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-Kosovo EU police to examine report on PM Thaci
By Fatos Bytyci and Adam Tanner
PRISTINA/BELGRADE Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:59pm GMT
PRISTINA/BELGRADE (Reuters) - Kosovo's EU justice mission said Wednesday it would examine allegations in a European draft report that Prime Minister Hashim Thaci is a mafia boss, as opposition politicians rallied behind him....more...http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6BE2IH20101215
-Kosovo PM Thaci denies crime report
PRISTINA Thu Dec 16, 2010 5:01pm GMT
PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci denied Thursday criminal allegations outlined in a European report and said he would use all political and legal means to bring the truth to light....more...
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6BF3UC20101216
-Kosovo PM denies "mafia-style" crime allegations
By Fatos Bytyci
PRISTINA Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:57pm GMT
PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci rejected a European report accusing him of heading a mafia-style organisation and said Thursday he would use all political and legal means to bring the truth to light....more...http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6BF4I520101216
-Swiss investigator calls for prompt Kosovo probe
Written by: SwissInfo
SwissInfo December 16, 2010
A report accusing Kosovo’s leader of heading a mafia-style organisation should spur a formal investigation and set in motion a “dynamic of truth”, its author said.
Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty, a Swiss senator who led the two-year effort to uncover alleged crimes committed by Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, also accused officials of turning a blind eye to the atrocities....more...
Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty, a Swiss senator who led the two-year effort to uncover alleged crimes committed by Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, also accused officials of turning a blind eye to the atrocities....more...
-Selon la justice serbe, le trafic d'organes a concerné 500 victimes dans les années 90
LEMONDE.FR avec AFP 16.12.10 19h32
Le procureur serbe pour les crimes de guerre, qui mène depuis trois ans sa propre enquête sur un trafic d'organes sur des prisonniers serbes des maquisards kosovars albanais dans les années 90, a assuré jeudi 16 décembre que cette affaire concernait 500 victimes, parmi lesquelles 400 Serbes et 100 autres non-Albanais du Kosovo....more...
-Kosovo : les faiblesses du rapport sur les trafics d'organes(video)
LEMONDE.FR 17.12.10 12h05 • Mis à jour le 17.12.10 12h34
Les accusations de trafic d'organes dirigées contre le premier ministre kosovar sortant, Hashim Thaci, et publiées dans un rapport du Conseil de l'Europe, mercredi 15 décembre, ne sont pas nouvelles. Des accusations similaires avaient été portées en 2008 par l'ancienne procureure du Tribunal pénal pour l'ex-Yougoslavie (TPIY), Carla del Ponte....more...
-Kosovo PM to sue EU rapporteur over crimes report
By Fatos Bytyci
PRISTINA Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:58pm GMT
PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said on Monday he would sue for slander a Council of Europe rapporteur who accused him of being an organised crime boss dealing in drugs and human organs....more...
PRISTINA Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:58pm GMT
PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said on Monday he would sue for slander a Council of Europe rapporteur who accused him of being an organised crime boss dealing in drugs and human organs....more...
-Kosovar PM Says To Sue EU Investigator For Slander
December 20, 2010
Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has vowed to sue an EU investigator over a report accusing him of running a crime ring involved in trafficking organs. Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty released the EU-commissioned report last week, charging Thaci with running what it calls a "mafia-like" criminal network trafficking in heroin, weapons, and organs from Serbian victims at the end of the 1998-99 Kosovo war. ...more...
Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has vowed to sue an EU investigator over a report accusing him of running a crime ring involved in trafficking organs. Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty released the EU-commissioned report last week, charging Thaci with running what it calls a "mafia-like" criminal network trafficking in heroin, weapons, and organs from Serbian victims at the end of the 1998-99 Kosovo war. ...more...
-La Serbie souhaite une enquête sur les trafics d'organes au Kosovo
LEMONDE.FR avec AFP 20.12.10 12h20
La Serbie s'engage dans une offensive diplomatique de grande envergure afin de réclamer une enquête après le rapport du Conseil de l'Europe évoquant un trafic d'organes sur des prisonniers serbes organisé par des maquisards indépendantistes kosovars à la fin des années 1990....more...
-Trafic d'organes : le Kosovo pour l'ouverture d'une enquête
LEMONDE.FR avec AFP 21.12.10 15h16 • Mis à jour le 21.12.10 15h22
Le président par intérim du Kosovo, Jakup Krasniqi, a plaidé, mardi 21 décembre, pour l'ouverture d'urgence d'une enquête, après la publication du rapport du Conseil de l'Europe évoquant un trafic d'organes présumé, organisé par des indépendantistes albanais sur des prisonniers serbes à la fin des années 1990. "Plus l'enquête sera rapide et ses résultats diffusés, plus cela permettra d'amoindrir les dommages publics qui nous (au Kosovo) ont été infligés" jusqu'à présent, ajoute M. Krasniqi dans son communiqué....more...
-Albania Prosecutor Reacts to Organ Harvesting Report
Written by: Balkan Insight
By Besar Likmeta
Balkan Insight December 21, 2010
“The Albania prosecutors’ office has no evidence to suggest the existence of an organ transplant center in the [town] of Fushe Kruja, or anywhere else in Albania,” the Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement issued on Monday..
“The Albania prosecutors’ office has no evidence to suggest the existence of an organ transplant center in the [town] of Fushe Kruja, or anywhere else in Albania,” the Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement issued on Monday..
“Nor it has ever received information or a request for criminal investigation by an international investigative body,” it adds...more...
-Kosovo PM calls for inquiry over organ trafficking claims
Hashim Thaçi says authorities will be 'very co-operative' in dealing with allegations made in Council of Europe report
Associated Press in Pristina
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 21 December 2010 20.03 GMT
Kosovo's prime minister, Hashim Thaçi, says he wants an independent investigation to "dispel the mist" over allegations he led a gang that murdered detainees to sell their kidneys.
Thaçi said he had "nothing to hide" and pledged Kosovo authorities would be "very co-operative" in dealing with allegations in a report by Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty that the Kosovo Liberation Army, led by Thaçi, killed Serb and Albanian civilian captives to sell their organs in 1999.
"It is a mist that I must and will work to dispel," Thaçi said.
He said the allegations were aimed at undermining Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia....more...
"It is a mist that I must and will work to dispel," Thaçi said.
He said the allegations were aimed at undermining Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia....more...
-Kosovo's PM fires back over stolen organs report
From Vlora Rustemi, For CNN
December 21, 2010 -- Updated 0226 GMT (1026 HKT)
Pristina, Kosovo (CNN) -- Kosovo's prime minster lashed out at critics Monday over a recent report alleging that officials may have stolen organs from prisoners of war and political rivals, calling it "pure fabrication."
European authorities charged in a report released last week that executives who control the country may have stolen organs when the Kosovo Liberation Army was fighting Serbian forces in the late 1990s....more...
European authorities charged in a report released last week that executives who control the country may have stolen organs when the Kosovo Liberation Army was fighting Serbian forces in the late 1990s....more...
Thaci in the soup
Dec 21st 2010, 0:01 by T.J.
THE storm raised by Dick Marty's Council of Europe report [PDF] is not yet fading. Among other things, the report accuses Hashim Thaci, Kosovo's prime minister, of involvement in organ trafficking in the wake of the 1999 war. Mr Thaci says the allegations are slanderous and that he will sue Mr Marty. Unsurprisingly, the response to the report has been joyous in the Serbian media and defensive in Kosovo's. The best analysis I have seen comes from a senior diplomat in Kosovo, who has agreed to share his views anonymously with readers of Eastern Approaches. The report, notes our source, is:...more...
THE storm raised by Dick Marty's Council of Europe report [PDF] is not yet fading. Among other things, the report accuses Hashim Thaci, Kosovo's prime minister, of involvement in organ trafficking in the wake of the 1999 war. Mr Thaci says the allegations are slanderous and that he will sue Mr Marty. Unsurprisingly, the response to the report has been joyous in the Serbian media and defensive in Kosovo's. The best analysis I have seen comes from a senior diplomat in Kosovo, who has agreed to share his views anonymously with readers of Eastern Approaches. The report, notes our source, is:...more...
-Serbia investigates alleged organ harvesting
SETimes December 21, 2010
Written by: SETimes
By Igor Jovanovic
Serbian war crimes prosecutors are investigating three separate cases based on the Council of Europe report by rapporteur Dick Marty, a spokesman told SETimes.
“I can only say that we have gone further in that investigation than Marty, but I cannot disclose any details,” Bruno Vekaric said. “We gathered a lot of evidence, including witness testimonies, and discovered the identities of certain victims.”...more...
“I can only say that we have gone further in that investigation than Marty, but I cannot disclose any details,” Bruno Vekaric said. “We gathered a lot of evidence, including witness testimonies, and discovered the identities of certain victims.”...more...
-Thaci Allegations Don’t Change The Broader Perspective On Kosovo
December 21, 2010
By Gordana Knezevic
If it bleeds, it leads, the old journalism rule-of-thumb runs. And it is hard to find another end-of-the-year story that bleeds quite like the accusation that the prime minister of Kosovo was involved in the trafficking of human organs and other criminal activities during the 1999 conflict, which ended following NATO intervention to drive Serbian forces out of Kosovo....more...
By Gordana Knezevic
If it bleeds, it leads, the old journalism rule-of-thumb runs. And it is hard to find another end-of-the-year story that bleeds quite like the accusation that the prime minister of Kosovo was involved in the trafficking of human organs and other criminal activities during the 1999 conflict, which ended following NATO intervention to drive Serbian forces out of Kosovo....more...
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