahtisaari plan meant to strengthen the Kosovo self-proclaimed independence. Since, according to the plan, Kosovo is supposed to be indivisible, gaining control over the northern part of the province has to be its indispensable element.
Will the storm triggered by Marty's report translate into a serious judicial investigation and lead to the punishing of Albanian war criminals - thus changing things not only in the Balkan region but also in Europe - or will the storm subside under Washington's pressure? The inability of EU authorities to stand up for justice promises the EU an ugly future painted in the bloody colors of the Albanian flag.

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http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/un-covered-organ-trafficking-report-says-serbia

Radio Netherlands - December 26, 2010

UN covered up organ trafficking report, says Serbia

Serbia asked the international war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia to investigate a former UN chief in Kosovo for covering up a report on organ trafficking, a report said on Sunday.
Serbia's minister for cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) wrote to chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz seeking an inquest into Soren Jessen Petersen, the head of the UN's mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) from 2004 to 2006, Blic newspaper reported.
"We are waiting for ICTY to open an inquest into UNMIK officials at the time for contempt of court," minister Rasim Ljajic told the newspaper.
Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty published a report earlier this month that linked Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci to organ trading and organised crime, which Thaci has denied.
UNMIK investigated possible organ trafficking in 2004, but it did not take it further citing lack of evidence.
"At the time, UNMIK said it did not have a report on organ trafficking and had no proof....But in 2008 our war crimes prosecutor obtained 16 pages of this report," Ljajic said.
Marty's report said Thaci headed a Kosovo Liberation Army faction which controlled secret detention centres in Albania, where the human organ trafficking was alleged to have taken place in the aftermath of the 1998-99 war between the guerrillas and Serbian forces.

© ANP/AFP 

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Die Schweiz muss Engagement in Kosovo überdenken
 
Daniel Vischer *
 
Der Bericht von Dick Marty an den Europarat löste vergangenen Donnerstag einen eigentlichen Schock aus. Darin steht, Hashim Thaci sei der «Boss» eines «mafiaähnlichen» kriminellen Netzwerkes, das Waffen, Drogen und menschliche Organe in Osteuropa schmuggelt. Konkret wird Thaci vorgeworfen, der Chef einer Bande gewesen zu sein, die in Gefangenenlagern der UCK Gefangenen Nieren entnahm und anschliessende Morde organisierte.
 
MINUTIÖSE ABKLÄRUNGEN. Der erste Vorfall datiert bereits vom Sommer 1999, an dem vor allem auch der Arzt Dr. Shaip Muja beteiligt war, der heute ein enger Mitarbeiter von Premierminister Thaci ist. Der Bericht wurde in Auftrag gegeben, nachdem die ehemalige Chefanklägerin für das Kriegsverbrechertribunal in Den Haag, Caria del Ponte, daran gehindert worden sein soll, die obersten Mitglieder der UCK, der Befreiungsarmee von Kosovo, deren Chef Thaci war, zu untersuchen. Was sie in ihren Memoiren vor zwei Jahren antönte, ist nun nach minutiösen Abklärungen erhärtet. Nun fragt sich einzig, wann gegenüber Thaci das Gleiche gilt wie gegen die dem Haager Tribunal bisher Überstellten.
Überhaupt hat der Bericht zwar wie eine Bombe eingeschlagen, ausser zur Schau gestellter Empörung aber bislang kaum Folgen ausgelöst. Einzig Aussenministerin Calmy-Rey verzichtete darauf, den Prix Diaspora entgegenzunehmen, mit dem sie für ihre Verdienste um die Unabhängigkeit von Kosovo ausgezeichnet wurde. Dazu hatte sie fraglos guten Grund, stellen sich doch verschiedene Fragen an sie als Aussenministerin, welche die Anerkennung von Kosovo vor zwei Jahren forcierte. Denn sie wie auch die Repräsentanten der anderen in Kosovo hauptsächlich engagierten Länder, aber vor allem auch die UN-Verwaltung Umnik werden nun zu erklären haben, ob sie tatsächlich nichts gewusst und warum sie nichts unternommen haben. Immerhin sagt Marty deutlich, die internationale Gemeinschaft ignoriere die Kriegsverbrechen, welche die UCK im Kosovokrieg gegen die Serben unternommen habe, und setze die Priorität stattdessen auf irgendeine Form der kurzfristigen Stabilität. Das war indes nur möglich, weil deren Politik einseitig von allem Anfang an gegen Serbien gerichtet war. Als richtig und moralisch integer galt eben, was Serbien schadet, das war auch in der Schweiz die vorwiegende Meinung im linken wie im rechten Lager und vor allem in praktisch allen Medien. Dabei war der von Joschka Fischer zum neuen humanitären Krieg erklärte Nato- Luftkrieg gegen Serbien genauso völkerrechtswidrig wie später der Irakkrieg und erfolgte ohne UNO Ermächtigung. Er beruhte auf der Kriegslüge von «Racak», einem zu Unrecht den Serben zugerechneten Massaker, wie man heute weiss. Erst das macht verständlich, warum die UCK so agieren konnte. Wenn nun deren Verbrechen endlich aufgedeckt werden, wird auch zwangsläufig die Geschichte der letzten 20 Jahre in Ex-Jugoslawien neu zu bewerten sein. Dies wird einige bestimmt nicht erfreuen.
Und auch die Schweiz wird ihr Engagement in Kosovo überdenken müssen, die Tage der Swisscoy jedenfalls sind gezählt.
 
* Daniel Vischer ist Nationalrat der Grünen Partei (ZH) und erklärt hier wöchentlich seine Sicht der Dinge.
 
Basler Zeitung, 22.12.2010