June 05, 2007 (the date of publication in Russian)
Alexei Baliyev
TADIC CATCHING MLADIC
Belgrade is looking for the head of the Bosnian Serbs to hand him over to The Hague
The "Democratic Coalition" that formed the new government of Serbia in May has begun to cooperate more and more with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Not long ago, when the country's secret service was completely controlled by Prime Minister Vojislav Koshtunitsa, it only gave the appearance of trying to find General Ratko Mladic. However, after President Boris Tadic's position had been secured, the hunt for the leader of the Serbian resistance really began. General Zdravko Tolimir, one of Mladic's leading supporters, was arrested at the border between Serbia and the Serbian Republic in Bosnia. He was immediately flown over by a NATO plane to The Hague.
The General is seriously ill and requires medical treatment. Now Tolimir will be "cured" in The Hague by tribunal-appointed doctors. It is well known, that when Slobodan Milosevic, who passed away last year, was in their care, they prescribed anti-leprosy drugs while he suffered from a cardiovascular disease.
Like Mladic, Tolimir has been accused of genocide against the Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica. Note that Tolimir will be tried soon, while the cases of Croatian Generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac, who were captured in 2005-2006 and are accused of violence against Serbs, are postponed.
The list of Serbs wanted for genocide numbers 20, while the analogous list in Croatia contains only 10 names. Whether or not six Bosnian Muslims had anything to do with genocide is still being investigated by the ICTY . Overall, however, the number of casualties in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serb Krajina (East Croatia, along the Serbian border) is 1.5 times greater than in Croatians and Bosnian Muslims.
For the past two years Serbian communities in Kosovo have been demanding that the ICTY acknowledge that ethnic "purges" take place in the autonomy, carried out by Albanian chauvinists. According to Serbian sources the Albanian terror, which was supported in 1999 by the UN with its "Peace-keepers", has resulted in over 13 thousand Serbian deaths in Kosovo in 1995-2006.
The tribunal has refused to investigate these claims, and threatens Serbians with a "counter-investigation" into the alleged "anti- Albanian" "purges"which have supposedly taken place since the time of Tito.
The UN has said that the delay of the trial of the Croatian Generals is necessary in order to "look into new material provided by both the defense and the accusation, and because of the frail health of the accused". When Slobodan Milosevic was interrogated and tried, he was treated with far less consideration: his doctors' pleas were completely ignored.
Milos Kovic, a Serbian analyst and historin, has said: "The Hague Tribunal has decided to blame the Serbs for all of the genocide in the former Yugoslavia- with obvious consequences for the Serbia and Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the thousands deported from Croatia and Kosovo".
Therefore, completely disregarding all international ideas of justice and civilization, the Serbs have been proven "guilty" without even the benefit of a trial. The State Department of the US, on the day of Slobodan Milosevic's death, gave its own verdict: "he was a key figure, responsible for the violent break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, including the two wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo".
According to the UN Economic and Social Council, the Serbian population in Croatia has fallen from 23 to 3 percent, in Bosnia and Herzegovina – from 34 to 26 percent, in Kosovo – 23 to 3 percent. Therefore, the alleged culprit of the ethnic violence is really the one that has suffered most from the genocide in the Balkans.
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