Dick Marty being sued for libel over Human Organ Harvesting Affair!

Dick Marty, the Swiss born Council of Europe investigator, born in the mainly Italian speaking Ticino canton, who has previously accused the EU of not wishing the full facts about Kosovo to be revealed, as reported by EU Observer, last February, as may be read from here, is now reported by Swissinfo, linked here, as being sued for libel for €200,000.

Marty's report, demanding urgent action to uncover the facts about the "yellow house", seems to have been left unnoticed since then, unsurprisingly in view of the final paragraphs of February's EU Observer report as follows:

"If I gave [Eulex] the names of the witnesses I interviewed [as called for by the EU], their lives would immediately be under threat."

Instead, a special investigation unit from abroad with a credible witness protection programme is needed, suggested the Swiss politician - something he feels Europe will oppose as it will expose their previous unwillingness to act.

"Europe is never going to accept that. Because it knows that my witnesses would really talk and reveal that a large part of the European politicians knew all along what was going on in Kosovo. Do you really think that Brussels wants to hear something like this," he said.

Marty's fellow Ticinese, former Chief Prosecutor for the UN war crimes tribunal, Carla del Ponte, met similar resistance when trying to bring to account those who deliberately turned a blind eye to Kosovan criminality, which remains a continuing stain on the odious organisation the EU has been allowed to become! The EU Parliament and its MEPs are particularly disgraced by their silence and inaction on this matter.

Read the Wikipedia entry on Carla del Ponti's book "The Hunt: Me and the war criminals" from here;  or on the links below for other postings on this blog on the EU and Kosovo.

Javier Solana should be sacked!

What a mess the EU has got itself into over Georgia. The Spanish socialist Javier Solana, who has always operated so far out of his depth in the imbroglio for what passes as EU external affairs, possibly haunted by his earlier experiences with Serbia as civilian head of NATO, has brought the world to the brink of its gravest security crisis for many years. This blog warned of the almost inevitable consequences, here, here, here, here , here and here. Among the questions asked and points stressed were these: "Is Solana co-ordinating the EU Foreign and Security Policy or what?" "Russia also opposes Kosovan independence, saying the new state's split from Serbia would force it to reconsider its own position on territorial disputes." My contribution to a discussion thread in today's Telegraph to an article by Janet Daley, linked here, is as follows: "We should best seek to influence only where we have the wherewithal. The EU has gravely erred over Kosovo and as I repeatedly blogged last February the consequences will be severe. The fault lies with the High Representative Javier Solana and the best starting point for the EU to at least begin to recoup matters would be to take the necessary urgent steps for his summary removal. David Miliband would be best employed in gaining support for such a move from his EU colleagues rather than rushing off to Georgia. The pretence that the Lisbon Treaty can be salvaged and the ongoing push for a diplomatic corps and identity (impossible under Nice) further complicates the chaos caused by the existing contradictions between the role of the EU Presidency, the EU Commission and the High Representive. We are part of the EU that has largely caused this mess, we should be working through the EU to clear that portion up before considering how we can thereafter proceed through Nato, the UN or other security bodies. One other thought, will there be any consequences for the Georgian President's TV posturing with the EU flag? If not, why not?" The video of Solana's personal involvement in the creation of the disputed independent territory, never unanimously agreed by EU member states can be seen from the link to yet another of my February 2008 postings here.

Euronews TV and Carla Del Ponte

I am quick to criticise the mainstream media when it ignores major issues, so feel bound to give praise when it does not. The EuroNews TV news network on its bulletins this afternoon is providing a basically balanced report on the new book from Carla Del Ponte, former war crimes prosecutor, (which has been the subject of several posts on this blog) regarding a trade in human organs from Serbs captured by Kosovans. Well done, the British independent TV media remains totally shamed!

British press finally report Del Ponte's Allegations

The Daily Telegraph, linked here, finally gives coverage to the allegations of human organ harvesting in Carla Del Ponte's book launched last weekend, which this blog has been reporting for some time, read here, here and here. The shocking allegations in the book quoted by the Telegraph further emphasise the disastrous foreign policy error by Javier Solana on behalf of the EU in recognising breakaway Kosovo, as I blogged here, here, here, here, here and here. Some of the report is quoted here:

According to the sources, senior figures in the Kosovo Liberation Army were aware of the scheme, in which hundreds of young Serbs were allegedly taken by truck from Kosovo to northern Albania where their organs were removed. Miss Del Ponte provides grim details of the alleged organ harvesting, and of how some prisoners were sewn up after having kidneys removed.

"The victims, deprived of a kidney, were then locked up again, inside the barracks, until the moment they were killed for other vital organs. In this way, the other prisoners were aware of the fate that awaited them, and according to the source, pleaded, terrified, to be killed immediately," Miss Del Ponte writes.

The claims in The Hunt: Me and War Criminals have renewed tensions between Serbia and its former province of Kosovo, which declared independence two months ago. In it, the Swiss ex-prosecutor reveals how her efforts to bring alleged war criminals to justice were stymied by lack of co-operation from all sides - Serb, Albanian and even Nato. But it is her report of the organ traffic that has caused most shock, even in a region long hardened to horror.

Vladan Batic, Serbia's former justice minister, said: "If her allegations are true, then this is the most monstrous crime since the times of Mengele, and it must be made a priority, not only of the domestic judiciary but also of the Hague Tribunal." The book reports a visit by Hague tribunal investigators to a house south of the Albanian town of Burrel where they found traces of blood across a wide area, as well as medical equipment. "The investigators found pieces of gauze, a used syringe and two plastic IV bags encrusted with mud and empty bottles of medicine, some of which was of a muscle relaxant often used in surgical operations," she writes. However, she concludes that the finds do not amount to sufficient proof for a war crimes tribunal. In Belgrade, the Serbian capital, an association of families of Serbs still listed as missing since the Kosovo war, said it would sue Miss Del Ponte, alleging that she had failed to act over the alleged organ-farming scandal. Serbia's war crimes office announced it had opened its own investigation. Remember in reading the above, this is not idle journalistic speculation, but the words of the UN's chief prosecutor of war crimes in the Balkans.

More on the role of the EU in driving the world to depravity and injustice when I blog on the growing food shortages due to the biofuels programme as pushed by the increasingly decadent EU.

EU Foreign Affairs Fiasco

Paul Taylor in the International Herald Tribune has an article on the inadequacies and "naivety" of EU foreign policy, linked here. Things could be about to get a whole lot worse, however, as my posting on the vetoing of the book launch by Carla Del Ponte, former Chief Prosecutor at the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, seems to indicate. As I posted earlier, her book apparently suggest the possibility that there was a trade of Serbian prisoners' body organs during the recent Balkan conflicts, my first post on this topic is linked here. The excerpts from the book which is in Italian are yet to be quoted on the web as far as I have been able to determine, but the Swiss vetoing of her attendance at the launch hints it contains something pretty explosive. Javier Solana's rush to Kosovo to hail the breakaway Kosovan government will be deeply shamed if it turns out there is any connection between individuals possibly involved in such a barbarous trade and those within the EU supported, independence declaring new Kosovan administration. Spanish socialist Solana still seems to be unaware of the damage he has already caused, see this just in, also from the IHT. Even the cowed masses of Europe standing idly by and mostly struck dumb, as their Parliaments vote themselves into redundancy with the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, would surely rouse themselves to anger at the new potentially tyrannical arrangements being apparently run by men who can turn a blind eye to such a gruesome possibilty as the harvesting and sale of human organs. The mainstream media seem silent. The action of the Swiss in silencing their Argentinian Ambassador surely seems worthy of some mainstream media consideration?

Carla del Ponte - Book launch vetoed

The following report is from SwissInfo linked here: Del Ponte book promotion vetoed Switzerland's ambassador to Argentina, Carla Del Ponte, has been told by the Swiss foreign ministry she cannot promote a new book. The former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague was asked to return to Buenos Aires before a scheduled presentation in Milan on Sunday. The foreign ministry said there were statements in "The Hunt: Me and War Criminals", written with New York Times reporter Chuck Sudetic, that were incompatible with Del Ponte's status as an official government representative

Carla del Ponte Book to inflate EU's Kosovo fiasco

A report from Fox News, linked here, indicates more problems ahead for the unthinking controllers of the EU's early disastrous forays into Foreign Affairs. The former UN prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, read here, is a substantial international figure having successfully prosecuted certain matters with mafia connections in her native Swiss Canton of Ticino before moving on to the high profile war crimes tribunal in The Hague. In her book to be published on 3rd April in Italy she touches upon accusations of the transportation of Serb prisoners to Albania and allegations of body organ sales resulting therefrom. Can anything be more likely to highlight the full extent of the EU's recent blunder in the Balkans? Elsewhere in Kosovo events follow the predicted course, as may be read, for example, from here. How can any nation, concerned for the welfare of its citizens, continue in the crazed doomed construct of the EU?

Rough ride for EU

Living in a dictatorship under construction it is hard to obtain media coverage of events that cast the tyranny in a less than favourable light. Thus it appears from a search of google news the best coverage comes from China, Canada and Switzerland on events in Kosovo and the Balkan tinderbox on the EU's doorstep into which the spark was recently thrown. The following end to the report from ISN Security Watch from Zurich, linked here, sums up the disaster that was, is and will be - EU involvement:

Rough ride for EU

Belgrade is fighting its battle on another front by refusing to acknowledge the European mission (EULEX), and pledging its cooperation only to UNMIK, which arrived in Kosovo in line with UN Security Council Resolution 1244.

Following the official example, Kosovo Serb civilians are also cooperating only with UNMIK and KFOR, and not with the EU mission (which has not been positioned in northern Kosovo) or the Pristina institutions.

The EU is putting tremendous pressure on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to mark the end of UNMIK's mission and invite EULEX to take over. However, the secretary-general is also facing an intense drive from Russia and other countries that have sided with Belgrade, which leaves UNMIK on the field.

Last week, the EU admitted that the takeover of authority would require more than the initially planned 120 days. Some members of the EU even think it would be wise for UNMIK to remain in the Serb enclaves.

"The situation is still volatile, particularly north of the river Ibar, in northern Kosovo," the chairman of the EU Council of Ministers Dimitrij Rupel told a press conference at the end of the meetings of the Council of Ministers in Brussels last week.

Rupel said UNMIK should take control of a border between Serbia and Kosovo. The Slovenian foreign minister admitted that the planned transition between UNMIK and EULEX would take longer and will require more effort.

Peter Feith, the international civilian representative in Kosovo, says that his mission is not coming to Kosovo to establish a NATO state, adding that it is politically impossible to admit a mistake and go back to the previous state of affairs. (blog editor's highlight)

In a 12 March interview for the Serbian Vecernje Novosti daily, Feith said his first impression after coming to Kosovo was "it could have been worse," adding that the worst was perhaps still to come.

The EU envoy went on to say that the EU mission would attempt to be as "invisible" as possible, adding that it was necessary for the Kosovo cabinet to assume power. In addition, he stressed that if Pristina tried to endanger the Serb community in Kosovo, he would not hesitate to use his powers, even if that meant dismissing and banning the violators of the rules.