Kosovo's prime minister was 'a mafia boss who stole human organs from Serb prisoners and sold them for profit'By Daily Mail ReporterLast
By Daily Mail Reporter
11:56 AM on 16th December 2010
Accused: Hashim Thaci gives the thumb's-up before casting his vote in Pristina on Sunday
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.
Yesterday the allegations against Mr Thaci – pictured many times alongside Mr Blair – were laid bare in a devastating Council of Europe report.
Damningly, the report accuses Western governments of complicity, saying European leaders knew about, but chose to ignore, Thaci’s alleged brutality.
Thaci was nicknamed ‘The Snake’ when he was a guerrilla leader in the Kosovo Liberation Army, which fought the Serbs.
After Mr Blair helped to push the Serbs from Kosovo in 1999 under aerial bombardment, Thaci rose to power. Only last Sunday, he was re-elected as prime minister.
All smiles: Tony Blair meets Thaci in 1999 when he was the leader of the KLA and according to yesterday's report, when the organ-ring had just started. The pair posed for photos in a bar near where the European Union summit was being held in Cologne, Germany
Victims: Serbs fleeing Kosovo, are controlled by KFOR Italian soldiers, in June, 1999, at a checkpoint between Pec and the border with Montenegro
But 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.
The sinister portrait of Thaci painted by the report bears little resemblance to the man who greeted Mr Blair as an old friend when Britain’s former prime minister was honoured during a visit to Pristina in July.
Fluttering Union Flags heralded Mr Blair’s arrival in one of the few countries where he is proclaimed on posters as a ‘leader, friend and hero’. He was joined by his wife Cherie,
Yesterday Thaci described Mr Marty’s report as baseless and defamatory.
‘The government of Kosovo and Hashim Thaci will undertake all the necessary steps to dismiss the slanders of Dick Marty, including legal and political means,’ a statement said.
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Mr Blair has some very bizarre friends, but a monster who traded in human body parts beats the lot
8:54 AM on 16th December 2010
Tony Blair travelled to Kosovo at the invitation of the country’s prime minister, his friend Hashim Thaci, to receive the Golden Medal of Freedom. Mr Thaci has often lavished praise on Mr Blair for playing the leading role in ‘liberating’ Kosovo from Serbian rule in 1999.
Our former prime minister has some very bizarre friends. A new report from the respected Council of Europe accuses Mr Thaci of overseeing a ‘mafia-like’ organised crime ring in the late Nineties, which engaged in assassinations, beatings, human organ trafficking and other serious crimes.
The report, which took two years to compile, names Mr Thaci as having exerted ‘violent control’ over the heroin trade in Kosovo during the last decade. Figures from his inner circle are accused of taking scores of Serbs captives across the border after the war with Serbia ended in 1999, where a number of them were murdered for their kidneys, which were sold on the black market.
A bizarre friendship: Five months ago Tony Blair collected a Golden Medal of Freedom in Kosovo from Hashim Thaci - who a new report claims is a war criminal and traded human organs
In short, the prime minister of Kosovo is painted by the report as a major war criminal presiding over a corrupt and dysfunctional state, which happens to have been propped up by Western — including British — aid.
And yet this same Mr Thaci and his associates in the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army were put in place after the U.S. and Britain launched an onslaught in March 1999 against Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. More than 250,000 bombs were dropped, and an estimated 1,500 blameless civilians killed.
This was Mr Blair’s first big war, and it paved the way for the subsequent Western invasion of Iraq. The crucial difference is that while the Left in general and the Lib Dems in particular opposed the war against Saddam Hussein, both were among Mr Blair’s main cheerleaders as he persuaded President Bill Clinton to join forces with him in crushing Serbia.
Mr Blair’s justification for bombarding Belgrade was humanitarian. Unlike Iraq, where the bogus claim of weapons of mass destruction was trumped up, there was little pretence that British national self-interest was at stake. We were acting as the world’s policeman — which was the role we played again, along with the U.S., when we invaded Iraq in March 2003.
Kosovo had been part of Serbia since 1912. There is no doubt that the forces of President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia had brutally suppressed Kosovar Albanian nationalists in Kosovo, many of them led by the Kosovo Liberation Army, who wanted independence.
But both Mr Blair and the Clinton administration tended to ignore atrocities committed by Hashim Thaci’s Kosovo Liberation Army. Of the 2,000 people killed on both sides in the year before the U.S.-British bombing began, a significant minority were Serbs. A UN report later said that 90 Serb villages in Kosovo had been ethnically cleansed in the months leading up to March 1999.
President Milosevic finally agreed to withdraw his troops from Kosovo, and the bombing was stopped in August 1999. Tens of thousands of Serbs were then ethnically cleansed by the Kosovo Liberation Army, and driven over the border
into Serbia.
It would be a brave man who made a moral judgment between the ghastly bully Milosevic and the Kosovo Liberation Army, but that is exactly what Tony Blair did. He also ignored the inconvenient fact that Kosovo was part of Serbia in international law.
Indeed, there was evidence that Milosevic was prepared to accept a deal put to him by the British and Americans in February 1999, but the terms —including unlimited rights of access for an unlimited period by Nato troops throughout Serbia — were made unacceptably draconian to the Serbs because by that stage Blair and Clinton preferred war.
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