Arms trafficking accusations described as "racist slander"

Albanian PM Sali Berisha today in Tirana said <a href="http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=12&dd=27&nav_id=71762" class="text-link" target= "_blank">a report linking him to arms smuggling</a> in Kosovo was tantamount to "racist slander".

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Monday, 27.12.2010.

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Albanian PM Sali Berisha today in Tirana said a report linking him to arms smuggling in Kosovo was tantamount to "racist slander". Belgrade daily Politika on Monday ran an article based on information it received from the Serbian War Crimes Prosecution, linking Berisha, then an opposition politician and former Albanian president, to selling arms illegally to the KLA in Kosovo in 1998. Arms trafficking accusations described as "racist slander" "Claims by Politika, a mouthpiece of Serb ultranationalists and the advocate of the Serb genocide in Bosnia and Kosovo, are nothing but racist slander," Berisha told AFP. He further described the article as "anti-Albanian hysteria, led by (Council of Europe rapporteur) Dick Marty, a racist who, without any proof, is trying to do everything to soil the Albanians' war in Kosovo." "The way these accusations are presented, they can be only to my honor," Berisha went on to say. "The slurs that Belgrade's Politika and Dick Marty are propagating again prove their blind racism and their big disappointment with the liberation of one nation." Marty, a Swiss senator and CoE official, "launched tough attacks against the NATO intervention in Kosovo and its independence", noted Berisha. On December 14, Marty presented his report on inhumane treatment of prisoners and trade in human body parts in Kosovo and northern Albania in 1999 and 2000, and named Kosovo Albanian PM and former leader of the KLA Hashim Thaci as heading a mafia-like organization that was responsible for gun-running, and human organs and narcotics smuggling in eastern Europe. The victims were Serb and other civilians kidnapped in Kosovo, and the Serbian War Crimes Prosecution files cited by the Politika newspaper originate from the Serbian investigation into the Kosovo organ trafficking case.

Arms trafficking accusations described as "racist slander"

"Claims by Politika, a mouthpiece of Serb ultranationalists and the advocate of the Serb genocide in Bosnia and Kosovo, are nothing but racist slander," Berisha told AFP.

He further described the article as "anti-Albanian hysteria, led by (Council of Europe rapporteur) Dick Marty, a racist who, without any proof, is trying to do everything to soil the Albanians' war in Kosovo."

"The way these accusations are presented, they can be only to my honor," Berisha went on to say.

"The slurs that Belgrade's Politika and Dick Marty are propagating again prove their blind racism and their big disappointment with the liberation of one nation."

Marty, a Swiss senator and CoE official, "launched tough attacks against the NATO intervention in Kosovo and its independence", noted Berisha.

On December 14, Marty presented his report on inhumane treatment of prisoners and trade in human body parts in Kosovo and northern Albania in 1999 and 2000, and named Kosovo Albanian PM and former leader of the KLA Hashim Thaci as heading a mafia-like organization that was responsible for gun-running, and human organs and narcotics smuggling in eastern Europe.

The victims were Serb and other civilians kidnapped in Kosovo, and the Serbian War Crimes Prosecution files cited by the Politika newspaper originate from the Serbian investigation into the Kosovo organ trafficking case.

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