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| Kosovo PM 'is Mafia boss linked to drugs and sale of human organs' |
| 2010-12-14 |
| THE Prime Minister of Kosovo has been named as "The Boss" of an extensive criminal network that dealt in heroin and human organs and carried out assassinations in a devastating report by the Council of Europe. Hashim Thaci, who won re-election in the fledgeling country on Sunday, was described as the "most dangerous" of the leading mafia figures who emerged from the former Kosovo Liberation Army a decade ago. The report says that the West was aware of Mr Thaci's crimes, yet backed his rise to power. Members of his criminal organisation were said to be behind the trade in human organs when specially selected, mostly Serbian prisoners, were killed for their kidneys in a deal with an Albanian clinic, the report states. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia nearly three years ago and the report looks set to cause a political crisis just as the country hoped to win international credibility by staging its first elections. "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 swiftly to the operating clinic," said the report, due to be debated by the Council of Europe tomorrow. "At least some of these captives became aware of the ultimate fate that awaited them. In the detention facilities where they were held in earshot of other trafficked persons, and in the course of being transported, some of these captives are said to have pleaded with their captors to be spared the fate of being 'chopped into pieces'." The report, by Dick Marty, a Swiss senator, was painstakingly compiled over two years through numerous interviews with witnesses too terrified to testify against senior political and KLA figures, as well as secret service reports from various countries. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 "Don't tell my mom I work in the oilfield, she thinks I'm trafficking in kidneys." |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-12-14 21:32 |