The popular Bosnian investigative show "60 Minutes" aired an extraordinary episode tonight moving from its usual slot on Mondays, in order to air the breaking images of the war criminal General Ratko Mladic who has been on the run from the Indictment for Genocide, issued by the War Trimes Cribunal in the Hague since 1995.
These highly disturbing videos show the banality of evil: the man accused of murdering in cold blood 8000 young boys and men in Srebrenica, shelling Sarajevo on a daily basis and murdering over 10,000 civilians during the siege, and orchestrating the biggest campaign of murder in Europe since the Holocaust, smiling, attending his son's wedding, singing Serbian songs. What is particularly remarkable is the extent to which these clips show the criminality of every Serbian government since Milosevic who has claimed that they did not know where Mladic was. If you have the stomach to watch this murderer, you will see that he is moving in open sight and is guarded by the Serbian and Bosnian Serb army (and sometimes is not guarded at all!), as it had been reported all along.
Now, Serbian President Boris Tadic is to be commended for his bravery in arresting Mladic's political henchmen the lunatic poet Radovan Karadzic: as a result, President Tadic has been surrounded by heavy security including a professional sniper squad due to threats against his life. His predecessor Zoran Djindjic had extradited Milosevic and paid with his life. I am glad that President Tadic is taking more precautions.
But this is still not enough. The crimes of Milosevic's Serbia are simply too grave to be ignored and Mladic has to be arrested immediately. Please join me in emailing the Serbian government to arrest Mladic immediately. The videos shown by the brilliant "60 Minutes" team ensure that the Serbian government, under any administration, can no longer prolong its legal--international and national--as well as moral responsibility to arrest this butcher and extradite him to the cells of the Hague.
The email of President Tadic's Secretary is: jzivanovic@predsednik.rs
It is also not coincidental that these clips were aired at the time the EU is mulling whether or not to allow Serbian citizens to enter Europe without visas. I am an enthusiastic supporter of open borders and bear no grudge against any individual Serbian citizen, but still believe it would be a crime if the EU accelerated Serbia's application for the EU membership, ahead of Bosnia's, while Mladic was still at large under the noses of the very government that is claiming to belong to the club of the EU.
With this in mind please email the EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, urging him to pressure the Serbian government to arrest General Ratko Mladic now that we all know where he is.
Until this happens, Serbia should not be allowed to join the EU or even begin the membership process.
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Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt Court/Irrefutable Proof the Hague Court Cannot Legitimately Prosecute Karadzic Case
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(The Documentary Secret United Nations ICC Meeting Papers Scanned Images)
This legal technicality indicates the Hague must dismiss charges against Dr Karadzic and others awaiting trials in the Hague jail; like it or not.
Unfortunately for the Signatures Of the Rome Statute United Nations member states instituting the ICC & ICTY housed at the Hague, insofar as the, Radovan Karadzic, as with the other Hague cases awaiting trial there, I personally witnessed these United Nations member states openly speaking about trading judicial appointments and verdicts for financial funding when I attended the 2001 ICC Preparatory Meetings at the UN in Manhattan making the iCTY and ICC morally incapable trying Radovan Karazdic and others.
I witnessed with my own eyes and ears when attending the 2001 Preparatory Meetings to establish an newly emergent International Criminal Court, the exact caliber of criminal corruption running so very deeply at the Hague, that it was a perfectly viable topic of legitimate conversation in those meetings I attended to debate trading verdicts AND judicial appointments, for monetary funding.
Jilly wrote:*The rep from Spain became distraught and when her country’s proposal was not taken to well by the chair of the meeting , then Spain argued in a particularly loud and noticably strongly vocal manner, “Spain (my country) strongly believes if we contribute most financial support to the Hague’s highest court, that ought to give us and other countries feeding it financially MORE direct power over its decisions.”
((((((((((((((((((((((((( ((((((((((((((((((((((((( Instead of censoring the country representative from Spain for even bringing up this unjust, illegal and unfair judicial idea of bribery for international judicial verdicts and judicial appointments, all country representatives present in the meeting that day all treated the Spain proposition as a ”totally legitimate topic” discussed and debated it between each other for some time. I was quite shocked!
The idea was "let's discuss it." "It's a great topic to discuss."
Some countries agreed with Spain’s propositions while others did not. The point here is, bribery for judicial verdicts and judicial appointments was treated as a totally legitimate topic instead of an illegitimate toic which it is in the meeting that I attended in 2001 that day to establish the ground work for a newly emergent international criminal court.))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
In particular., since "Spain" was so overtly unafraid in bringing up this topic of trading financial funding the ICC for influence over its future judicial appointments and verdicts in front of every other UN member state present that day at the UN, "Spain" must have already known by previous experience the topic of bribery was "socially acceptable" for conversation that day. They must have previously spoke about bribing the ICTY and
ICC before in meetings; this is my take an international sociological honor student. SPAIN's diplomatic gesture of international justice insofar as, Serbia, in all of this is, disgusting morally!
SPAIN HAS TAUGHT THE WORLD THE TRUE DEFINITION OF AN
"INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT."
I represented the state interests' of the Former Yugoslavia, in Darko Trifunovic’s absence in those meetings and I am proud to undertake this effort on Serbia’s behalf.
What It’s Like to Chill with the Most Ruthless Men in the World
Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic: Confessions of a Female War Crimes Investigator
Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the world’s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing you’d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about.
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