Hashim Thaci Implicated in Organ Harvesting from Serb Prisoners

Back in April 2009 I first wrote about allegations of KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) atrocities committed against Serbian prisoners and civilians during the Kosovo War.

It is now being widely reported that the trail leads right to the very top of the Kosovan government:

He was all smiles a few months ago as he honoured Tony Blair for helping to liberate his country.

But yesterday Kosovo’s prime minister was sensationally named as the boss of a brutal mafia network that allegedly specialised in butchering enemies for their kidneys.

He strongly denies the allegations.

In a bombshell report Hashim Thaci was described as ‘the most dangerous’ of organised crime leaders who engaged in assassinations, beatings, drug smuggling and a weapons racket.

Most macabre are testimonies alleging how his mafia network harvested human organs from kidnapped prisoners, who pleaded not to be ‘chopped into pieces’ before they were shot dead by henchmen.

Their kidneys and other organs were removed and sold in a deal with an Albanian clinic.

The claims about the country’s premier come as a slap in the face to those who supported Britain’s efforts to free Kosovo and help its rebel leaders to power.

Actually, it was well known even at the time that the KLA was a brutal criminal racket and terrorist group.

As its leader, it is only logical that Thaci would be involved.

Of course, this information was hushed up at the time because it didn't fit the "Serbs are evil" and "Albanians who have colonised and wrested control of Kosovo are angels" narrative.

Remind me again - what exactly did we "free" Kosovo from?

It was a province of Serbia. It's now run by gangsters and wishes to be absorbed into the far more violent, corrupt and backward state of Albania.

If the US government decided to bomb London until we gave up control of Yorkshire to a rebel government backed by Pakistan, would the Daily Mail describe that as "liberating" or "freeing" Yorkshire?

The article continues:

Dick Marty, the Swiss senator who wrote the report, said he felt ‘moral outrage’ as he allegedly discovered how Thaci’s ‘Drenica Group’, a faction of the KLA, was implicated in harvesting human organs.

He claimed captives were held in a secret network of six detention facilities in lawless northern Albania, near its border with Kosovo. In one case, a ‘handful’ of men were held in a farmhouse in the town of Fushe-Kruje.

The report states: ‘As and when the transplant surgeons were confirmed to be in position and ready to operate, the captives were brought out of the “safe house” individually, summarily executed by a KLA gunman, and their corpses transported to the operating clinic.’

‘At least some of these captives became aware of the fate that awaited them. Some are said to have pleaded with their captors to be spared the fate of being “chopped into pieces”.’

Some victims were allowed to live, minus their robbed organs.

Well, infidels are expendable, aren't they? If only all the fearless, truth-seeking Western journalists who descended on the area at the time, desperate for the tiniest hint of dirt on the Serbs, had known.

The good news is that "lawless" Albania has just been given £320 million by the EU, out of an "accession fund" to which Britain contributed about £1.1 billion. This, despite the fact that no negotiations to admit Albania are currently being held, and it is widely acknowledged the money will simply be abused.

The EU, in its eternal and benevolent wisdom, has also relaxed visa rules for Albanians and Kosovans.

Who says crime doesn't pay?

Media Bias About Kosovo

On Thursday I posted the following documentary on YouTube:




In it, British reporter Sam Kylie returns to Kosovo (it was filmed and broadcast in 2008, just months before independence was announced) to see what the situation is 9 years after the NATO campaign and the withdrawal of Serb security forces.

I think Kylie is biased in his coverage, however; not necessarily against the Serbs per se, but more against those who reject the idea of Kosovan independence and leaving their Serbian identity to 'integrate' into Kosovo.

I find this troubling. There are several points when Kylie all but ridicules the Serbs who live in their own little enclaves, generally funded by Belgrade. They have their own currency, their own post offices, their own education and legal systems.

What he fails to note, however, is that the Kosovan Albanians don't all want 'independence' in the sense he means it - they want to be part of Albania.

Many of their organisations and political parties are funded by Albania. They use Albanian textbooks, don't learn Serbian in their schools, and live largely separate lives.

Why is it that if 'integration' is so wonderful, the ethnic Albanians never integrated into Serb culture and society, seeing as they were living in Serbia?

This smacks of a huge double standard. The Serbs have had this territory wrenched from them by NATO for resisting a war of separation (albeit brutally); they must now integrate into the culture of the people who took their territory, the people who smash their cultural and religious symbols, the people who destroy their houses and steal their farm equipment; the people who have in many cases brutally driven them from their homes and villages, attacked them, raped them, murdered and mutilated them.

If integration and forgetting cultural, religious, linguistic and ethnic division is as easy as Kylie seems to suggest, why was the onus never on the Albanians to change any of their ways? Why are they also fighting low-level separation campaigns in the district of any country where they comprise an ethnic majority?

In a sense I understand what he is saying; whatever anyone's feelings on the matter, the reality is that Kosovo has a large Albanian majority and is now independent of Serbian control; however, I feel the documentary does not appropriately deal with just what sort of state he is asking the Serbs to abandon their history and identity for, and just where a lot of the backing, funding and resistance to the majority-Serb areas remaining Serbian comes from.

He does deal with the ongoing campaign of violence against the Serb minority, and the attempts of Albanian nationalists to purge the region of any sign of its Serbian past and its importance to Serbian culture.

However, he seems another multiculturalist dreamer; the US and Britain don't want the three majority-Serb provinces of Kosovo which border central Serbia to split from the rest and become part of sovereign Serbia because they want to create a magical, mythical rainbow nation.

We all know how that turned out last time.

The Kosovo Conflict

Yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of the beginning of NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia.

This incident, ostensibly to stop persecution of Kosovar Albanians by Serbs, was the first in which NATO forces made a pre-emptive attack on a sovereign nation, and it set many uncomfortable precedents in other ways too.

The conflict has its origins in the ancient ethno-religious rivalries between Muslim Albanians and Orthodox Christian Serbs; it seems that whilst the Balkans were part of the Ottoman Empire, many Albanians converted for the purposes of convenience (not being Dhimmis, having full rights and access to higher education and good jobs), whilst the Serbs are noted for their stubborn resistance to all foreign attempts to control them.

Kosovo (Косово or Косово и Метохија) has been seen as the religious and cultural centre of the Serbian nation since the 12th century. Serbs have been living in the region for at least 1,000 years.

However, the Ottoman Empire settled many Muslim Albanians in the Kosovo region, and by the beginning of the 20th Century, a demographic shift was underway in favour of the Albanians.

The idea of a 'Greater Albania' encompassing the regions nations neighbouring Albania with a majority of ethnic Albanians is an ancient one.

Before the NATO intervention, the last person to come close to helping the Albanians achieve this ancient dream was Adolf Hitler; it was promised to them for helping to fight the Serbs. Some anecdotal evidence suggests he is well regarded in Albania and Kosovo as a friend and hero of the Albanian nation, even to this day, despite the fact he only continued Mussolini's policy towards them.

As the Albanian population grew and the Serbian share of the population decreased, the Albanians began to push for more and more autonomy, for example equal status for the Albanian language and the 'Albanianisation' of the education system. However, under Tito, both Albanian and Serbian nationalist groups were brutally suppressed.

A paramilitary force, borne of drug-trafficking money and gang influence, was set up to 'protect' Albanian interests. This was the Kosovo Liberation Army or KLA (Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës or UÇK), formed around 1981.

It was designated a terrorist organisation by many countries, including Britain and America.

By 1998, the KLA was actively fighting Serb and Yugoslav security forces for control of large portions of Kosovo. Both sides carried out atrocities against each other's symbols and civilians. This came about because of a Serb attempt to directly control the province and crush aspiring Albanian nationalist sentiment - but it should be remembered that it was still Serbian sovereign territory, an integral part of the nation.

However, Bill Clinton decided that it really was quite black and white. Clearly, those poor oppressed Albanians, who only wanted to shave off a huge chunk of a sovereign country and give it to another country they ethnically identified with, were being 'ethnically cleansed' and needed NATO air support.

The widely-condemned NATO bombing of Yugoslavia began on 24th March 1999, and continued until 10th June 1999.

Human Rights Watch have only managed to verify 500 Kosovan Albanian civilian deaths at the hands of Serb security forces over 2 years; NATO bombing killed 100 Kosovar Albanian civilians in 3 months, as well as an estimated 500 Serb civilians.

What is often overlooked is that nearly 450 Serb civilians were killed in Kosovo by the KLA. They also started to raid into central Serbia, carrying out bomb attacks and shooting policemen.

None of this is a defence of Slobodan Milosevic or the actions of Serbia; I simply feel that this conflict is seen by too many as completely one-sided, like so many of our recent conflicts some weird rehash of WWII.

It wasn't quite that simple, despite the attempts of Bill Clinton and others to pretend that Milosevic wanted to build a 'racially pure' Serb state, when in fact all he wanted to do was defend the interests of ethnic Serbs outside Serbia and in Kosovo. Certainly, his ambitions were not really any different to those of the KLA.

Much of the civilian exodus which occurred from Kosovo began after the NATO bombing; fighting between Serb forces and the KLA intensified, many fled the bombing itself, and it seems the Serbs did try to drive many out in a last ditch attempt to keep the region part of Serbia.

However, where has this 'noble' conflict led us? We have a UN run state in the Balkans, where even the 'liberated' Kosovar Albanians are increasingly agitating for foreign troop withdrawal.
We have a terrorist organisation running criminal networks all over Europe, claiming it is a legitimate government.

We see increasing 'Islamisation' in Kosovo, as we did before it in Bosnia. The Kosovan population were only nominally Muslim before KFOR rolled in - now in some sections of society Saudi Arabian funding and influence is surreptitiously underway.

There are outrageous attacks on and atrocities against Serbian civilians and their cultural and religious symbols, and they have been growing since the Serbian forces withdrew ten years ago. These and other incidents are an attempt to drive out or marginalise any Serbs who remain. However, this is largely ignored by the Western media - can it be that 'ethnic cleansing' isn't bad in itself and is only an excuse for acting as you wish?

There are also wider geo-political issues; Serbia is still needlessly a pariah state, when it could have been a valuable ally in the War on Terrorism. Relations with Russia are still needlessly sour, and the 'Kosovo precedent' may have been directly responsible for the war in Georgia, with Russia taking a 'two can play at that game' stance. There is also a moral issue - Serbia did nothing in Kosovo that Russia didn't do in Chechnya ten times over - yet apart from a few anti-war and human rights types, most people saw that as a legitimate operation. It occurs to me that on paper, Chechnya has more right to be an independent state than an Albanian Kosovo.

The wider issues are frightening to contemplate; there is no telling the potential damage the 'Kosovo precedent' could do to many currently stable nation states, and I personally feel the genie should have been left in the bottle.

The Kosovo Conflict shows just how dangerous ill informed decisions and 'bombing for peace' can actually be.

It also demonstrates the danger posed by large, unassimilated populations of hostile immigrants and their descendants; if Kosovo is Albania, then why can't the US south west be Mexico? Is it just a matter of time and numbers?

Only time will tell how much damage this idiotic war has actually done.