{"id":392,"date":"2010-11-16T11:02:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T10:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premesso.newcontrarian.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2010-11-16T11:02:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T10:02:47","slug":"organ-harvesting-in-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Organ Harvesting in Kosovo"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s such a common urban legend that it’s almost the stuff of jokes. \u00a0But organ theft is, apparently, alive and well, and right here in what’s loosely called “Europe.”<\/p>\n

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Carla del Ponte caused a minor stir a couple of years ago when she alleged that the Kosovar Liberartion Army had been secretly harvesting organs from captured Serb war prisoners. \u00a0Her allegation was ultimately found to be lacking in hard proof, but, as with many things in the Balkans, anything is — sadly — possible. \u00a0Now, according to the New York Times<\/a><\/em>, seven people have been charged in a similar illegal rings. \u00a0It wasn’t Serbs POWs that were operated on, but the\u00a0impoverished\u00a0lured from Istanbul, Moscow, Moldova and Kazakhstan. \u00a0A prominent surgeon and a senior health ministry official were involved. \u00a0More disturbing is the possibility that the ring goes much further than just Kosovo. \u00a0The article points to\u00a0substantial\u00a0complicity of Israel and South Africa, and indeed Israel may be the nexus of the case. \u00a0The disturbing implication is just how very far from an idea of “Europe” Kosovo still is, almost three years after its\u00a0declaration\u00a0of independence. \u00a0This blog would never argue for a return to Serb rule for Kosovo, but the fact that it’s institutions are somewhat lacking is pretty easy to see, and this is made worse by its “Kosovo <\/em>far\u00e0 da s\u00e8” <\/em>attitude. Although Kosovo is less ill-conceived as a statelet than nearby Bosnia, it is clearly barely ready to do much of anything alone, and EULEX’s mission will be long and hard there. \u00a0But unlike neighboring Macedonia, which seems to be healing, Kosovo itself seems in dire need of some essential transplants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s such a common urban legend that it’s almost the stuff of jokes. \u00a0But organ theft is, apparently, alive and well, and right here in what’s loosely called “Europe.” Carla del Ponte caused a minor stir a couple of years ago when she alleged that the Kosovar Liberartion Army had been secretly harvesting organs from … <\/p>\n

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