Two months ago Dick Marty’s prominent report on human organ trafficking started a wind of change for the newborn republic of Kosovo. In a detailed report named “Inhuman treatment of people and illicit trafficking in human organs in Kosovo”, Marty, a former Swiss prosecutor and member of the Swiss Liberal Party, alleged serious crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the war in 1999. As the report itself states, Dick Marty resorts to the same allegations written in the book of the former Prosecutor at International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTFY), Carla Del Ponte. She revealed her memoirs and experiences within the tribunal in her book “The hunt” in 2008, giving no concrete evidence but making serious accusations against KLA and its leaders, who actually hold important positions in Kosovar government. The case has been investigated by the Hague court, but it was later canceled due to lack of evidence. Del Ponte, referring to her personal investigations, reveals that once she visited the place where the organ removal took place, known as the “Yellow house”. Located in the mountainous region outside Burrel, a city in northern Albania, the house, according to “Madame Prosecutor”, was the impromptu clinic where KLA butchered 300 young imprisoned Serbians. Their organs were then transported in trucks and sold outside Albania. However, Del Ponte’s book is fictitious rather than factual because it was a miracle for Albania’s medical system to perform the first organ transplant in 2007 with the help of a specialized group of Italian doctors and equipments. While Del Ponte claims that the organ removal was previously done in 1999 in horrible conditions of Northern mountainous Albania, where even toda...
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...al reason of why he brought the discussion back to the table.
Combining all the arguments together, I further argue that Marty’s “investigative” report is favoring Serbia to achieve its goal to include Trepca Mines (Mitrovica) in its territory because it becomes easier for Serbia to win a battle with a country whose credibility is being questioned and the leaders of the government are accused of being part of human organ trafficking. Behind the superficial historical or emotional arguments that Serbians have toward Kosovo, there is the unspoken need to obtain economic power, for which the mines are an example. Some nations have more sophisticated ways to achieve it while some others choose war, and moreover, some other nations that did not find war as the ideal solution, choose to make reports based on fiction books, rather than providing a serious investigation.
flowing in as long as the opium was flowing out. By the early 1960s, the mountain areas of Southeast Asia produced most of the world's opium. In the early 1950’s in Southeast Asia, the CIA organized the Nationalist Chinese army to start a war against Communist China. This Chinese army became the opium distributors of the “Golden Triangle” (parts of Burma, Thailand and Laos). The “Golden Triangle” has the most abundance of opium and heroin in the world. In order to smuggle drugs, the CIA’s main airline