Tadić: Serbia's reputation "no longer tarnished"

Just more proof that the yellows were engineered into power by outsiders, and are working for outsiders. They are in fact complete traitors, pretending to work for Serbia. How will this benefit Serbia? By kissing the backside of the bankrupt EU and war criminal yanks? Pathetic.

I used to contribute daily to this site but you really are fools. This will not further Serbia in any way. Take it from someone born and brought up in the UK but with Serb blood.

What else is Tadic and his government willing to do to please the EU??? What a disgusting man Tadic is! So the next thing to expect from him is giving up on Kosovo, so that we can join a sinking ship- the EU. Tadic is really not Serbia's president....he's simply an EU puppet being played.

It will take more than this for Serbian reputation to be cleared up!

As a Serb living in Australia, I have been looked upon as a war criminal myself, and the image of all Serbs have been tarnished becausse of a few who committed the worst atrocities against civilians under the purpose of protecting our nation. I agree with President Tadic, with the arrest of Mladic, our honor is somehow restored.

and then we still have the terrible situation with serbia's long-suffering neighbors -- long suffering because of serbian policies. war crimes upon war crimes, and nothing has changed for the victims. no coming forward with the truth from serbia. forced apolgies, absolutely meaningless. with no meat. complete backing of do-dik and his genocide-negating clique. no reparations, yet, for all the croatian, bosnian, and ethnic albanian civilian victims.

(roberto)


You can spew your antiSerb propaganda here like you want but nobody is going to buy it ,believe me!
The Serbs in Bosnia fought a just war,they wanted to prevent a genocide upon the Serbs which the Croats and Bosnian Muslims wanted to committ just like they did in WW2 when they collaborated with Hitler!
(remember how those poor poor Croats held a concentration camp as the only nation beside the Germans and killed hundred thousands of Serbs,remember the Bosnian Muslim SS Handzar division???)
And Mladic forces (God bless them)did succeed in defending Serbs in Bosnia,not so in Croatia which is an genocidal entity founded upon the expulsion of Serbs!
This time the Serbs were not unarmed so your Croatian and Muslim friends could kill our women and children,and we will always be prepared to defend us in the future,count on it!

The bottom point is:

We established our Republika Srpska as a save heaven for Serbs in Bosnia and no hate from you and other Serb hating propagandists is going to change that fact!

It was tarnished when we handed over Sloba instead of trying him ourselves. We could've gotten into the EU most Serbs don't want to be a part of even without Mladic's betrayal,. End our shame: Vote SRS! Free Seselj!

It’s a big personal tragedy for me. I guess even some of the pro-Clinton Serbians also feel at a loss. After all it’s not a matter of just one fate but a matter of a European nation punished for singing out of tune. Russia is another stubborn state which does not accept the Hague anti-Serbian statistics. Hanging all the dogs on one side of all the conflicts won’t make Serbians retreat and raise their hands up. And it won’t make the Balkans safer too.
Russian state TV channels took unexpectedly aggressive pro-Serbian attitude. And it’s a good sing for the new Serbian elites to come to replace the Otpor Fifth Column. No doubt Ratko will show them once again how firm a Serbian can be. Meanwhile Clinton , Kohl , Solana and other real criminals will again remain unpunished. And Serbia’s reputation in NATO community won’t change for better while nothing can now save that of Mr.Tadic.

close a chapter of serbian history? well, as far as I remember, Mr.Mladic was the commander of the BOSNIAN Serbs, so, what has the Republic of Serbia to do with that "bosnian" chapter of history???

Tadic is a strange person, I guess.

I´d really like to know WHERE he was caught, whether it was really serbian territory, or whether he´d been transported to Belgrade, before "releasing" the news...

nevertheless...

that certainly won´t help Tadic in the coming elections.

Tadic, your reputation is tarnished even more! You were never a leader for Serbia, this will be obvious after the next election! You will go down as the biggest traitor in Serbian history! Sram te bilo!!

I wonder what highduke will do now that all his heroes arent heroes but international war criminals on trial.

What will they be told next? To recognise Kosovo?

Tadić: Serbia's reputation "no longer tarnished"

Serbia's reputation will always be tarnished. Tadic speaks as he should be rewarded for the arrest of a war criminal. It was the least you were supposed to do for the victims.Now pay the monetary damages for all those lives destroyed by the serbs and arrest Goran Hadzic.

I wonder what highduke will do now that all his heroes arent heroes but international war criminals on trial.
(Good, 26 May 2011 15:48)

We don`t care about what this cangaroo court or Westerners think...
Ratko Mladic is a hero for all real Serbs!Period!

Let's see how long it takes Brussels to forget its 'promises'. The Serbs never learn.

«Ratko Mladic is a hero for all real Serbs!Period!»

Do you mean «radical» Serbs by «real» Serbs? Il dont think so. Young Serbs as I want to turn the page and start a new page. Dialogue and cooperation pass through reconciliation and not radicalism. Mladic was Milosevic's puppet to creat GREAT SERBIA and they failed. Because of them Serbia is pointed as a criminal state by all nations. Enough of this. Period, as you say.

I have connections to Serbia and spent the early part of this decade in Kosovo too. I hope the arrest closes a chapter for Serbia and opens up so many opportunities for its people. I also think this will focus the spotlight now on Kosovo and its political leaders. During this war there were some awful things done in the name of mankind but this was not restricted to Serbs alone. Many on the Albanian side have lots to answer in this area too. I really hope that ordinary Serbs now get the chance to rejoin the European family of nations which is their birth right.

tadic you poor poor man..

Ratko Mladic is a hero for all real Serbs!Period!
(CG, 26 May 2011 16:20)

If you don't have some more honorable person than Mladic, the slaughterer of the Balkans, to admire as a 'Serbian hero' I can only pity you.

"robert-0
(roberto, 26 May 2011 21:50)"

You need to move on. The world has.

Mr Tadic do you really think people would buy this? Belive me you got much more to do for Serbia to have a better image after all you what happend in the Balkan wars.

Congratulation for arresting Mlladic but you still have way more to do.

He's getting ahead of himself here. Germany's reputation will always be tarnished by the genocide committed by the NAZIs and Serbia's will always be tarnished by the gneocide committed in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the war crimes committed in Croatia and Kosovo and for dragging down the entire former Yugoslav region into war and destruction that has held back the region and its people for over two decades and will continue to undermine progress for years to come.

Serbia has done the right thing by arresting the monster Mladic but it still has a long way to go in normalizing relations with its neighbors and taking responsibility for the crimes that were committed by Serbs and in the name of the Serbian people.

Serbia is not as powerful or important as many radical Serbians would like to think. The arrest of Mladic will only help Serbia in joining the modern world, which we have been left out of since the early 1990s. Allowing one man, Mladic, to hold Serbia back from making progress is selfish. People like Milosevic and Mladic are the reason why Serbia has fallen to where it has. I'm willing to put my pride aside and send these criminals to The Hague in order to better Serbia as a whole.

@ CG
According to you "all real Serbs" see Mladić as a hero. Then all "real Serbs" have a hero that murders unarmed men and children. How can all real Serbs think these actions are heroic? The real Serbs are the one's that own up to their mistakes, not hide away from them.

Serbia's reputation? In the eyes of whom? The very same people that bombed us and hypocritically "favored the rights of republics", and "self determination" each time it was against Serbian interests. Why should we try to appease these people. It is just a group of people, standing up to the EU is not all of the sudden going to worsen our image across Europe. The media in the 1990's already did that.

Our reputation was never at stake in places such as Russia, China, India, Brazil (throughout Latin America), South Africa..these are countries who not only respect the Serbian point of view more than its own government..but are also part of the developing world who are (by fact) be the world's leaders in the next 50 years. The current fading empire we are appeasing is broke and stretching itself too thin, it actually doesn't make sense to latch on now. I agree that Serbia must adapt to globalization.. but what the EU supports is regionalism. Serbia needs to accept the globalization reality on the ground and actually look at countries we only have "traditional friendly relations with". That only means sorry we can't open up to you because Brussels, Washington, Britain and Berlin needs their piece first. The leadership & elite is selling out Serbia and the Serbian people because that was what they were given a lot of money and resources to do.

The majority of countries respect Serbia more than the EU and NATO do. This should not be the only option anymore we live in a post-post Cold War period. The era of North Atlantic dominance is clearly waning and theres no reason to jump on the titanic while its beginning to sink. We must not give anything because they will take everything. The same with the parasite "nations" it has supported since the 90's.

We have always been the most free thinking, independent and anti empire people in the Balkans. This is evident during the Ottoman Empire, Austro Hungarian Empire, Nazi Europe and now the, EUSA. But as usual a few opportunists sell out Serbia's interests to become lackeys. Historically they have been removed from power, forcefully if necessary..the time has come again.

Nema Predaje.

Tadic didn't do this for "Serbia's reputation". He did this for himself and his party. Lets see what happens in the days ahead.

"It will take more than this for Serbian reputation to be cleared up!"
bosnjo

Who gives a crap what you, any muslim, croat or albanian think of us Serbs? We live for our selves and we care about Republika Srpska and Serbia. If we would live to satisfy the thoughts and ideas of our neighbours Serbs would be no more. And we certainly wouldn't enjoy freedom in Republik of Srpska.

now now little brother, remember what the therapist told u last session about putting all of life's problems on one source? ur not taking his advice.

maybe, just maybe, and i know this is hard to grasp, but perhaps the "suffering" of serbia's neighbors, whatever that happens to be since you didn't specify, is more an ongoing problem from political, economic, institutional, and - dare i say - cultural problems of their own? i mean maybe problems in bosnia and kosovo are largely coming form sarajevo or pristina rather than the blgd regime. neither really seems to care about the "suffering" of their citizens, least of all those from 15 years ago. sad isn't it? we should do something about that next time mom and dad take us on vacation.

just a thought lil bro :*

chow,

norberto
fiasco

Here's a prediction ladies. Mladic will be dead within a year. He's clearly very unwell. Neither the west wants to sponsor the ICTY to the continued tune of more millions, nor can they cannot push for an accelerated trial if they do not want to leave themselves open to more proof that it is a kangaroo court. A 'win-win' if you will. That means a much longer trial if the ICTY forces him to stand trial regardless of his medical condition and the time he should be afforded to prepare a defense, as we have seen in the Karadzic trial. He'll most likely die in prison like Milosevic (if he is not sent to the Hague for medical reasons) having been denied proper medical treatment. Now that would be (another) disaster for the ICTY.

"“A difficult period of our history is over and Serbia's reputation is no longer tarnished,” Tadić underscored. "

Not really, now the real discussion starts. Remember: "Mladic is not in Serbia"?? We will now find out exactly, how it was possible for him to avoid apprehension while being Serbia. The fact that he has been found to such a convenient time puts a very suspicious light to this event, as well. I would call this "a very lucky occasion", at best. I would even share the view of nationalistic Serbs that has been overturned only to buy into the EU.

--He's getting ahead of himself here. Germany's reputation will always be tarnished by the genocide committed by the NAZIs and Serbia's will always be tarnished by the gneocide committed in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the war crimes committed in Croatia and Kosovo and for dragging down the entire former Yugoslav region into war and destruction that has held back the region and its people for over two decades and will continue to undermine progress for years to come.

Serbia has done the right thing by arresting the monster Mladic but it still has a long way to go in normalizing relations with its neighbors and taking responsibility for the crimes that were committed by Serbs and in the name of the Serbian people. fred--

I quite agree with you, fred. well put. it was the right thing to do. but how long did it take? and how much outside pressure was required? how long was he harbored, and who exactly harbored him? who knew what?

the truth is, since ole tadic has been in power, mladic could have been grabbed at any point (and long before.) he -- the blgd regime -- were calculating the situation, when to move, when to push it. i think the capture/killing of bin laden didn't help them, when people around the world echoed out words: bin laden gotten, hiding in plain sight: mladic hiding in plain sight, but still protected. the timing is a bit close.

and the eu, despite their utter lack of moral clarity, was about to give a greast big "no" to serbia's eu ascension. i guess you can only string the world along for so long, eh? so, boom, time to move.

there really has to be an investigation about the harboring of this mass-murderer, and it will NEVER come voluntarily fr the blgd regime or the blgd press. never. because it would implicate party people, all the way to the "top." and the press knows who butters their chleba. it has to come from the outside.

and when it is shown that all of these present-day politicians collaborated to keep harboring maldic (their "hero") then they need to be prosecuted. by the hague. brammertz should be forced to actually earn his (generous) income.

and then we still have the terrible situation with serbia's long-suffering neighbors -- long suffering because of serbian policies. war crimes upon war crimes, and nothing has changed for the victims. no coming forward with the truth from serbia. forced apolgies, absolutely meaningless. with no meat. complete backing of do-dik and his genocide-negating clique. no reparations, yet, for all the croatian, bosnian, and ethnic albanian civilian victims.

the belgrade regime needs to change its evil ways with its neighbors -- esp.ly bosnia and kosova. lets get a move!

robert-0

I also think this will focus the spotlight now on Kosovo and its political leaders. During this war there were some awful things done in the name of mankind but this was not restricted to Serbs alone. Many on the Albanian side have lots to answer in this area too. I really hope that ordinary Serbs now get the chance to rejoin the European family of nations which is their birth right.
(twindales, 26 May 2011 16:35)

So how many Serbs do you think the Albanians should kill in order to get at the same level of innocence that the Serbs feel towards Albanians?

Peggy, it seems that you are in the old radical guards of nationalist Serbs . I am not there. I want my nation to move ahead, far from those who are responsible of committing the worst atrocities against civilians. And I have named Mladic and Karadzic, the engineers of the Srebrenica massacre. You can point at others if you want, but it won't help our caause in the world. And I don't want to be looked upon as a criminal because of the deeds of a few. I want Serbia in the EU where we belong.

While Serbia has done a great thing in arresting him, I do not think we can go so far as to say the slate has been wiped clean.

The arrest of Mladic will only help Serbia in joining the modern world, which we have been left out of since the early 1990s. Allowing one man, Mladic, to hold Serbia back from making progress is selfish.
(Petar, 26 May 2011 21:37)
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Please explain how Serbia has been left out of the modern world because of someone like Mladic? Have you been to Serbia recently? Have you travelled the region to compare Serbia to other countries? Sorry, but what you are talking about is a myth and the modern world you mention is one full of debt and financial trouble. Serbia has not been excluded.

what's all this malarkey about reparations? according to modern precedent, it was vietnam that had to pay the usa for reparations before the usa would release the embargo. as the precedent clearly demonstrates it is the "attacked" nation that must pay for the repairs. this has nothing to do with victory, as it was clear to see usa's tail between its legs as it left vietnam. so, as goes that precedent, so goes that iraq will have to pay usa to repair what usa destroyed, as with libya as with serbia. so should then go croatia and bosnia and kosovo. boy oh boy has my beloved usa really set the rules on a kilter.

Ratko Mladic is a hero for all real Serbs!Period!
(CG, 26 May 2011 16:20)

If you don't have some more honorable person than Mladic, the slaughterer of the Balkans, to admire as a 'Serbian hero' I can only pity you.
(Top, 26 May 2011 19:54)
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So Top, what was happening to the Serbs in the surrounding area before Mladic intervened?
Was he supposed to ignore the fact that Oric and his murderous men we going to continue to kill all Serbs in the area and stay back like a coward? You do know that the allowed all the women and children to leave Srebrenica don't you? He turned on the males who fought and killed the Serbs only and if you think that's bad then go ahead but in my book he saved the Serbs of that area from total extinction.

Why do you pity the killers? He clearly allowed the innocent to get out. That much is widely known? Perhaps if the Dutch were more brave and prevented Oric from his evil deeds, Mladic would have no reason to step in.

As a Serb living in Australia, I have been looked upon as a war criminal myself, and the image of all Serbs have been tarnished becausse of a few who committed the worst atrocities against civilians under the purpose of protecting our nation. I agree with President Tadic, with the arrest of Mladic, our honor is somehow restored.
(Boris J, 26 May 2011 15:57)
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You're not the ONLY Serb living in Australia but you sure are in the minority. Who cares what the corrupt media in Australia think of Mladic? Why do you want to fit in with people who truly haven't got a clue about the truth? So just because they are fed bull you need to go along with it do you?

Instead of educating them you are selling out your own people just to fit in. Shame on you.I live in Australia too and I certainly do not share your opinion.

«Why do you want to fit in with people who truly haven't got a clue about the truth?» I suppose that you have the TRUTH!! Did you see this video of Karadzic and Mladic, laughing and overlooking Sarajevo while bombs were falling on innocent people? Did you see yhis video? I can send it to you if you want.

You do know that the allowed all the women and children to leave Srebrenica don't you? He turned on the males who fought and killed the Serbs only (Peggy, 27 May 2011 15:54)

In fact, he allowed the women and children to STAY in Srebrenica, the UN protected zone. He only ordered to deport and kill ALL males (even adolescents older than a certain age, I think 15(or 13?)) - no matter if they fought and killed Serbs or not. If you think that's how a hero acts, I can only pity you and recommend you to watch some Superman movie, sorry.

You're not the ONLY Serb living in Australia but you sure are in the minority. Who cares what the corrupt media in Australia think of Mladic? Why do you want to fit in with people who truly haven't got a clue about the truth? So just because they are fed bull you need to go along with it do you?

Instead of educating them you are selling out your own people just to fit in. Shame on you.I live in Australia too and I certainly do not share your opinion.
(Peggy, 27 May 2011 16:00)

Peggy, please stop. You have no idea of the suffering that Ratko Mladic has inflicted on innocent lives. Why do you defend this man? He has held Serbia back too long. He brought nothing but evil and suffering and did not help the cause of Serbia 1 bit. You are as bad as the Albanians on here who defend the likes of Hash and Haradinaj.

It is time to put tha past behind us all and move on. We have issues ahead of us, the economy, jobs and preservation of Kosovo. Let all of us in Serbia, irrespective of socio-economic background or ethnicity be united.

It was tarnished when we handed over Sloba instead of trying him ourselves. We could've gotten into the EU most Serbs don't want to be a part of even without Mladic's betrayal,. End our shame: Vote SRS! Free Seselj!

It will take more than this for Serbian reputation to be cleared up!

close a chapter of serbian history? well, as far as I remember, Mr.Mladic was the commander of the BOSNIAN Serbs, so, what has the Republic of Serbia to do with that "bosnian" chapter of history???

Tadic is a strange person, I guess.

I´d really like to know WHERE he was caught, whether it was really serbian territory, or whether he´d been transported to Belgrade, before "releasing" the news...

nevertheless...

that certainly won´t help Tadic in the coming elections.

Tadic, your reputation is tarnished even more! You were never a leader for Serbia, this will be obvious after the next election! You will go down as the biggest traitor in Serbian history! Sram te bilo!!

--He's getting ahead of himself here. Germany's reputation will always be tarnished by the genocide committed by the NAZIs and Serbia's will always be tarnished by the gneocide committed in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the war crimes committed in Croatia and Kosovo and for dragging down the entire former Yugoslav region into war and destruction that has held back the region and its people for over two decades and will continue to undermine progress for years to come.

Serbia has done the right thing by arresting the monster Mladic but it still has a long way to go in normalizing relations with its neighbors and taking responsibility for the crimes that were committed by Serbs and in the name of the Serbian people. fred--

I quite agree with you, fred. well put. it was the right thing to do. but how long did it take? and how much outside pressure was required? how long was he harbored, and who exactly harbored him? who knew what?

the truth is, since ole tadic has been in power, mladic could have been grabbed at any point (and long before.) he -- the blgd regime -- were calculating the situation, when to move, when to push it. i think the capture/killing of bin laden didn't help them, when people around the world echoed out words: bin laden gotten, hiding in plain sight: mladic hiding in plain sight, but still protected. the timing is a bit close.

and the eu, despite their utter lack of moral clarity, was about to give a greast big "no" to serbia's eu ascension. i guess you can only string the world along for so long, eh? so, boom, time to move.

there really has to be an investigation about the harboring of this mass-murderer, and it will NEVER come voluntarily fr the blgd regime or the blgd press. never. because it would implicate party people, all the way to the "top." and the press knows who butters their chleba. it has to come from the outside.

and when it is shown that all of these present-day politicians collaborated to keep harboring maldic (their "hero") then they need to be prosecuted. by the hague. brammertz should be forced to actually earn his (generous) income.

and then we still have the terrible situation with serbia's long-suffering neighbors -- long suffering because of serbian policies. war crimes upon war crimes, and nothing has changed for the victims. no coming forward with the truth from serbia. forced apolgies, absolutely meaningless. with no meat. complete backing of do-dik and his genocide-negating clique. no reparations, yet, for all the croatian, bosnian, and ethnic albanian civilian victims.

the belgrade regime needs to change its evil ways with its neighbors -- esp.ly bosnia and kosova. lets get a move!

robert-0

I wonder what highduke will do now that all his heroes arent heroes but international war criminals on trial.
(Good, 26 May 2011 15:48)

We don`t care about what this cangaroo court or Westerners think...
Ratko Mladic is a hero for all real Serbs!Period!

I used to contribute daily to this site but you really are fools. This will not further Serbia in any way. Take it from someone born and brought up in the UK but with Serb blood.

What else is Tadic and his government willing to do to please the EU??? What a disgusting man Tadic is! So the next thing to expect from him is giving up on Kosovo, so that we can join a sinking ship- the EU. Tadic is really not Serbia's president....he's simply an EU puppet being played.

Just more proof that the yellows were engineered into power by outsiders, and are working for outsiders. They are in fact complete traitors, pretending to work for Serbia. How will this benefit Serbia? By kissing the backside of the bankrupt EU and war criminal yanks? Pathetic.

tadic you poor poor man..

Tadić: Serbia's reputation "no longer tarnished"

Serbia's reputation will always be tarnished. Tadic speaks as he should be rewarded for the arrest of a war criminal. It was the least you were supposed to do for the victims.Now pay the monetary damages for all those lives destroyed by the serbs and arrest Goran Hadzic.

As a Serb living in Australia, I have been looked upon as a war criminal myself, and the image of all Serbs have been tarnished becausse of a few who committed the worst atrocities against civilians under the purpose of protecting our nation. I agree with President Tadic, with the arrest of Mladic, our honor is somehow restored.

«Ratko Mladic is a hero for all real Serbs!Period!»

Do you mean «radical» Serbs by «real» Serbs? Il dont think so. Young Serbs as I want to turn the page and start a new page. Dialogue and cooperation pass through reconciliation and not radicalism. Mladic was Milosevic's puppet to creat GREAT SERBIA and they failed. Because of them Serbia is pointed as a criminal state by all nations. Enough of this. Period, as you say.

It’s a big personal tragedy for me. I guess even some of the pro-Clinton Serbians also feel at a loss. After all it’s not a matter of just one fate but a matter of a European nation punished for singing out of tune. Russia is another stubborn state which does not accept the Hague anti-Serbian statistics. Hanging all the dogs on one side of all the conflicts won’t make Serbians retreat and raise their hands up. And it won’t make the Balkans safer too.
Russian state TV channels took unexpectedly aggressive pro-Serbian attitude. And it’s a good sing for the new Serbian elites to come to replace the Otpor Fifth Column. No doubt Ratko will show them once again how firm a Serbian can be. Meanwhile Clinton , Kohl , Solana and other real criminals will again remain unpunished. And Serbia’s reputation in NATO community won’t change for better while nothing can now save that of Mr.Tadic.

He's getting ahead of himself here. Germany's reputation will always be tarnished by the genocide committed by the NAZIs and Serbia's will always be tarnished by the gneocide committed in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the war crimes committed in Croatia and Kosovo and for dragging down the entire former Yugoslav region into war and destruction that has held back the region and its people for over two decades and will continue to undermine progress for years to come.

Serbia has done the right thing by arresting the monster Mladic but it still has a long way to go in normalizing relations with its neighbors and taking responsibility for the crimes that were committed by Serbs and in the name of the Serbian people.

Mr Tadic do you really think people would buy this? Belive me you got much more to do for Serbia to have a better image after all you what happend in the Balkan wars.

Congratulation for arresting Mlladic but you still have way more to do.

Serbia is not as powerful or important as many radical Serbians would like to think. The arrest of Mladic will only help Serbia in joining the modern world, which we have been left out of since the early 1990s. Allowing one man, Mladic, to hold Serbia back from making progress is selfish. People like Milosevic and Mladic are the reason why Serbia has fallen to where it has. I'm willing to put my pride aside and send these criminals to The Hague in order to better Serbia as a whole.

As a Serb living in Australia, I have been looked upon as a war criminal myself, and the image of all Serbs have been tarnished becausse of a few who committed the worst atrocities against civilians under the purpose of protecting our nation. I agree with President Tadic, with the arrest of Mladic, our honor is somehow restored.
(Boris J, 26 May 2011 15:57)
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You're not the ONLY Serb living in Australia but you sure are in the minority. Who cares what the corrupt media in Australia think of Mladic? Why do you want to fit in with people who truly haven't got a clue about the truth? So just because they are fed bull you need to go along with it do you?

Instead of educating them you are selling out your own people just to fit in. Shame on you.I live in Australia too and I certainly do not share your opinion.

I have connections to Serbia and spent the early part of this decade in Kosovo too. I hope the arrest closes a chapter for Serbia and opens up so many opportunities for its people. I also think this will focus the spotlight now on Kosovo and its political leaders. During this war there were some awful things done in the name of mankind but this was not restricted to Serbs alone. Many on the Albanian side have lots to answer in this area too. I really hope that ordinary Serbs now get the chance to rejoin the European family of nations which is their birth right.

I wonder what highduke will do now that all his heroes arent heroes but international war criminals on trial.

@ CG
According to you "all real Serbs" see Mladić as a hero. Then all "real Serbs" have a hero that murders unarmed men and children. How can all real Serbs think these actions are heroic? The real Serbs are the one's that own up to their mistakes, not hide away from them.

Serbia's reputation? In the eyes of whom? The very same people that bombed us and hypocritically "favored the rights of republics", and "self determination" each time it was against Serbian interests. Why should we try to appease these people. It is just a group of people, standing up to the EU is not all of the sudden going to worsen our image across Europe. The media in the 1990's already did that.

Our reputation was never at stake in places such as Russia, China, India, Brazil (throughout Latin America), South Africa..these are countries who not only respect the Serbian point of view more than its own government..but are also part of the developing world who are (by fact) be the world's leaders in the next 50 years. The current fading empire we are appeasing is broke and stretching itself too thin, it actually doesn't make sense to latch on now. I agree that Serbia must adapt to globalization.. but what the EU supports is regionalism. Serbia needs to accept the globalization reality on the ground and actually look at countries we only have "traditional friendly relations with". That only means sorry we can't open up to you because Brussels, Washington, Britain and Berlin needs their piece first. The leadership & elite is selling out Serbia and the Serbian people because that was what they were given a lot of money and resources to do.

The majority of countries respect Serbia more than the EU and NATO do. This should not be the only option anymore we live in a post-post Cold War period. The era of North Atlantic dominance is clearly waning and theres no reason to jump on the titanic while its beginning to sink. We must not give anything because they will take everything. The same with the parasite "nations" it has supported since the 90's.

We have always been the most free thinking, independent and anti empire people in the Balkans. This is evident during the Ottoman Empire, Austro Hungarian Empire, Nazi Europe and now the, EUSA. But as usual a few opportunists sell out Serbia's interests to become lackeys. Historically they have been removed from power, forcefully if necessary..the time has come again.

Nema Predaje.

and then we still have the terrible situation with serbia's long-suffering neighbors -- long suffering because of serbian policies. war crimes upon war crimes, and nothing has changed for the victims. no coming forward with the truth from serbia. forced apolgies, absolutely meaningless. with no meat. complete backing of do-dik and his genocide-negating clique. no reparations, yet, for all the croatian, bosnian, and ethnic albanian civilian victims.

(roberto)


You can spew your antiSerb propaganda here like you want but nobody is going to buy it ,believe me!
The Serbs in Bosnia fought a just war,they wanted to prevent a genocide upon the Serbs which the Croats and Bosnian Muslims wanted to committ just like they did in WW2 when they collaborated with Hitler!
(remember how those poor poor Croats held a concentration camp as the only nation beside the Germans and killed hundred thousands of Serbs,remember the Bosnian Muslim SS Handzar division???)
And Mladic forces (God bless them)did succeed in defending Serbs in Bosnia,not so in Croatia which is an genocidal entity founded upon the expulsion of Serbs!
This time the Serbs were not unarmed so your Croatian and Muslim friends could kill our women and children,and we will always be prepared to defend us in the future,count on it!

The bottom point is:

We established our Republika Srpska as a save heaven for Serbs in Bosnia and no hate from you and other Serb hating propagandists is going to change that fact!

Ratko Mladic is a hero for all real Serbs!Period!
(CG, 26 May 2011 16:20)

If you don't have some more honorable person than Mladic, the slaughterer of the Balkans, to admire as a 'Serbian hero' I can only pity you.

While Serbia has done a great thing in arresting him, I do not think we can go so far as to say the slate has been wiped clean.

I also think this will focus the spotlight now on Kosovo and its political leaders. During this war there were some awful things done in the name of mankind but this was not restricted to Serbs alone. Many on the Albanian side have lots to answer in this area too. I really hope that ordinary Serbs now get the chance to rejoin the European family of nations which is their birth right.
(twindales, 26 May 2011 16:35)

So how many Serbs do you think the Albanians should kill in order to get at the same level of innocence that the Serbs feel towards Albanians?

"It will take more than this for Serbian reputation to be cleared up!"
bosnjo

Who gives a crap what you, any muslim, croat or albanian think of us Serbs? We live for our selves and we care about Republika Srpska and Serbia. If we would live to satisfy the thoughts and ideas of our neighbours Serbs would be no more. And we certainly wouldn't enjoy freedom in Republik of Srpska.

"“A difficult period of our history is over and Serbia's reputation is no longer tarnished,” Tadić underscored. "

Not really, now the real discussion starts. Remember: "Mladic is not in Serbia"?? We will now find out exactly, how it was possible for him to avoid apprehension while being Serbia. The fact that he has been found to such a convenient time puts a very suspicious light to this event, as well. I would call this "a very lucky occasion", at best. I would even share the view of nationalistic Serbs that has been overturned only to buy into the EU.

The arrest of Mladic will only help Serbia in joining the modern world, which we have been left out of since the early 1990s. Allowing one man, Mladic, to hold Serbia back from making progress is selfish.
(Petar, 26 May 2011 21:37)
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Please explain how Serbia has been left out of the modern world because of someone like Mladic? Have you been to Serbia recently? Have you travelled the region to compare Serbia to other countries? Sorry, but what you are talking about is a myth and the modern world you mention is one full of debt and financial trouble. Serbia has not been excluded.

"robert-0
(roberto, 26 May 2011 21:50)"

You need to move on. The world has.

Here's a prediction ladies. Mladic will be dead within a year. He's clearly very unwell. Neither the west wants to sponsor the ICTY to the continued tune of more millions, nor can they cannot push for an accelerated trial if they do not want to leave themselves open to more proof that it is a kangaroo court. A 'win-win' if you will. That means a much longer trial if the ICTY forces him to stand trial regardless of his medical condition and the time he should be afforded to prepare a defense, as we have seen in the Karadzic trial. He'll most likely die in prison like Milosevic (if he is not sent to the Hague for medical reasons) having been denied proper medical treatment. Now that would be (another) disaster for the ICTY.

What will they be told next? To recognise Kosovo?

what's all this malarkey about reparations? according to modern precedent, it was vietnam that had to pay the usa for reparations before the usa would release the embargo. as the precedent clearly demonstrates it is the "attacked" nation that must pay for the repairs. this has nothing to do with victory, as it was clear to see usa's tail between its legs as it left vietnam. so, as goes that precedent, so goes that iraq will have to pay usa to repair what usa destroyed, as with libya as with serbia. so should then go croatia and bosnia and kosovo. boy oh boy has my beloved usa really set the rules on a kilter.

Ratko Mladic is a hero for all real Serbs!Period!
(CG, 26 May 2011 16:20)

If you don't have some more honorable person than Mladic, the slaughterer of the Balkans, to admire as a 'Serbian hero' I can only pity you.
(Top, 26 May 2011 19:54)
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So Top, what was happening to the Serbs in the surrounding area before Mladic intervened?
Was he supposed to ignore the fact that Oric and his murderous men we going to continue to kill all Serbs in the area and stay back like a coward? You do know that the allowed all the women and children to leave Srebrenica don't you? He turned on the males who fought and killed the Serbs only and if you think that's bad then go ahead but in my book he saved the Serbs of that area from total extinction.

Why do you pity the killers? He clearly allowed the innocent to get out. That much is widely known? Perhaps if the Dutch were more brave and prevented Oric from his evil deeds, Mladic would have no reason to step in.

Let's see how long it takes Brussels to forget its 'promises'. The Serbs never learn.

Peggy, it seems that you are in the old radical guards of nationalist Serbs . I am not there. I want my nation to move ahead, far from those who are responsible of committing the worst atrocities against civilians. And I have named Mladic and Karadzic, the engineers of the Srebrenica massacre. You can point at others if you want, but it won't help our caause in the world. And I don't want to be looked upon as a criminal because of the deeds of a few. I want Serbia in the EU where we belong.

Tadic didn't do this for "Serbia's reputation". He did this for himself and his party. Lets see what happens in the days ahead.

now now little brother, remember what the therapist told u last session about putting all of life's problems on one source? ur not taking his advice.

maybe, just maybe, and i know this is hard to grasp, but perhaps the "suffering" of serbia's neighbors, whatever that happens to be since you didn't specify, is more an ongoing problem from political, economic, institutional, and - dare i say - cultural problems of their own? i mean maybe problems in bosnia and kosovo are largely coming form sarajevo or pristina rather than the blgd regime. neither really seems to care about the "suffering" of their citizens, least of all those from 15 years ago. sad isn't it? we should do something about that next time mom and dad take us on vacation.

just a thought lil bro :*

chow,

norberto
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You do know that the allowed all the women and children to leave Srebrenica don't you? He turned on the males who fought and killed the Serbs only (Peggy, 27 May 2011 15:54)

In fact, he allowed the women and children to STAY in Srebrenica, the UN protected zone. He only ordered to deport and kill ALL males (even adolescents older than a certain age, I think 15(or 13?)) - no matter if they fought and killed Serbs or not. If you think that's how a hero acts, I can only pity you and recommend you to watch some Superman movie, sorry.

You're not the ONLY Serb living in Australia but you sure are in the minority. Who cares what the corrupt media in Australia think of Mladic? Why do you want to fit in with people who truly haven't got a clue about the truth? So just because they are fed bull you need to go along with it do you?

Instead of educating them you are selling out your own people just to fit in. Shame on you.I live in Australia too and I certainly do not share your opinion.
(Peggy, 27 May 2011 16:00)

Peggy, please stop. You have no idea of the suffering that Ratko Mladic has inflicted on innocent lives. Why do you defend this man? He has held Serbia back too long. He brought nothing but evil and suffering and did not help the cause of Serbia 1 bit. You are as bad as the Albanians on here who defend the likes of Hash and Haradinaj.

It is time to put tha past behind us all and move on. We have issues ahead of us, the economy, jobs and preservation of Kosovo. Let all of us in Serbia, irrespective of socio-economic background or ethnicity be united.

«Why do you want to fit in with people who truly haven't got a clue about the truth?» I suppose that you have the TRUTH!! Did you see this video of Karadzic and Mladic, laughing and overlooking Sarajevo while bombs were falling on innocent people? Did you see yhis video? I can send it to you if you want.