Serb Serbia: Orthodox Patriarch blames world for alleged organs Trafficking

5/1/2011

The patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Irinej, on Wednesday blamed the international community for turning a blind eye to alleged Kosovo organs trafficking.

Belgrade, 5 Jan. (AKI) – The patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Irinej, on Wednesday blamed the international community for turning a blind eye to alleged Kosovo organs trafficking.

In a Christmas message delivered on Wednesday, Irinej said the trafficking of human organs, allegedly taken from Serb prisoners during the 1990s Kosovo rebellion, was going on before the eyes of the international community and its representatives in Kosovo.

“The horrible crime of trafficking organs of innocent Serb victims of hate and terror has been going on with indifferent and often complicity silence of representatives of the international community,” Irinej said.

“Unfortunately, the gravest example is the attitude of too many powerful people towards the right of Serbian people in Kosovo to life, freedom and the future,” the patriarch said.

An investigator from the Euopean Council human rights watchdog, Dick Marty, said in a report delivered last month that Kosovo prime minister Hashim Thaci and other high officials and members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) were involved in human organs trafficking which were sold at western clients.

Thaci and Kosovo officials have vehemently denied the accusations, while western powers expressed disbelief at the report and asked for a thorough investigation.

Foreign representatives in Kosovo “knew very well, what was going on”, Irinej said. “But truth and God’s justice always have the last word,” he concluded.

Kosovo majority Albanians declared independence from Serbia in February, 2008 with the help of western powers. Belgrade has continued to oppose Kosovo’s secession.

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