Media see "Kosovo, state of horror"

19 december 2010, kl 20:36Skrivet av andjeloAnmäl ! 

Media see "Kosovo, state of horror" 17 December 2010 | 13:25 | Source: Tanjug LONDON -- World media have given a lot of attention to adoption of CoE investigator Dick Marty’s report on human organ trade in Kosovo. In it, Kosovo Albanian Prime Minister Hashim Thaci was named as the leader of a criminal group that used to kidnap people, remove their organs and sell them. Commenting on the report which was adopted by the the CoE Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights yesterday, London's Times newspaper wrote that Kosovo was “a horror state”. The London-based daily dedicated one of its editorials entitled “The state of horror” to Kosovo, pointing out that the Kosovo PM was accused of heroin and human organ trafficking. The Daily Mail points out that both Blair and the Clinton administration tended to ignore atrocities committed by Hashim Thaci’s so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and describes Thaci as "a monster". "Of the 2,000 people killed on both sides in the year before the U.S.-British bombing began, a significant minority were Serbs," according to the newspaper. But it notes that a UN report later said that 90 Serb villages in Kosovo had been ethnically cleansed in the months leading up to March 1999. In Moscow, Russian daily Kommersant quoted Head of the Russian delegation to PACE Leonid Slutsky who said that “Marty always carefully checks the information and uncompromisingly defends his position, even when it comes to the most serious issues” and that Russia would take a stand on Marty’s report after his visit to Moscow next week. The Swiss investigator previously revealed illegal CIA-operated detention centers in Europe. Russian media also report that the authorities in Moscow said after the meeting of Russian and Serbian FMs Sergei Lavrov and Vuk Jeremić that Marty’s report needed to be taken seriously. Lavrov stressed that Russia was very upset about the information on possible involvement of Kosovo's top officials in the crimes against humanity and called upon the West not to be quiet about the PACE report which had revealed Thaci’s crimes and urged them to publish the report. Swiss daily Le Temps has also published a comment on Marty’s report, stressing that Switzerland, "as one of the first countries that recognized Kosovo’s independence, today bears heavy responsibility, undoubtedly more so than others due to its ties with the KLA".