Radovan Karadzic captured

[CANADIEN]

The former leader of the Bosnian Serbs during the Bosnian war, indicted on 15 counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other atrocities committed between 1992 to 1996, has been captured.

When he arrives in The Hague, I hope he gets adequate representation and a trial according to the rule of law. That way, when he is found guilty, and he will, there will be no doubt that justice has been served.

[Remiel]

That leaves just Mladic and maybe one other guy on the loose, does it not?

[CANADIEN]

That leaves just Mladic and maybe one other guy on the loose, does it not?

And some small fish I suppose.

[DogOnPorch]

My wife named one of her bunnies "Rabbit-van Carrot-dish" when he was in the news years ago. Had Karadzic's hair.

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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

---John Updike

[August1991]

The former leader of the Bosnian Serbs during the Bosnian war, indicted on 15 counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other atrocities committed between 1992 to 1996, has been captured.

This is only useful if it means that other or future political psychopaths change their behaviour.

I suspect that the US invasion of Iraq and the subsequent capture of Saddam Hussein will have greater effect. But this is a good event for the world.

[CANADIEN]

My wife named one of her bunnies "Rabbit-van Carrot-dish" when he was in the news years ago. Had Karadzic's hair.

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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

---John Updike

Your wife should be charged with animal cruelty.

[DogOnPorch]

Your wife should be charged with animal cruelty.

She has an interesting sense of humor. The rabbit did look like the wigglely nosed version of Karadzic, though. One of those long haired types with a big shock of black and white on top of the noggin'.

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Now, Doc, let's not start splittin' hares!

---Buggs Bunny

Edited July 23, 2008 by DogOnPorch

[lost&outofcontrol]

The Srebrenica Research Group

Researchers and Former UN Officials Challenge Portrayal of Events at Srebrenica

NEW YORK--On the tenth anniversary of the capture of Srebrenica, two former senior UN officials, along with a group of journalists and academic researchers, cast serious doubt on what they say are “highly inflated casualty figures and a misleading portrayal of events by governments, non governmental organizations and major news organizations.”

On Monday afternoon, the Srebrenica Research Group, joined by former UN officials Phillip Corwin and Carlos Martins Branco, released conclusions from their 200 page report “Srebrenica and the Politics of War Crimes” which says that US policy undermined UN and European brokered peace settlements which could have ended the war in 1992 or 1993 to pursue a military solution which inevitably endangered safe zones. By facilitating shipments of illegal weapons to Muslim forces, the US helped turn safe zones into staging areas for conflict and tripwires for NATO intervention. The group, which will soon release the full report, announced the following conclusions:

-- The premise that Serbian forces executed 7,000 to 8,000 people “was never a possibility”.

-- US policy in Bosnia endangered safe zones by opposing UN requests to provide enough personnel to demilitarize these enclaves and by facilitating illegal arms shipments to Muslim forces through C-130 Hercules night time deliveries to the Tuzla airport. The US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) led this operation, which also welcomed Mujahadeen fighters allied with al-Qaeda, according Professor Cees Wiebes who wrote the intelligence section of the Dutch government report on Srebrenica.

-- The International Criminal Tribunal on Yugoslavia (ICTY) whose staff had been largely appointed by Madeleine Albright, then US Ambassador to the United Nations, acknowledged political considerations when they issued indictments for genocide against Bosnian Serb leaders in on July 27, only three days after their chief investigator Hubert Wieland told the Daily Telegraph that in five days of interviews with scores among the 20,000 refugees gathered at the Tuzla airport: “We have not found anyone who saw with their own eyes an atrocity taking place.” Richard Holbrooke candidly told the BBC “I realized that the War Crimes Tribunal was a very valuable tool. We used it to keep the two most wanted war criminals in Europe out of the Dayton process and we used it to justify everything that followed.” What followed were trial proceedings in which witnesses who received leniency if they agreed to provide testimony sought by the Hague prosecution to justify indictments made for political reasons. Thus, Momir Nikolic a prosecution witness in the Krstic trial was induced to say he supervised a massacre in Kravica until he admitted in cross examination that he not only lied by about supervising a massacre he never there and had no idea if one had occurred.

The Liberals will no doubt soil themselves with excitement, gloat for a while about beatific qualities of INTERNATIONAL LAW and then go back to their studied silence about Iraq or the Occupied Territories.

(Note: This is not an outright denial)

[M.Dancer]

The Liberals will no doubt soil themselves with excitement, gloat for a while about beatific qualities of INTERNATIONAL LAW and then go back to their studied silence about Iraq or the Occupied Territories.

Possibly because international law has not been broken in Iraq in over 25 years and the Israeli captured territories are occupied in accordance with international law.

Edited July 24, 2008 by M.Dancer

[lost&outofcontrol]

Possibly because international law has not been broken in Iraq in over 25 years and the Israeli captured territories are occupied in accordance with international law.

Did the repeated use of chemical ordinance in Fallujah break any law? Does the torture of prisoners break any law? Has deporting (exporting one's dirty business) prisoners for "interrogation" to secret prisons break any law? Does preventing all male inhabitants of a city to leave so they can be massacre represent breaking the "law"?

[CANADIEN]

Possibly because international law has not been broken in Iraq in over 25 years and the Israeli captured territories are occupied in accordance with international law.

There must be two Iraq and two sets of occupied territories then, because in the Iraq I know the U.S. broke international law the moment it started the war, and the construction of Isreali settlements in the occupied teritories is a clear violation of international law.

[CANADIEN]

The Srebrenica Research Group

The Liberals will no doubt soil themselves with excitement, gloat for a while about beatific qualities of INTERNATIONAL LAW and then go back to their studied silence about Iraq or the Occupied Territories.

(Note: This is not an outright denial)

Thank you for telling us that. I could have been fooled.

[Nodoubt]

The former leader of the Bosnian Serbs during the Bosnian war, indicted on 15 counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other atrocities committed between 1992 to 1996, has been captured.

When he arrives in The Hague, I hope he gets adequate representation and a trial according to the rule of law. That way, when he is found guilty, and he will, there will be no doubt that justice has been served.

Next should be Mr.Putin who helped Karadzic. Russian Nationalists want him to go to The Hague.

[HisSelf]

This is a very good validation of the World Court in the Hague. Give the man a fair trial. Let's await the outcome.

Funny how the US is not protesting.

I love it.

Further and further into that little dark corner...

[janedame]

Justice in this case was overdue, but then again, the important thing is he is captured and is being tried for his crimes against humanity.