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Belgrade sends Ratko Mladic’s diaries to ICTY

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Belgrade sends Ratko Mladic’s diaries to ICTY

Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, right, and his general Ratko Mladic are seen on Mountain Vlasic in this April 1995 file photo.

Diaries written by Bosnian Serb military commander and fugitive war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic have been sent by Belgrade to the international tribunal in The Hague for use in evidence in the war crimes trial of Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, it emerged on May 19 2010.
 
Prosecutors declined to disclose the content of the diaries, which were seized earlier in 2010 from the Belgrade apartment of Mladic's wife. But they have asked the war crimes tribunal for permission to use them in the ongoing trial of Mladic's former boss Karadzic, the Voice of America said. 
 
Karadzic is on trial for allegedly masterminding Bosnian Serb atrocities throughout the Bosnian war, which ended in 1995.
 
Separately, the court upheld the acquittal of Ljube Boškoski, who had been charged with failing to punish subordinates for a deadly attack in August 2001 on the ethnic Albanian village of Ljuboten. At the time of the attack, Boškoski was Macedonia’s interior minister.
 
Boškoski launched an unsuccessful bid for the Macedonian presidency last year. 
 
In the same ruling, the court upheld the conviction and 12-year prison term for the commander of the operation, Johan Tarculovski.
 
The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) upheld the 2008 conviction of Tarculovski for ordering, planning and instigating the murder of three ethnic Albanian civilians in Ljuboten, the wanton destruction of 12 houses or other property and the cruel treatment of 13 ethnic Albanian civilians, the UN News Service said.
 
The ICTY upheld that Tarculovski’s actions during the police operation constituted "violations of the laws or customs of war," according to a media statement issued by the court.
 
The appeals chamber dismissed all of Tarculovski’s seven grounds of appeal.
 
The tribunal upheld the conviction of Serb Radical Party leader Vojislav Šešelj for contempt of court and his 15-month jail sentence for disclosing information on 11 protected witnesses.
 
The ICTY appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) reaffirmed last year’s conviction and sentencing of Šešelj for revealing the real names, occupations and places of residence of the witnesses in a book he authored, dismissing his eight grounds of appeal.
 
Šešelj, who was born in 1954 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is currently being tried on 14 counts of crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war.

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Anonymous delusionals_need replies2 Wed, Feb 16 2011 18:58 CET

Peggy

DADO, He has not been tried or convicted of anything.

Obviously, because he is hiding like a rat, now why would a rat hide if he is not guilty, and for this long.?

Remember, rats bring in lots of diseases. And sound like Serbia is genocide sick.

Anonymous Jill Starr Sun, Jan 23 2011 04:21 CET


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'''Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt Court/Irrefutable Proof the Hague Court Cannot Legitimately Prosecute Karadzic Case By Jill Starr
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 having a substantial [...]

Read the full comment conversations, and, 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 topic 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 Diplomat Darko Trifunovic’s absence in those meetings and I am proud to undertake this effort on Serbia’s behalf.

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AnonymousBosnia1Thu, Jun 10 2010 15:31 CET

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Anonymous Peggy Sat, May 22 2010 03:56 CET

DADO, you mean lynching can be carried out. He has not been tried or convicted of anything and here you are wanting to "carry out justice".
Obviously he should not be handed over to a court which has already pronounced him guilty without a trial.

Anonymous DADO Thu, May 20 2010 18:37 CET

When are they going to arrest and extradite this genocidal monster so that justice can be carried out?


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