Mr Blair has some very bizarre friends, but a monster who traded in human body parts beats the lot
By STEPHEN GLOVER
Last updated at 8:54 AM on 16th December 2010
Five months ago, Tony Blair travelled to Kosovo at the invitation of the country’s prime minister, his friend Hashim Thaci, to receive the Golden Medal of Freedom. Mr Thaci has often lavished praise on Mr Blair for playing the leading role in ‘liberating’ Kosovo from Serbian rule in 1999.
Our former prime minister has some very bizarre friends. A new report from the respected Council of Europe accuses Mr Thaci of overseeing a ‘mafia-like’ organised crime ring in the late Nineties, which engaged in assassinations, beatings, human organ trafficking and other serious crimes.
The report, which took two years to compile, names Mr Thaci as having exerted ‘violent control’ over the heroin trade in Kosovo during the last decade. Figures from his inner circle are accused of taking scores of Serbs captives across the border after the war with Serbia ended in 1999, where a number of them were murdered for their kidneys, which were sold on the black market.
A bizarre friendship: Five months ago Tony Blair collected a Golden Medal of Freedom in Kosovo from Hashim Thaci - who a new report claims is a war criminal and traded human organs
n short, the prime minister of Kosovo is painted by the report as a major war criminal presiding over a corrupt and dysfunctional state, which happens to have been propped up by Western — including British — aid.
And yet this same Mr Thaci and his associates in the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army were put in place after the U.S. and Britain launched an onslaught in March 1999 against Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. More than 250,000 bombs were dropped, and an estimated 1,500 blameless civilians killed.
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