Belgrade reaction to Haradinaj acquittal "concerning"

The west, including the United Nations administration in Kosovo, used Haradinaj to control the masses. They intentionally ignored this thug's illegal activity becaused he served their purposes. Politics trump justice.

“The prosecution’s chief witness, Tahir Zemaj, and his son and nephew were shot dead during the investigation. Another witness, Kjutim Berisha, died two weeks before the trial when he was hit by a car in Podgorica, the Montenegren capital.”
http://pristina.usembassy.gov/press20030106.html

“Prosecutors both in Kosovo and The Hague argue that the United Nations and Western governments bent over backwards to stop the trial of someone charged with war crimes.”
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/26/news/kosovo.php

This article should state just how many people have died related to the case. That would be helpful to know. If two or three witnesses died, then I'd say it seems Belgrade is right.

Strange... No mentioning of Carla del Ponte's allegations. That would have been more interesting since she's an insider.

Now, we've seen what you just said but let's just say that from the outside the Hague tribunal looks highly politicised and... yes, irrelevant.

This government did not "hide" Mladic and Karadzic. Their sole goal was EU integration and Hague cooperation. The UNMIK chief was best friends with Haradinaj, and admittedly so. Why doesn't the Hague show more concern about KLA war crimes and less concern blaming Belgrade for their own wrongdoings.

Countries may have taken Belgrade seriously in this matter if they had handled the situation involving Karadžić and Mladic better. Because Serbia has hid (or is it "not been able to locate") these two, all your credibility on this issue is gone.

Nerma Jelačić ..... So all these witnesses died by accident. Wake up..They were murdered to protect the puppet placed by western governments. How long is this farce going to last.

Randal
“… all your (Serbia’s) credibility on this issue is gone…Mladic, Karadzic….”

Talking about credibility, I find it rather strange that so little effort is done to condemn US for the present carnage in Iraq. Actually, practically every single US administration sinds the WWII is responsible for the huge loss of life among the masses of innocent civilians. They should be brought to justice and sentenced as war criminals.

Lazer, justice, if exist, is universal, same for all. Selective “justice” is not justice at all. Mass murder of Iraqies should concern us all. They are people as every body else. Western countries don’t have any moral right to judge Serbia when West is responsible for war crimes of much bigger magnitude. Same Western politicians who are committing these crimes at this very moment, are criticizing Serbs? Why are all these Western human rights organizations that are so loud when they criticize countries as Serbia, Russia, China are so silent when it comes to Western crimes? What this silence tell us about their “objectivity” and “independence”?

The Hague HAS convited members of the KLA! They arent "blaming Belgrade for their own wrongdoings", they are trying to defend their institution. In my opinion the Hague should just close the book on the Balkans. They had there chance with Milosevic and blew it. At this point all the Hague does is bring back bad memories and gives the people of the Balkans another issue to be divided on.

Tribunal should be closed after lock in Karadzic and Mladic

Randal, I really agree with your comments. Serbia should take responsibility for its own problems of not capturing their mass murderers and war criminals. I think they did not meet their requirements, deliberatly.

For Stevan's comment. If we are discussing, Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo, why shift the conversation on Iraq?
Lets talk about Serbian war criminals.
We can talk about iraq and who's to blame in another blog. Lets just see Mladic and Karadžic in Hague, on trial. Maybe they'll set 'em free?

Stevan, I understand your point, but you can not defend Serbia for not capturing Mladic and Karadzic, and accuse US for the war in Iraq.
The two gentlemen above, ordered murders of tens of thousands of innocent Bosnian Muslims.
Then you have the Kosovo situation. I have many relatives in Kosovo who perished directly by Serbs, be they from Serbia, police or paramilitary formations. In the war in Kosovo, the military was a better part of all the Serb operational forces. We know that.
I think the war in Iraq was just, and regardless of everything you state against US, the killing is inter-ethnical and you also have terrorists who hate US and want us harm here in the USA.
US, has every right to kill the terrorists.
I would say, mixing apples and oranges is not a right thing.
In Russia, there were millions who disappeared in Gulags of Siberia. Not to mention China, they probably have more people killed then Russia, since its hard to distinguish.
Its better if you encourage your countrymen to look West instead of East. From East, you will get a BIG NOTHING.
Time to have leaders in Serbia who speak of re-conciliation, not division. Love and not hate. Progress, nor regress.
History teaches us a lot, but we don’t need to re-live history. We can not dwell on history, how great and strong we were. This is 3rd millennium. I haven’t seen Jesus yet, everyone talks about his coming soon.

This government did not "hide" Mladic and Karadzic. (Brian, 10 April 2008 19:22)
Not at all! In fact the serbian government it was so concerned with capturing Mladic that it was trying to lure him by paying him pension for 4-5 years.
Mladic's pension were withdrawn as far as 2,5 years ago. Here one link from an independent source:
http://www.publicinternationallaw.org/docs/BW2006/Balkan_Watch.3Jan_06.pdf

Here also a link from B92 archives :
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/comments.php?nav_id=32057

I guess is kind of hard for the serbian police to follow a collaborator of an internationaly wanted war criminal fugitive to see where he was going to deliver the money!! I guess you mean that Serbian cops are like Richard Nixon...can't chew a gum and walk at the same time.

Countries may have taken Belgrade seriously in this matter if they had handled the situation involving Karadžić and Mladic better. Because Serbia has hid (or is it "not been able to locate") these two, all your credibility on this issue is gone.

This article should state just how many people have died related to the case. That would be helpful to know. If two or three witnesses died, then I'd say it seems Belgrade is right.

The Hague HAS convited members of the KLA! They arent "blaming Belgrade for their own wrongdoings", they are trying to defend their institution. In my opinion the Hague should just close the book on the Balkans. They had there chance with Milosevic and blew it. At this point all the Hague does is bring back bad memories and gives the people of the Balkans another issue to be divided on.

Tribunal should be closed after lock in Karadzic and Mladic

Strange... No mentioning of Carla del Ponte's allegations. That would have been more interesting since she's an insider.

Now, we've seen what you just said but let's just say that from the outside the Hague tribunal looks highly politicised and... yes, irrelevant.

The west, including the United Nations administration in Kosovo, used Haradinaj to control the masses. They intentionally ignored this thug's illegal activity becaused he served their purposes. Politics trump justice.

“The prosecution’s chief witness, Tahir Zemaj, and his son and nephew were shot dead during the investigation. Another witness, Kjutim Berisha, died two weeks before the trial when he was hit by a car in Podgorica, the Montenegren capital.”
http://pristina.usembassy.gov/press20030106.html

“Prosecutors both in Kosovo and The Hague argue that the United Nations and Western governments bent over backwards to stop the trial of someone charged with war crimes.”
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/26/news/kosovo.php

This government did not "hide" Mladic and Karadzic. Their sole goal was EU integration and Hague cooperation. The UNMIK chief was best friends with Haradinaj, and admittedly so. Why doesn't the Hague show more concern about KLA war crimes and less concern blaming Belgrade for their own wrongdoings.

Randal
“… all your (Serbia’s) credibility on this issue is gone…Mladic, Karadzic….”

Talking about credibility, I find it rather strange that so little effort is done to condemn US for the present carnage in Iraq. Actually, practically every single US administration sinds the WWII is responsible for the huge loss of life among the masses of innocent civilians. They should be brought to justice and sentenced as war criminals.

Randal, I really agree with your comments. Serbia should take responsibility for its own problems of not capturing their mass murderers and war criminals. I think they did not meet their requirements, deliberatly.

For Stevan's comment. If we are discussing, Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo, why shift the conversation on Iraq?
Lets talk about Serbian war criminals.
We can talk about iraq and who's to blame in another blog. Lets just see Mladic and Karadžic in Hague, on trial. Maybe they'll set 'em free?

Nerma Jelačić ..... So all these witnesses died by accident. Wake up..They were murdered to protect the puppet placed by western governments. How long is this farce going to last.

Lazer, justice, if exist, is universal, same for all. Selective “justice” is not justice at all. Mass murder of Iraqies should concern us all. They are people as every body else. Western countries don’t have any moral right to judge Serbia when West is responsible for war crimes of much bigger magnitude. Same Western politicians who are committing these crimes at this very moment, are criticizing Serbs? Why are all these Western human rights organizations that are so loud when they criticize countries as Serbia, Russia, China are so silent when it comes to Western crimes? What this silence tell us about their “objectivity” and “independence”?

Stevan, I understand your point, but you can not defend Serbia for not capturing Mladic and Karadzic, and accuse US for the war in Iraq.
The two gentlemen above, ordered murders of tens of thousands of innocent Bosnian Muslims.
Then you have the Kosovo situation. I have many relatives in Kosovo who perished directly by Serbs, be they from Serbia, police or paramilitary formations. In the war in Kosovo, the military was a better part of all the Serb operational forces. We know that.
I think the war in Iraq was just, and regardless of everything you state against US, the killing is inter-ethnical and you also have terrorists who hate US and want us harm here in the USA.
US, has every right to kill the terrorists.
I would say, mixing apples and oranges is not a right thing.
In Russia, there were millions who disappeared in Gulags of Siberia. Not to mention China, they probably have more people killed then Russia, since its hard to distinguish.
Its better if you encourage your countrymen to look West instead of East. From East, you will get a BIG NOTHING.
Time to have leaders in Serbia who speak of re-conciliation, not division. Love and not hate. Progress, nor regress.
History teaches us a lot, but we don’t need to re-live history. We can not dwell on history, how great and strong we were. This is 3rd millennium. I haven’t seen Jesus yet, everyone talks about his coming soon.

This government did not "hide" Mladic and Karadzic. (Brian, 10 April 2008 19:22)
Not at all! In fact the serbian government it was so concerned with capturing Mladic that it was trying to lure him by paying him pension for 4-5 years.
Mladic's pension were withdrawn as far as 2,5 years ago. Here one link from an independent source:
http://www.publicinternationallaw.org/docs/BW2006/Balkan_Watch.3Jan_06.pdf

Here also a link from B92 archives :
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/comments.php?nav_id=32057

I guess is kind of hard for the serbian police to follow a collaborator of an internationaly wanted war criminal fugitive to see where he was going to deliver the money!! I guess you mean that Serbian cops are like Richard Nixon...can't chew a gum and walk at the same time.