Thursday, May 26, 2011

Ratko.


This is coolbert:

The accused Serb war criminal General Ratko Mladic after sixteen years finally run-to-ground, arrested by the Serb government in Belgrade - - that arrest in a much belated manner according to some!

"Serbia arrests Mladic on war crimes charges"

"BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — After 16 years on the run, a frail and haggard Ratko Mladic was hauled before a judge Thursday — the first step in facing charges for international war crimes, including the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995."

"He was accused by the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for the massacre of Muslims by Bosnian Serb forces in eastern Bosnia and the relentless four-year siege of Sarajevo."

The before and after images of Mladic very strking, the man apparently in very bad health, the sixteen years hiatus showing a man not even resembling the strutting general in command - - 1995.



"Judge suspends interrogation due to Mladić's ill health"

Justice delayed is justice denied? That is the adage. And that interenational tribunal works with glacial slowness. Ratko will of course not face the death penalty, that penalty is not permissible under the rules of the international court, Mladic perhaps expiring before a judgment is rendered?

coolbert.

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