I'd be interested to know to what extent the British authorities were aware of this and why it has taken so long to be investigated.There have been calls for an investigation into the Burrel "house clinic" since April, when the ex-chief prosecutor for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, Carla Del Ponte, said there had been "credible" reports about the fate of Serbian soldiers held there.
Del Ponte said her investigation was shelved because of lack of evidence and resistance from senior UN figures.
However, the Guardian has obtained the report of a UN forensic examination of the Katuci house, commissioned by Del Ponte. The report, by a UN expert, José Pablo Baraybar, was previously believed to be missing. Though not conclusive, it mapped traces of blood that could have been human in two downstairs rooms. Discarded in a nearby stream, the report said, was material "consistent with surgical overalls", syringes, a handgun holster, pill containers and bottles, and four empty drug containers, including one that contained a muscle relaxant.
Asked about the traces of blood found by the UN forensic team, Katuci said it originated from when his wife gave birth. The discarded medical equipment, he added, was used by his family to self-administer drugs because the nearest hospital is several hours' walk away.
But Baraybar, the former director of the UN's missing persons and forensics unit in Kosovo, said his team found "highly indicative evidence" that pointed to organ removal at the Burrel house, and prosecutors received testimony from eight witnesses.
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Guardian reports on "grim findings" in Kosovo
NEIL CRAIG will no doubt be pleased that this issue has finally received some coverage from the media:
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The new thing here is not anything in the Guardian report but that it is being reported. I can also confirm that our entire newspaper corps have refused to publish leters mentioning this.
Del Ponte put this in her autobiography in March this year & it refers to an "investigation" made 7 years before that based on allegations the ICTY had received from "responsible journalists" (ie western ones) who have thus known & censored this for all that time.
Evidence has since emerged that the Albanian underworld had been dissecting the retarded, "worn out" prositutes & babies for years so we must assume that the intelligence services & their friends like Ashdown, so active in Albania in recruiting these people into a "Liberation Army" were perfectly well aware of & supportive of this all the time.
see http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/ips040108.htm
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