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Western Officials Knew About Kidnapping of Kosovo Serbs for Organ Harvesting

English translation of the Russian articles mentioned here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

"The so-called international community knew from the very start about the kidnapping of Kosovo Serbs and butchering them for their organs, as described in Carla Del Ponte's book, but by admitting those facts the West would undermine their plans for mutilating Serbia, shifting the power balance in the Balkans and weakening the Russian influence", Russia's Permanent Representative to NATO Dimitry Rogozin said, Tanjug reports.

"These are the common-knowledge issues, of which everyone involved in Kosovo-Metohija problem is aware and the very serious evidence that has entirely discredited Thaci", Rogozin said, adding that even though Thaci was one of the criminal KLA commanders, he still remained a desirable associate for the West.

"Everyone knew what the KLA really is — an extreme terrorist organization, financed by the narco-mafia", the Russian diplomat wrote for the high-circulation Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, in the last article in the series titled "Kosovo Rippers", dedicated to Carla Del Ponte's charges against the KLA which kidnapped Serbs in order to carve them up for their organs, as published in the former Hague chief prosecutor's book "The Hunt".

Despite everything, Western officials chose to remain silent, avoiding any admissions which could undermine their plans for mutilating Serbia, shifting power balance in the Balkans in Western favor and weakening the Russian influence, Rogozin said.

"My partners, those with whom I communicate in Brussels, call this a 'realistic politics'," the Russian diplomat concluded bitterly.

Russian daily also cites the opinion of the Head of the Central Military-Medical Commission, General Valery Kulikov, who said that "technically, it is not difficult to extract the needed organ", and that the "transportation is not a problem either, since everything that is needed is the proper container."

A Stolen State Run by the Butchers

Following Carla Del Ponte's charges in three subsequent articles, Komsomolskaya Pravda reveals that, as the first recognitions of the unilateral independence declared by Pristina separatists had trickled forth, on her way out of the Hague, "Del Ponte slammed the doors so hard, that the stucco crumbled on all the European Union ceilings", announcing "to the whole world that the newly-carved up 'republic of Kosovo' is ruled by the butchers, who have made their wealth on the internal organs extracted from the kidnapped Serbs."

Citing some of the excerpts from the book regarding Del Ponte's findings about the Albanian organ harvesting from the young and healthy Kosovo-Metohija Serbs, Russian reporters point to the Hague's release of the war criminal Ramush Haradinaj, another reviled KLA/UCK commander, "who was, alongside Thaci, one of the main figures in the illegal organ trade network", as the worst slap in the face for the Serbs.

Albanian Terrorists Hold KFOR and UNMIK Members in their Pockets

Following the trail Del Ponte pointed to in her book, Russian journalists also talked to Serbian General Bozidar Delic, former Commander for Kosovo-Metohija South, who stated that there isn't a single Serb left alive who witnessed and could testify about the macabre organ extraction "business" Albanians practice.

According to General Delic, the international organizations were repeatedly informed about the existence of the concentration camps KLA run for non-Albanians, but "the terrorists have their men both in the KFOR [NATO forces in Kosovo-Metohija province] and the UNMIK [UN civil administration in Serbian province, headed by all-Western officials]." General Delic explained that "as soon as a commission would be sent to inspect these locations, KLA concentration camp operators would be tipped off to move the prisoners to another location."

General Delic said that in 1999, under the tremendous Washington and Brussels pressure, the Serbs have released more than 2,000 Albanian terrorists from the prisons, but that not a single Serb kidnapped by the KLA, who could testify about the Albanian monstrosities, has been released from the Albanian concentration camps in return.

According to General Bozidar Delic, on the territory of southern Kosovo-Metohija province [near the border with Albania], there were some 10 concentration camps where the kidnapped Serbs targeted for organ extraction were held. Among them, the largest ones were in Budak, Jablanica, Ponosevac, Zrce, Nasecko and Prizren.

Russian reporters have visited those villages and towns, nowadays dotted with gaudy new constructions and hundreds of the monuments to the "UCK heroes", where the local Albanian children are being taught that "Haradinaj is the best, and Serbia and Russia are the enemy".

The adults in those villages simply told Russian reporters that "there never were any Serbs whatsoever" in their towns and villages, and "there was no war".

"Thank Your God You're Old..."

Komsomolskaya Pravda reporters talked to a Serbian woman from Prizren, who was kidnapped on September 14, 1999, while she was buying groceries from the street shop.

"In those days, the Albanians have entered the town and they were killing people in the streets, in plain sight. In the few days before the KFOR came (after the Yugoslav Army withdrew from the province), 50 people were killed, some 30 children disappeared without the trace...", she said.

She was taken from the Prizren street and shoved in a car, which an Albanian dressed in KLA uniform drove to the city bank. After the arrival, "some man" who spoke Serbian well showed up, checked her pupils, took her blood for the test and asked for her health.

"Afterwards, acquaintances told me that the younger boys and girls were taken toward the Albanian border immediately, after which all of their traces were lost," the Prizren woman told Russian reporters, adding she was saved by the fact she was older than she appeared.

"Thank your god you are old. Get out of here at once!", the man in KLA uniform, who was sitting in the bank manager's office, told her.

Russian daily also quoted an Istok resident, who said that almost 50 young men were kidnapped from her village and disappeared for good.

"No one has ever seen them again, either dead or alive", she said.

Carla Del Ponte Confirmed in 2004 All 1,300 Serbs Listed as Missing were Killed

President of the Association of Kidnapped and Missing Kosovo Serbs Simo Spasic, told Russian daily that the Albanians were not killing everyone on the spot, and that Del Ponte was given a list of 1,300 kidnapped Kosovo Serbs in 2001. He added that the kidnapped Serbs were also seen in the columns led by the KLA, among the refugees that were pouring out of Kosovo-Metohija province during the NATO bombardment.

"This was a way to take Serbs away, to Albania, under the guise of refugees," Spasic said.

"We know that some 1,000 people were taken to Albania for the purpose of extracting their organs. And Carla Del Ponte is talking about 300 Serbs only. They called me from the Hague tribunal in 2004 to tell me that all the 1,300 Serbs from our list have been killed," Spasic said.

"At that time, when Del Ponte told us that all the Serbs from our list have been killed, she already knew that their organs were extracted prior to being murdered. We are preparing a lawsuit against her, for covering up the crimes", said Spasic.

Albanian Mafia's Genocide Rewarded by the West

Komsomolskaya Pravda describes the hard life of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs, the life in reserves and ghettos, "every one of which deserves the title of 'a humanitarian catastrophe'," explaining that the Western officials refer to these appalling ghettos "very discreetly, by calling them 'the enclaves', or the 'places of compact living'", places where "they don't like the humanitarian organizations' representatives to go".

The money pours into southern Serbian province of Kosovo from the EU, from Saudi Arabia, American humanitarian organizations, and also from the Albanians engaged in criminal activities in western Europe, since "it is difficult to legalize the dirty money there", the Russian daily writes.

This money is used to build the flashy manors and swimming pools, countless supermarkets, gas pumps, bars, garish hotels... The cars stolen in Europe are being stripped of their serial numbers and 'legalized' in the province.

"One doesn't need to become an Interpol agent to figure out why the stores which will never have any customers are being built. These are the giant laundromats, where the illegal moneys get laundered", the Russian reporters write, adding that the EU cannot explain "why was it necessary to gift a republic to the Albanian mafia, which has committed a genocide over an entire nation."

Recommended: The Real Butchers of the Balkans: Del Ponte's Allegations May Only be a Tip of the Iceberg in Albanian Organ Trafficking Scandal, by Andy Wilcoxson (Slobodan-Milosevic.org); Bleeding Serbia, by Thomas Fleming (ChroniclesMagazine.org); Serbian Election: Socialists, the Unexpected Kingmakers, by Srdja Trifkovic (ChroniclesMagazine.org); Western Media is "Ignoring The Man Behind the Curtain" in Serbia's Elections, by M. Pejakovich (SerbBlog)