What did the Guardian write about Hashim Thaci when the Dick Marty report was published?

In that report that “The Guardian” had published in 2010, “Hashim Thaci has been identified as a network that started operating criminal resources after the Kosovo war and maintained its powerful influence on the country's governance since then”.

The two-year investigation report, quoting the FBI and other secret services, was provided by the “The Guardian”. The report reportedly cites Thaci as a man who in the last decade has exercised “violent control” on the heroin market.

Images from Thaci's immediate circle, the paper writes, are charged that after the war, “secretly sent prisoners across the border with Albania, where some Serbs are said to have been killed because of their kidneys, which were sold on the black market”.

Human rights investigator Dick Marty, who has investigated the case, had presented the report to European diplomats of all 47 member states at a meeting held in Paris this Thursday.

The report suggested that Thaci's “connections to organised crime date back to more than a decade, when those who were loyal to his Drenica group became dominant fractions within the KLA”, transmit “The Guardian”.

The report said that the group's superiority over other smaller groups in the guerrilla movement allowed since 1998, the Drenica Group to take over “of the most illegal criminal enterprises”, which included Kosovars south of the border in Albania.

While the Serb massacres were criticised, Marty said the international community chose to ignore allegations of war crimes committed by the KLA, “instead setting the price of achieving some kind of short-term stability”, broadcast the following “The Guardian”.

He said that “during the Kosovo war and almost a year after, Thaci's forces retaliated against Serbs, Roma and Albanians, who were accused of having collaborated with the enemy”.

The Guardian” wrote in 2010 that Thaci and four other members of the Drenica Group are mentioned in the report as committing “suicides, imprisonments, beatings and intimidation”.

Always, according to the “The Guardian”, this severe fraction of The KLA has had considerable power in the Government of Kosovo in the last decade, even with the support of Western powers, which wanted to ensure stability in the newborn state.

Citing Dick Marty's report, the newspaper “The Guardian” wrote that “the NLA commanders have played a crucial role in criminal activities in the last decade”.

“In confidential reports that have circulated for more than a decade devoted to fighting drug smuggling, at least five states have cited Hashim Thaci and other members of the Drenica Group as exercising violent control over the heroin and other narcotics market”, the “The Guardian” quoted the report compiled by Dick Marty.

Marty had added that “Thaci and other members of the Drenica Group are constantly mentioned in secret services reports such as “top players” in organised crime type structures.

I've examined these different volume reports with horror and moral outrage”, Marty said.

“The Guardian” wrote that the report stresses that “U n The CK has largely kept Serbian prisoners in a secret network in 6 detention facilities in northern Albania”.

Thaci's Drenica Group “bart top responsibility for inmates éad-hocé and for the fate of those held in prisons”, sections of the report from the “The Guardian” are cited.

The British newspaper, quoting the report, explains that it is about a “crust” prisoners, said to have been transferred to an improvised prison in northern Tirana, when they were killed to collect their kidneys”.

In the report, according to the newspaper “The Guardian”, it is found that “when transplant surgeons have confirmed that they are in position and willing to act, prisoners have been brought to the safe house separately to be killed immediately by an armed member The KLA, while their troops were quickly transported to clinic”.

Marty was critical of Western powers, which have offered an overseer role in making Kosovo state, that they have failed to hold top figures accountable, including Thaci himself.

He had criticised for the “reluctant political will on the part of the international community, effectively following former KLA Iriders”.

Dick Marty, according to the newspaper “The Guardian”, had said that “sets of co-operation between criminal classes and responsible for the highest political and institutional offices are numerous and very serious to ignore”.

“It is the fundamental right of Kosovo citizens to know the truth, the whole truth, and it is also the necessary condition for reconciliation between communities and the country's promotional future”, Marty was quoted as saying.

If the report is formally approved by the committee this week, the findings will go to the Parliamentary Assembly next year, the British newspaper “The Guardian” concludes.