Del Ponte appeals to Merkel

Del Ponte is much to blame fo the continued liberty of Mladic and Karadzic. If crimes against Serbs were persued in the aftermath of the 1990s conflicts then perhaps Mladic and Karadzic would be languishing in the Hague, as opposed to being revered as the Serbs' only prominant protest against the international communities' unwillingness to act with an even hand.

If she has "Strong evidence" she should present it, if not she should keep her mouth shut.

Carla del Ponte forgot to mention that her intelligence report came for the same US & UK who said that there is strong evidence for WMD's in Iraq!

No one belives the lies of intelligence reports it is all "political" and has no basis on intelligence!

The self important Del Ponte retires in the next few months and no-one takes her seriously anymore.

Sounds like the last stand for a woman knowing her time is up and she has failed miserably. It's great to lay blame on a whole country without providing much evidence as to why. If she had strong evidence wouldn't it be very easy to apprehend them? Obviously if you know someone is being helped and the evidence is 'strong', you should be able to pinpoint the lads helping him. Her own shortcomings are now not magnified because she has taken the lowly road of blaming a nation, similarly as Bosnia had.

I don't understand if Ms. Del Ponte feels as though she is God and everyone must abide by her wishes. Urging this message to be sent to all EU member heads, that Serbia cannot start SAA until she says it's OK. Ridiculous.

It's amazing to see that there are people like you who still question the actions committed by the Serbs -- led by Karadzic and Mladic -- in the former Yugoslav territories. What more evidence do you need? Aren't mass graves all over Bosnia enough?

There should be NO linking of economic issues with political ones(Kosovo status or the indictee issues).The greatest strength of the EU lies mainly in the fact that it is a free trade/economic zone of 490 million people and a very effective one at that.Its 27 member states cannot unanimously agree on a POLITICAL issue as significant as Kosovo.However, as far as the indictee issue is concerned if Ms.Ponte knows where the remaining indictees are then by all means send Interpol to arrest them.I believe in INDIVIDUAL responsibility and do not care what ethnicity a criminal is.A criminal by any other name is still a criminal but to link the economic well being of millions in the Balkans to the fate of 6 men is RIDICULOUS to say the least and I hope enough decisionmakers in Europe are coming to realize this.As far as Kosovo is concerned the legalist Europeans have backed themselves into a corner because there does NOT appear to be a legal mechanism for Kosovo to become an independent country.The year for independence may have been 1999 but 2007 is a completely different political reality on the world stage and the UNSC will probably not vote to allow Kosovo to secede.Autonomy according to the highest standards is the best that Kosovo is going to LEGALLY get.The US is only as important as China to this issue seeming as how neither is geographically located in Europe and each one has equal veto power in the UN so the key will be Russia.It is Russia which is the most important country for the long term stability of Europe and one look at the map should dispel anybody's doubts.No sane European thinks that the wishes of 6m Albanians is more important than 11m Serbs or 150m Russians to the long term security of the European continent but it is the immediate fear of KLA attacks that is pushing some in Europe to setle the staus issue sooner than later.While no military analyst thinks that the KLA can win any kind of open war against the Serbian military if NATO withdraws -just the thought of any more killing in the Balkans is repugnant to civilized people..What the chessmaster himself Vladimir Putin decides will determine Kosovo's LEGAL fate but from my reading of statements coming from Moscow there does not appear to be any support whatsoever for independence if Belgrade does not consent.

Jon,

mass graves? excuse me. have you seen mass graves? you have been there personally? and in these mass graves there must have been tatoos of what religion they were right? all you have seen are fabrications and lies. yes people were killed, but might i remind you, there was a war? but hey, you are like the rest of the world that thinks NO serbs have died. what we are saying is dont punish us for WAR when you let croatia take a fast track as a reward for ethnically cleansing their nation of over 250,000 serbs.

Jon, I'm sorry but I can't believe there are people like you still that cannot make up your mind for yourself. you are force fed news from biased sources looking to demonize the serbs. you have the main correspondent during the war in bosnia being muslim and i'm wondering if you have ever read the novel 1984? whoever wins writes history. you are buying into what the u.s., nato, and eu wants you to believe in.

Joh,, I don't think that anyone is denying the fact that crimes were committed, rather that the Hague was very unfair in some of their rulings such as of Nasar Oric. For someone who brutally and sadistically murdered innocent serbian villagers and only to get 2 years is really scandalous. That of course doesn't mean that Mr. K and Gen M should not be sent to the Hague. None of the sides that participated in the war are innocent. Everyone is guilty. Let the punishment fit the crime!!

Milan, I'm not suggesting that the Serbs are the only ones who committed crimes in Bosnia and elsewhere. Of course everyone was involved in these shameful acts -- the magnitude of crimes committed by Serbs however is bigger. My point is that 800 men did die in Srebrenica, and people like Mladic, Karadzic, Gotovina, Oric should be in the Hague. There is undisputed evidence that Mr. Mladic did order the execution.

Del Ponte is much to blame fo the continued liberty of Mladic and Karadzic. If crimes against Serbs were persued in the aftermath of the 1990s conflicts then perhaps Mladic and Karadzic would be languishing in the Hague, as opposed to being revered as the Serbs' only prominant protest against the international communities' unwillingness to act with an even hand.

If she has "Strong evidence" she should present it, if not she should keep her mouth shut.

Carla del Ponte forgot to mention that her intelligence report came for the same US & UK who said that there is strong evidence for WMD's in Iraq!

No one belives the lies of intelligence reports it is all "political" and has no basis on intelligence!

The self important Del Ponte retires in the next few months and no-one takes her seriously anymore.

Sounds like the last stand for a woman knowing her time is up and she has failed miserably. It's great to lay blame on a whole country without providing much evidence as to why. If she had strong evidence wouldn't it be very easy to apprehend them? Obviously if you know someone is being helped and the evidence is 'strong', you should be able to pinpoint the lads helping him. Her own shortcomings are now not magnified because she has taken the lowly road of blaming a nation, similarly as Bosnia had.

I don't understand if Ms. Del Ponte feels as though she is God and everyone must abide by her wishes. Urging this message to be sent to all EU member heads, that Serbia cannot start SAA until she says it's OK. Ridiculous.

It's amazing to see that there are people like you who still question the actions committed by the Serbs -- led by Karadzic and Mladic -- in the former Yugoslav territories. What more evidence do you need? Aren't mass graves all over Bosnia enough?

There should be NO linking of economic issues with political ones(Kosovo status or the indictee issues).The greatest strength of the EU lies mainly in the fact that it is a free trade/economic zone of 490 million people and a very effective one at that.Its 27 member states cannot unanimously agree on a POLITICAL issue as significant as Kosovo.However, as far as the indictee issue is concerned if Ms.Ponte knows where the remaining indictees are then by all means send Interpol to arrest them.I believe in INDIVIDUAL responsibility and do not care what ethnicity a criminal is.A criminal by any other name is still a criminal but to link the economic well being of millions in the Balkans to the fate of 6 men is RIDICULOUS to say the least and I hope enough decisionmakers in Europe are coming to realize this.As far as Kosovo is concerned the legalist Europeans have backed themselves into a corner because there does NOT appear to be a legal mechanism for Kosovo to become an independent country.The year for independence may have been 1999 but 2007 is a completely different political reality on the world stage and the UNSC will probably not vote to allow Kosovo to secede.Autonomy according to the highest standards is the best that Kosovo is going to LEGALLY get.The US is only as important as China to this issue seeming as how neither is geographically located in Europe and each one has equal veto power in the UN so the key will be Russia.It is Russia which is the most important country for the long term stability of Europe and one look at the map should dispel anybody's doubts.No sane European thinks that the wishes of 6m Albanians is more important than 11m Serbs or 150m Russians to the long term security of the European continent but it is the immediate fear of KLA attacks that is pushing some in Europe to setle the staus issue sooner than later.While no military analyst thinks that the KLA can win any kind of open war against the Serbian military if NATO withdraws -just the thought of any more killing in the Balkans is repugnant to civilized people..What the chessmaster himself Vladimir Putin decides will determine Kosovo's LEGAL fate but from my reading of statements coming from Moscow there does not appear to be any support whatsoever for independence if Belgrade does not consent.

Jon,

mass graves? excuse me. have you seen mass graves? you have been there personally? and in these mass graves there must have been tatoos of what religion they were right? all you have seen are fabrications and lies. yes people were killed, but might i remind you, there was a war? but hey, you are like the rest of the world that thinks NO serbs have died. what we are saying is dont punish us for WAR when you let croatia take a fast track as a reward for ethnically cleansing their nation of over 250,000 serbs.

Jon, I'm sorry but I can't believe there are people like you still that cannot make up your mind for yourself. you are force fed news from biased sources looking to demonize the serbs. you have the main correspondent during the war in bosnia being muslim and i'm wondering if you have ever read the novel 1984? whoever wins writes history. you are buying into what the u.s., nato, and eu wants you to believe in.

Joh,, I don't think that anyone is denying the fact that crimes were committed, rather that the Hague was very unfair in some of their rulings such as of Nasar Oric. For someone who brutally and sadistically murdered innocent serbian villagers and only to get 2 years is really scandalous. That of course doesn't mean that Mr. K and Gen M should not be sent to the Hague. None of the sides that participated in the war are innocent. Everyone is guilty. Let the punishment fit the crime!!

Milan, I'm not suggesting that the Serbs are the only ones who committed crimes in Bosnia and elsewhere. Of course everyone was involved in these shameful acts -- the magnitude of crimes committed by Serbs however is bigger. My point is that 800 men did die in Srebrenica, and people like Mladic, Karadzic, Gotovina, Oric should be in the Hague. There is undisputed evidence that Mr. Mladic did order the execution.