Organ Trafficking Part: 2 Speaking for the Silenced

Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network Show Name:  Speaking for the SilencedEpisode 7:  Organ Trafficking: Part 2Tune into this week’s episode of #SpeakingfortheSilenced!
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In this episode of Speaking for the Silenced, we will end a two-part segment discussing organ trafficking. Today, we will focus on a real-life incident of trafficking that occurred in Kosovo in 2008.
Segment 1: BackgroundVictim’s name is Yilmaz Altun, located in Pristina, KosovoFainted in middle of airport due to wound from organ removalIt was found that the organ donation was conducted a clinic in Pristina called MedicusMedicus was a chain of organ trafficking clinics that were designed solely for the purpose of making profit.Preyed on the poor and vulnerableCrime ring was operated by Lutfi Dervishi and his son, both Kosovo physicians.Actual organ removal was conducted by Yusuf Ercin Sonmez, a Turkish surgeonThe main operators of Medicus had been on the run for some time, evading capture since their operations were exposed in 2008. However, a few have been incarcerated
Segment 2:  Even more twisted originsThe Medicus Case has an even more complex twistCouncil of Europe found connections with Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)Terrorist group that sought to seprate Kosovo from YugoslaviaThe KLA reportedly began organ trafficking in 1999People and authorities have even began to suspect that Hashim Thaci, Prime minister of So how is the link between Medicus and the KLA established?Kidneys harvested from the Serbian captives were transported to Sonmez, the doctor who was involved in the transplants in MedicusPublic hoped that Medicus could be linked back to the KLA and ex Prime Minister Thaci. 
Music Credits:   Brooklyn and the Bridge by Nico StafAt the Restaurant by Monolog Rockstars
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