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Title: Kosovo. KP. May 2008 View count: 660 Rating: 0 (0 ratings) Description: KP journalists trace the scandalous book by Carla Del Ponte, prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Aleksander KOTS, Dmitry STEPSHIN. Photos by the authors — 12.05.2008 - 14.05.2008 Articles: Part1: http://www.kp.ru/daily/24096.5/324917/print/ Part2: http://www.kp.ru/daily/24097/325320/print/ Part3: http://www.kp.ru/daily/24097/325325/print/ After Kosovo declared independence, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Carla Del Ponte raucously quit her position at The Hague. She slammed the door so loudly behind her that the ceiling plaster cracked at parliaments across the European Union. After her exile to Argentina as Switzerland's ambassador, Ponte said the new Kosovo was run by butchers who made a fortune trafficking organs extracted from kidnapped Serbs. In her book titled, "The Hunt: Me and the War Criminals," Ponte describes how a black organ market formed during the Kosovo War. Meanwhile, she says, the European Union played dumb paying no attention to the crimes. KP journalists went to Kosovo to learn more about the crimes. Iron Carla's revelation Hardly a day goes by without fragments of Ponte's book hitting Belgrade newspapers. Here is a commonly quoted section that details the horrors of Kosovo organ trafficking: "According to the journalists' sources, who were only identified as Kosovo Albanians, some of the younger and fitter prisoners were visited by doctors and were never hit. They were transferred to other detention camps in Burrel and the neighboring area, one of which was a barracks behind a yellow house 20 km behind the town. "One room inside this yellow house, the journalists said, was kitted out as a makeshift operating theater, and it was here that surgeons transplanted the organs of prisoners. These organs, according to the sources, were then sent to Rinas airport, Tirana, to be sent to surgical clinics abroad to be transplanted to paying patients. "One of the informers had personally carried out a shipment to the airport. 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 in the barracks were aware of the fate that awaited them, and according to the source, pleaded, terrified to be killed immediately. "Among the prisoners who were taken to these barracks were women from Kosovo, Albania, Russia and other Slavic countries. Two of the sources said that they helped to bury the corpses of the dead around the yellow house and in a neighboring cemetery. According to the sources, the organ smuggling was carried out with the knowledge and active involvement of middle and high ranking involvement from the KLA (ed. Kosovo Liberation Army). Photo Gallery Kosovo's Enclaves: http://www.kp.ru/photo/kosovo1/ Kosovo monastery: http://www.kp.ru/photo/kosovomonastyry/ Albanian Kosovo: http://www.kp.ru/photo/kosovo3/ Tags: Kosovo Serbs Serbia Metohija Enclaves Refugee Center Camp Camp Kidnapped Missing Serbian Minority Documentary Film Travel Russia Human Rights UNMIK KFOR United Nations 1244 Tags: documentary, enclaves, film, human, kfor, kosovo, metohija, minority, nations, rights, russia, serbia, serbian, serbs, united, unmik, Author: CaillouVert |
