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Sarajevo is not your city, Mr Karadzic, but mine

02 March 2010 | By Nidzara Ahmetasevic

Radovan Karadzic 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.


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Pieter Feith, the head of the International Civilian Office in Kosovo, said that the opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence could help alleviate tense relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

Belgium Sends Back Asylum Seekers
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Belgium intends to begin sending back asylum seekers from Serbia and Macedonia this week. The first bus, carrying 44 passengers, left Brussels this morning.

Lalovic and Skiljevic: High Standards of Medical Treatment in Kula
11 March 2010 |

Slavko Zdrale, former Director of Kasindol hospital, says there was a dispensary which applied "high standards" in Kula Penal and Correctional Facility, adding that prisoners were taken to hospital if necessary.



Mladic Liked Beach Holidays, Was Stingy

Belgrade | 25 February 2009 |
 
Mladic in an undated wartime photo
Mladic in an undated wartime photo
Serbia’s secret services are discovering more details about top war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic every day, with the latest information suggesting he spent a two-week holiday on the Montenegrin coast in 1997 but was stingy and ungracious with his guards and staff.

With Mladic's arrest a condition for Serbia's European Union progress, Belgrade says it is doing its best to find the fomer Bosnian Serb general: it has set up hotlines, put out reward posters and is painstakingly collecting details on his movements and mindset from former associates.

The latest titbit of information has Mladic spending two weeks in luxury on the Montenegrin coast in 1997, but being very tight-fisted with the people guarding him, Vecernje Novosti daily reported on Wednesday.

“Mladic rented a big two-storey house where he was accommodated, and ordered his security guards to sleep in a tent next to the villa,” a source told the paper. The more than ten people who guarded Mladic  complained about the heat and uncomfortable accommodation, but to no avail. They were also angry about their modest salaries – they got 100 German marks for 15 days of work. 

Mladic had planned to stay in the village of Rezevici much longer, but shortened his stay to just 15 days.
“Montenegrin authorities were agitated when they found out that Mladic was on their territory,” the source said. "The general sensed the danger to his security and fearing an eventual arrest suddenly he interrupted his holidays and returned to Belgrade.

Mladic is indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, ICTY, on two counts of genocide for the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the massacre of some 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys during the fall of the eastern Bosniak enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995.  He is also charged with a dozen counts of other crimes against humanity for his actions through the war.

(Reporting by Ljiljana Cvekic)



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Comments:
Mladic...
2009-02-25 21:24:19
What a nice, charming, generous, warm-hearted fellow. Not to mention all his other heroic and chivalrous actions. Makes me almost wish I had a daughter or a sister in nubile age. Because then I could forbid her to marry a guy like that. (well, no need of that actually. Hehas as much attractive and as much sex appeal as a road accident)

Mladic
2009-02-25 23:26:20
I wonder who this source is and why Mladic's minders would tell him all this. Like any guards, they are meant to guard which means they have to stay outside on alert. This is nothing unusual. I cannot believe that they would complain to this "source" about their salaries and working conditions. How close is this "source" to them and if he knows so much why hasn't he told the authorities his whereabouts. This sounds like a whole lot of fiction.

My source tells me....................
2009-02-26 00:24:59
The source??? Hah the source came from serbs like you. I bet next time they going to come up with a story that they found mladic’s underwear. “Breaking news world, the source tells us that the last time mladic took a dump was in RS. So with that said, we are very close to finding him.” I don’t understand you peggy darling, are you feeling sorry for the guards or for mladic. It seems to me that you consider mladic car lazar. Perhaps you should refer to him as car mladic!!!!! After all, he is you hero isn’t.
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archlir
2009-02-26 02:28:20
Archilir. what the hell is wrong with you? What exactly did I say to suggest that I feel sorry for the guards or that I think of Mladic as a Tzar? Go on do tell me what exactly did I say to suggest either of those. I am fed up with people like you putting words in my mouth simply because you have so much hate for me. Tough, live with your hate. Either give examples for your accusations or shut up.

Monster
2009-02-26 07:26:50
Besides the beach Mladic likes to savagely murder thousands of innocent civilians. He needs to be arrested and extradited ASAP by the Serbian government so that justice can be brought to this cheap bum.

Nederlands has a lot of beaches!
2009-02-26 19:45:55
Send him to Hague and maybe he will get to enjoy the coastal line from his prison cell!

to Defender of Truth
2009-02-26 22:50:05
Defender of thruth, you sound more like a destroyer of truth. If you really want to defend the truth then state how repulsive you find your leaders in Kosovo who have harvested organs from innocent Serbs only to make a buck. How repulsive you find your leaders in Kosovo who have murdered innocent Albanians too just for not following their extreme and insane cause. Now that would be defending the truth.

we are here to help you peggy
2009-02-27 00:58:59
Oh peggy peggy, you just don’t get it do you. You defend your tzar mladic from horrible crimes that he and his people committed, crimes that Nazis did in WWII – I know, your brain can’t handle the truth. Yeah yeah yeah serbs fought against Nazis and the rest of the world cooperated with them blah blah blah. I’m not putting words in your mouth, they are coming from your mouth. We are talking about your tzar and his crimes, and you go on and on about fictional stories of all those innocent-peaceful-loving-we never did anything wrong-serbs of yours and their organs being harvested by Albanians. That’s RS – I’m sorry – BS and you know it. We don’t hate you peggy, we’re just trying to educate you and release you from the propaganda that is embedded in your brain. You are a brainwashed child who needs to know the truth.
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Defending who's truth?
2009-02-27 01:01:54
Peggy here's a fact: Mladic is a wanted war criminal indicted for having committed the worst atrocity (i.e. genocide) against an innocent civilian Bosniak population since WWII. 8000 civilians were brutally murdered and dumped into shallow mass graves. The international community wants him arrested and it is Serbia's duty to arrest and extradite him. As far as what happened in Kosovo is concerned, a detailed investigation should be undertaken to find out what happened and who is responsible for it. The truth should speak for itself once the investigation is completed, and those found to be guilty should of course be punished, as far as I'm concerned justice is blind to ethnicity and religion. But since this article was specifically written about the monster Mladic I am a bit curious why you have brought up Kosovo for discussion, comparing war crimes perhaps, seeking a sense of equivalency perhaps. Mladic needs to be arrested and tried, fairly I might add, and the evidence will certainly condemn him for what he did, before God has his turn.


2009-02-27 10:41:55
Are'nt you ashamed for God's sake? The Courts all over the world wouldnt be able to tackle all these "people" for their crimes. How the hell u still feel proud??

Swell...
2009-02-28 00:59:17
that anybody would want to speak up for a horrible person like that. Those who defend this monstrous horrible man and his doings are just as bad as him.

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