KA

Bottom line...

"Mr. Tadic, you have heard the disposition of the Appeals Chamber’s judgement in your two appeals. The substance of the disposition is that you will serve a period of 20 years’ imprisonment"

Bottom line ... That is by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

Guilty as charged!

Listening to various posters you would think he's on a beach in Cancun sipping Margaritas. LOL.

Desa Tomasevic, Director of the American Serbian Women's Caucus to Senator Richard Lugar, Chair of the European Affairs Senate Foreign Relations Committee, dated July l4 1995:
"In connection with the most recent developments in Bosnia and Croatia, our organization would like to pose the following questions to your Committee, which is responsible for the evens in the former Yugoslav Republics. Since we did not receive any response from your Committee to our letter of May 5, 1995, concerning the aftermath of Croatian attack on Western Slavonia, we would like to repeat our questions to you personally:
(1). Where were the UN and the US representatives and the media in May, when the Croatian military performed its ethnic cleansing in Pakrac, Okucani and other Serbian settlements in the area?
(2). What happened to the Serbian children from this area who are still missing?
(3) What happened to the Serbian refugees from this area, bombed by the Croatian planes?
(4). What happened to the Serbian young men from this area caught by the Croatian forces?
(5). What happened to the Serbian dead in this area?
(6). Why were the UN and Red Cross representatives forbidden for weeks to enter the area?
(7). Was it because the Croatian government would not allow them to record and report the truth about massacre of Serbian civilians?
(8). Why is it taking so long to provide answers to the inquiries made by the Serbs to media, the United Nations, Red Cross and the governments of the Contact Group? Today, all of them arc posing similar questions in the aftermath of the fall of Srebrenica and the experiences of the Muslim population of Bosnia.
(9). Why is the Contact group refusing to tail directly to Bosnia's Serbs? Until Israel opened direct talks with Arafat, no mutual accommodations were possible.
(10). Why are you taking sides in this human catastrophe in which all parties are victims and victimizers? As long as our government is taking sides, it will be responsible for further bloodshed. Please read the enclosed to gain a perspective which may help you personally to discharge your responsibility justly".

Very good,they learned their lesson.

any comment on the 5:31 post, or the point that you are avoiding?

I think you wrote in one of your posts about the American justice procedure in court. Did you read the extract Kissie posted about the ruling made at Nuremburg. Re: we will not introduce any laws in this court, to which we in America would not want to be subjected to?
The Hague works on the same principal!
Innocent untill proven guilty, due process.
Due to our predominant view that the Serbs were the most to blame for the conflict - One massmurderer got away with it! Other crimes against humanity are not being punished.

Surely we shouldn't in these circumstances be saying -Serbs v Bosnia -
but military/irregulars/governments V. civilians!

The UN has observed that there is a shift in military conflicts to using the movement/harrasment and torture of the civilian population as a military tactic. (See Ruanda and UNHCR web site)

Kim

Kissie,

Two wrongs don't make a right? I'm sure you've heard that before ... although living in Israel you would not necessarily give credence to such wisdom. LOL.

KA,

Above is your answer to post 5:31...

Without the Israeli part ofcourse. LOL.

Allam, now that was a really lame response to a perfectly reasonable argument, and you know it.

Meier's law - "If the facts don't fit the argument, ignore them?"
Had you heard of that one? >G<

Kim

We are back to square one.

We should all be glad today because a criminal is no longer free. Justice has prevailed.

I don't see why this is facing resistance! LOL.

In 1993, as the Clinton Administration decided on an undeclared war against the Bosnian Serbs, the United Nations Security Council set up an International Tribunal to deal with war crimes in the former Yugoslavia since 1991. It was housed at the Hague, not far from the World Court, extant since 1907. The UN Charter made no provision for such a Tribunal. Two Muslim states, Pakistan and Malaysia, were among the earliest financial backers. None of the initial 25 hand-picked jurists came from a single country that could be held to be favorable to the Serbs on either political or religious grounds or both. The Tribunal's first investigative Commission was headed by an ardent Sunni Muslim scholar from Egypt. His report on war crimes concerned exclusively a section of eastern Bosnia with a once-predominantly Muslim population.
By early 1994, the "Tribunal" received an important shipment of documents, many of better than prima facie quality, listing crimes committed against the Serbs since 1991. The evidence was submitted through the diplomatic pouch, it was duly signed for and, to this day, has never been used to indict anyone. It was, however, traced to Chicago's DePaul University where the Commission's head (Mammoud Cherif Bassiouni) taught international law. A small team of Catholic volunteer students was given the assignment of preparing a data-base from an even larger documentation for all of the former Yugoslavia, while the FBI provided in-house security. When asked to account for the missing documents for crimes against the Serbs, the Commission's head claimed he knew nothing about them. Clear, that something is wrong with The Hague "Tribunal".

Oh •••• it's nearly lunchtime,
another perfectly beautiful sunny morning, spent
losing the battle for humanity.
Must go.

Best of days to you all.
Kim

OHAYA, KISAKO!
the greetings of the 0520 for you!
==

Allam, one final question:

Do three wrongs make a right?

Bye
Kim

KA

Lame response...???

What answers are you looking for?
What you say is not wrong -

I'm not in the business of defending criminals.

As far As I am concerned they should all be arrested and tried. But I will never complain of how it's done or in what order! Which is what you are doing.

Remember, that most arrest orders are sealed indictments ... NO ONE KNOWS who will be next OR who's even on the list!

Aha,

At the time, Serb moderates were wresting control of republican affairs from hard-line nationalists like Krajisnik who were refusing to cooperate with international peace coordinators, jeopardizing reconstruction aid.

AS long as it IS done!!! Then we agree.
Kim