Inquiry finds "indications" of organ harvesting in Kosovo conflict

[jakeXT]

Source: Reuters

BRUSSELS, July 29 (Reuters) - An EU-led inquiry found "compelling indications" that Kosovo Albanian guerrillas extracted body organs from Serb captives during the 1998-99 war and sold them, but the practice was not widespread and there was not enough evidence for a trial, the lead investigator said on Tuesday.

After a three-year investigation, the EU-led task force said there was, however enough evidence to prosecute former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) for war crimes against the ethnic Serb and Roma populations of Kosovo during the conflict.

The investigation was prompted by a 2011 report by Council of Europe member Dick Marty that accused senior KLA commanders of involvement in the smuggling of Serb prisoners into northern Albania and the removal of their organs for sale.

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Other crimes perpetrated by senior KLA members, such as unlawful killings and forced disappearances, amounted to the ethnic cleansing of large portions of the Serb and Roma populations, and there was enough evidence to prosecute, Williamson said.

Read more: http://www.trust.org/item/20140729140614-jspc7/?source=fiTheWire

[Warpy]

1. This was written by someone who knows nothing about transplant medicine

Organs have a short window during which they're viable. Testing and matching to recipients takes time and recipients have to be located and prepped for surgery.

This is just another "woke up in a bathtub full of ice with both kidneys gone" kind of story.

Bullshit meter is pinned.

[candelista]

6. The organs might have been harvested "to order."

Car thieves do this. Someone wants a Lexus, and the car thief goes out and steals one.

[Warpy]

8. They'd have to run the victim's surface antigens and other immune work

Trust me, this isn't as easy as the article writer seems to think it is.

[Louisiana1976]

2. Very interesting post. But doubt it's true.

[Kelvin Mace]

3. Not interested in "compelling indications" what is your evidence?

Unless the "task force" has some, they should not be making highly incendiary accusations of this type.

[reorg]

4. but, but ... the KLA may have been

drug smuggling pimps, extortionists and murderers, but this?

Who do these EU task forces and inquiries think they are? The allegation is not new, of course. The place where it has happened is known. There is witness testimony. The investigation was official, it made already headlines several years ago. But, you know, we chose to ignore it, and act surprised now. "Compelling indiciations" ... whatever! The KLA was on ARE SIDE! War crimes? But this is even further in the past than the Iraq war! Let's bygones be bygones and move on.

[Igel]

5. It's a commonplace accusation.

The side you hate and need to make as evil as possible harvests organs.

But how do you store them? Preserve them? Get them typed and to where they're needed in the short time frame they're viable?

No. Mutilation is what we're talking about, with accusations of organ harvesting.

The novorossy are making the same accusation against the supposed ukrofashists with all the same problems. "They harvest kidneys." Right. A soldier knows how to do it. Then they put them in an ice chest and hold them for a few days where they get shipped off to Lvov and put in the first available donor. Who promptly dies because a piece of rotting flesh with all the wrong histocompability receptors was just sown into the person's body and no amount of antibiotics and immunosuppressants can help.

If it's happening, it's just mutilitation.

[reorg]

7. okay, no biggie, who cares about a little mutilation these days, right?

The allegations first appeared in the media in The Hunt: Me and the War Criminals, written in 2008 by Carla Del Ponte, a former chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). In her book, Del Ponte states that Kosovo Albanians harvested organs of kidnapped ethnic Serbs after the armed conflict ended in 1999. These accusations were backed by her own visit to the site; several witnesses both in and out of the ICTY, one of whom "personally made an organ delivery" to an Albanian airport for transport abroad; and "confirmed information directly gathered by the tribunal."[12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_theft_in_Kosovo

In case you are really that far behind current events, I suggest starting here:

https://www.google.de/search?q=kla+organ+harvesting