B. Muslim commander verdict "disgraceful"

War Crimes Prosecution spokesman Bruno Vekarić has called the sentence in the case of General Rasim Delić “a disgrace”.

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Wednesday, 17.09.2008.

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War Crimes Prosecution spokesman Bruno Vekaric has called the sentence in the case of General Rasim Delic “a disgrace”. Vekaric told Serbian International Radio that the sentence issued to the former Bosnian Muslim commander was unjust, and “made a mockery both of justice and the victims”. B. Muslim commander verdict "disgraceful" “Following the verdicts in the trials of Ramush Haradinaj and Naser Oric, this is the third calamitous case which shows that certain members of the Hague Tribunal Trial Chamber have a completely different perception of justice,” said Vekaric. According to the spokesman, this verdict plays into the hands of certain senior Serbian officials charged with command responsibility for war crimes in Kosovo. “I can no longer see how Milan Milutinovic, Nikola Sainovic et al can be sentenced to lengthy prison terms in the Kosovo indictment, when someone who was a war commander did not a receive a sentence befitting his role and responsibility in those ugly goings-on,” he said. Vekaric bases this firm stand on the fact that legal qualification of the crimes Delic was accused of is very similar to that hanging over the members of the so-called Kosovo Six of former Serbian military and political officials. “The verdict in the Rasim Delic case is very disheartening from the perspective of our broader perception of justice,” said the spokesman, adding that it was hard to escape the impression that, quite simply, there were instances of double standards in certain cases before the Tribunal. He stressed that he drew a clear line between the work of the Hague prosecution and the Hague court and Trial Chamber, reiterating that in this case, in the opinion of a group of special prosecutors in Belgrade, the prosecution had done its job well, had sought a suitable sentence of 15 years, and had presented all this with the pertinent evidence during the course of the trial. Vekaric added that “these situations play into the hands of those who claim that Hague justice is selective,” stressing that in spite of this, Hague cooperation remained Serbia’s international commitment, and that it was in her interests for Ratko Mladic and Goran Hazic to end up in The Hague. “We’re not interested in the Tribunal’s interests and we have to work within these boundaries, especially now that a Tribunal exit strategy has been drafted,” said Vekaric. Bruno Vekaric (FoNet, archive)

B. Muslim commander verdict "disgraceful"

“Following the verdicts in the trials of Ramush Haradinaj and Naser Orić, this is the third calamitous case which shows that certain members of the Hague Tribunal Trial Chamber have a completely different perception of justice,” said Vekarić.

According to the spokesman, this verdict plays into the hands of certain senior Serbian officials charged with command responsibility for war crimes in Kosovo.

“I can no longer see how Milan Milutinović, Nikola Šainović et al can be sentenced to lengthy prison terms in the Kosovo indictment, when someone who was a war commander did not a receive a sentence befitting his role and responsibility in those ugly goings-on,” he said.

Vekarić bases this firm stand on the fact that legal qualification of the crimes Delić was accused of is very similar to that hanging over the members of the so-called Kosovo Six of former Serbian military and political officials.

“The verdict in the Rasim Delić case is very disheartening from the perspective of our broader perception of justice,” said the spokesman, adding that it was hard to escape the impression that, quite simply, there were instances of double standards in certain cases before the Tribunal.

He stressed that he drew a clear line between the work of the Hague prosecution and the Hague court and Trial Chamber, reiterating that in this case, in the opinion of a group of special prosecutors in Belgrade, the prosecution had done its job well, had sought a suitable sentence of 15 years, and had presented all this with the pertinent evidence during the course of the trial.

Vekarić added that “these situations play into the hands of those who claim that Hague justice is selective,” stressing that in spite of this, Hague cooperation remained Serbia’s international commitment, and that it was in her interests for Ratko Mladić and Goran Hažić to end up in The Hague.

“We’re not interested in the Tribunal’s interests and we have to work within these boundaries, especially now that a Tribunal exit strategy has been drafted,” said Vekarić.

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