Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.
Karadzic's Lawyer to file ‘Last-minute Appeal’
| 25 July 2008 |
Police outside the building where Karadzic is being held
However the international administrator for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Miroslav Lajcak has ignored the request of Karadzic's family to return their documents ahead of his extradition, saying that this case does not present any kind of humanitarian crisis.
"The Karadzic family will have many opportunities to visit their father but many of Srebrenica people will never have that chance," Lajcak told Sarajevo media, referring to the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslim boys and man in that town in eastern Bosnia.
"Documents were confiscated on my order under the suspicion that the family was involved in the support network for war crimes suspects still at large. I do not see why this case turned into a humanitarian issue," Lajcak said.
Meanwhile Serbian hardliners are preparing for the fourth straight day of protest against the arrest in Belgrade as the Radical Party and several minor nationalist groups have stormed the streets of capital, shouting pro-Karadzic slogans. Reporters have also been attacked during the rallies. Read more: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12064/
Peaceful protests throughout Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska will start on Saturday, Karadzic's former party said.
Karadzic could be extradited to The Hague as soon as the panel of judges decides on the appeal. Earlier, Belgrade officials announced that could happen over the weekend or early next week.
