Tag: Mladic
In 2012, judge Matimba demolished not just her fellow-judges’ legal findings in the Tolimir trial but implicitly thrashed the Hague Tribunal as well. On June 8 she could tweak the Tribunal’s tail again, Stephen Karganovic writes.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) last Thursday (August 25th) held another court hearing on the case of Gen Ratko Mladic, following almost two months of lull since the last hearing in late June. But summer vacation is not the only thing to explain such a long pause. In fact, the events unfolded in quite an unpleasant way… The prosecution said that two separate trials were needed in view of the fact that Mladic has 'health problems'…
It is difficult to say if the Serbian special services applied the US experience of tortures In Guantanamo to Radko Mladic or they used less sophisticated kind of tortures but there is at least one thing we can “congratulate” the executors with – they have managed to fit the community of the “civilized” Western special services…
The arrest in Serbia of former Bosnian Serb army commander, legendary Gen. R. Mladic and the statement on the illegitimacy of Gadhafi’s rule in Libya issued collectively at the G8 summit in Deauville combine neatly within the same paradigm: in a unipolar world, as long as it continues to exist, leaders of the countries outside of the top league are not entitled to independent policies…