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Tuesday, 09.02.2016.

11:01

Gen. Zdravko Tolimir dies in Hague Tribunal jail

Former Army of the Serb Republic (VRS) in Bosnia-Herzegovina Gen. Zdravko Tolimir passed away in the night between Monday and Tuesday.

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Genti

pre 8 godina

Serbian secret services killing more of their own to avoid public embarrassment and more incriminations of some of the governing caste. You can all kill one another like rats, but the truth will eventually come out and the guilty ones will be prosecuted.

sasa.p

pre 8 godina

Djakovo is full of war criminals right now Marku haven't you noticed? They evicted the majority of decent citizens during and after the illegal NATO onslaught. Whilst people like your good-self remain there they won't be returning anytime soon.No-one wants neighbours who have murder on their minds,do they? Incidentally should the Donkey ride into your wasteland my money's on him "One-on-One" to kick your sorry racist ass!!
(Marku my words, 11 February 2016 01:31)

You are wrong Marku my word's.
Gijon Marku doesn't live there,but in Australia! All Shqiptars commenting on this site,don't live and suffer in NATO Paradise KiM(Pristina), but live abroad/ overseas.

Marku my words

pre 8 godina

Djakovo is full of war criminals right now Marku haven't you noticed? They evicted the majority of decent citizens during and after the illegal NATO onslaught. Whilst people like your good-self remain there they won't be returning anytime soon.No-one wants neighbours who have murder on their minds,do they? Incidentally should the Donkey ride into your wasteland my money's on him "One-on-One" to kick your sorry racist ass!!

icj1

pre 8 godina

The Hague knows that the Serbs are innocent
(Nikola Novakovic, 9 February 2016 16:20)

The Hague has not said that, so you are lying!

First of all, Hague does not deal with ethnic groups, whether Serbs or others. Hague deals with individuals of any ethnicity or citizenship who are accused by the ICTY prosecutor to have commited serious violations of the international humanitarian law in the territory of former Yugoslavia from 1991 onward.

Hague has found some (but not all) of the accused individuals of Serb ethnicity innocent.

Patriarch Irinej

pre 8 godina

I propose we hold a lottery to see which Serb war criminal at the Hague will die next. Please mail all predictions, with 100 dinars, to me at Pec. I will announce the winner in the church bulletin. I will keep half of the proceeds and the winner will receive the other half. God bless you.

Gjon Marku

pre 8 godina

Robert Baer, a former senior CIA officer was interviewed and asked about Srebrenica...
(sj, 10 February 2016 10:55)

Thanks for never providing a source to back up your statements. It really helps your credibilty.

sj

pre 8 godina

Robert Baer, a former senior CIA officer was interviewed and asked about Srebrenica. His response was “Srebrenica is an exaggerated story and many people have been manipulated by it. Baer went on to further state that “the numbers of people killed in Srebrenica were part of a political marketing campaign”.
Baer is neither a Serb, nor is he someone born in the US of Serbian background nor is he a friend of Serbs. Having said that who or what is investigating the 19 people employed by Doctors without Borders that were killed by the US military in early October 2015 in the hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan?
How many US Generals, Colonels, Majors are going to be held accountable for murdering those 19 people?
Hello Amnesty International, hello Human Rights Watch. Is there any human rights group out there that is interested at all out there? Anyone at all????? So much for our human rights brethren.

Joni

pre 8 godina

@ Mlladic Ratko

Are you writing these comments from the Hague or from Siberia?

Don’t worry there is a special punishment for "war criminals" such as yourself. :)

Bob

pre 8 godina

I love it some more.

The point of the Hague was to upset those who supported the murders done in the war.

It works!!! Good oh!!!

You can tell they are upset by their posts and their anti-voting.

The Hague has certainly wound them up something proper !!!

Maybe one day the thought might get through their thick sculls, that the ethnic cleansing and the murders were not a nice thing.

Mind you, those sculls are often pretty thick.

Please vote against this if you are thick.

Navi

pre 8 godina

This should have been executed by burning him alive at his verdict.
(Naim, 9 February 2016 22:40)

Sorry, the Hague works differently from what you Albanian ISIS terrorists do.

Darko

pre 8 godina

I agree with you Nikola - civilized cultures have always upheld the notion of innocent until proven guilty. So it's alarming that a pattern of deaths in custody during the trial process becomes this apparent (10 is alarmingly high). Any civilized culture would address this, so an enquiry must surely follow.

Gjon Marku

pre 8 godina

Ratko, Donkey

Jihadi? FAIL! I`m a roman catholic from the beautiest of all cities. Gjakova.

Dont worry Donkey (did I ever tell you how fitting your name is for you? No? Well, now you know), if Warcriminals ever set foot in Gjakova again, we wont be throwing stones.

Bob

pre 8 godina

I love it.

Those who voted against my earlier posts are self-admitted dishonourable dirty bigots.

They have no view about what constitutes decency in the eyes of others.

These are the idiots who (along with Milosevic) failed to understand that their selfish narrow parochial view invited inevitable intervention from the international community. Diplomatic incompetence.

They better run for their corrupt friend Putin - we don't want them.

However, while they may get some sympathetic muttering from some in Serbia, I don't think they are representative of the decent people I know (apart from one uncle we take the p..s out of because he still thinks Milosevic was ok).

Naim

pre 8 godina

What a sentence life in prison?? This should have been executed by burning him alive at his verdict.

This world could not get justice for your victims let's hope the other world will and you, your loved once will be burned to hell all the time.

Donkey Hoxha

pre 8 godina

All of 'em!! Every single one of them! Everyone, prosecuted now and in the future.
(Gjon Marku, 9 February 2016 18:08)

LOL I'm pretty certain you didn't know who this guy was until his death was reported. For such an allegedly calm and morally superior person, that's quite the blood lust you're harboring. Make sure that anger isn't taken out on an innocent pensioner you mistake for a war criminal.

Ratko

pre 8 godina

@ jihadi gjon

Are you writing these comments from the isis caliphate or from turkey?

Dont worry there is a special punishment for jihadis such as yourself

Gjon Marku

pre 8 godina

How many more Serbs must die in The Hague...

Last number which was mentioned was 9 Serbs have died in The Hague... Now it is 10
(Nikola Novakovic, 9 February 2016 16:20)

This is a sensitive question because you say "how many serbs" not "how many serb warcriminals".

To answer your question on how many more: All of 'em!! Every single one of them! Everyone, prosecuted now and in the future.

I have to admit, it does feel like justice, knowing they died alone in a prison cell. In moments like this I believe in god. An angry punishing god.

resident of Fredericton,New Brunswick,Canada

pre 8 godina

Only God can decide his fate and if God decides to punish him than there would be a reason why God may decide to do so.

Pope F

pre 8 godina

Amazing, serbs want justice for their war criminals bot not for the innocent civilians they killed, there are still many on the run, they must be caught

Nikola Novakovic

pre 8 godina

How many more Serbs must die in The Hague...

Last number which was mentioned was 9 Serbs have died in The Hague... Now it is 10....

The powers at be are poisoning them... This is not justice, this is murder, and we are supposed to believe the death penalty does not exist in Europe, that Europe is civilised... What a load of BS... Europe is killing innocent Serb civilians, they have not been found guilty, they have been found dead in their jail cells... They are innocent until proven guilty...

The Hague knows that the Serbs are innocent and that is they are released and win the court battle, that it is The Hague who will have to pay... They will have to compensate the suspect for holding them for so long... So The Hague would lose money and a suspect if they did not kill Serbs suspected of war crimes...

But now The Hague must be judged for conspiracy to commit murder against suspected Serbian war criminals. Obviously something is going on when 10 serbian suspects have already died while at The Hague... There must be an independent investigation conducted by Russia and Serbia into the deaths of suspected Serb war criminals at The Hague and criminal proceedings must be undertaken to bring justice to the victims of The Hague tribunal...

Bob

pre 8 godina

It is sad that what should be honourable patriotism turns into sick nationalism.

He could have done good for Serbs, but by becoming a murderer he dishonoured them.

The defending of a nation can legitimately be done using active warfare. However, killing should only be done in the battle; not as an evil and dishonourable act against the undefended.

Those who murder are dirt.

If you think that those murders were ok, you are dirt too.

There is no difference between what the nazis did and what was done in Srebrenica.

Let's choose decency above bigotry.

Peter the rocky

pre 8 godina

May his soul be confined to the pits of hell and to a hopefully endless pain of its fiery inferno!!! The Maggot got what he deserved! Now its time for Mladic, Karazdic & Seselj to share the se fate!!!

Bob

pre 8 godina

It is sad that what should be honourable patriotism turns into sick nationalism.

He could have done good for Serbs, but by becoming a murderer he dishonoured them.

The defending of a nation can legitimately be done using active warfare. However, killing should only be done in the battle; not as an evil and dishonourable act against the undefended.

Those who murder are dirt.

If you think that those murders were ok, you are dirt too.

There is no difference between what the nazis did and what was done in Srebrenica.

Let's choose decency above bigotry.

Peter the rocky

pre 8 godina

May his soul be confined to the pits of hell and to a hopefully endless pain of its fiery inferno!!! The Maggot got what he deserved! Now its time for Mladic, Karazdic & Seselj to share the se fate!!!

Gjon Marku

pre 8 godina

How many more Serbs must die in The Hague...

Last number which was mentioned was 9 Serbs have died in The Hague... Now it is 10
(Nikola Novakovic, 9 February 2016 16:20)

This is a sensitive question because you say "how many serbs" not "how many serb warcriminals".

To answer your question on how many more: All of 'em!! Every single one of them! Everyone, prosecuted now and in the future.

I have to admit, it does feel like justice, knowing they died alone in a prison cell. In moments like this I believe in god. An angry punishing god.

Nikola Novakovic

pre 8 godina

How many more Serbs must die in The Hague...

Last number which was mentioned was 9 Serbs have died in The Hague... Now it is 10....

The powers at be are poisoning them... This is not justice, this is murder, and we are supposed to believe the death penalty does not exist in Europe, that Europe is civilised... What a load of BS... Europe is killing innocent Serb civilians, they have not been found guilty, they have been found dead in their jail cells... They are innocent until proven guilty...

The Hague knows that the Serbs are innocent and that is they are released and win the court battle, that it is The Hague who will have to pay... They will have to compensate the suspect for holding them for so long... So The Hague would lose money and a suspect if they did not kill Serbs suspected of war crimes...

But now The Hague must be judged for conspiracy to commit murder against suspected Serbian war criminals. Obviously something is going on when 10 serbian suspects have already died while at The Hague... There must be an independent investigation conducted by Russia and Serbia into the deaths of suspected Serb war criminals at The Hague and criminal proceedings must be undertaken to bring justice to the victims of The Hague tribunal...

Pope F

pre 8 godina

Amazing, serbs want justice for their war criminals bot not for the innocent civilians they killed, there are still many on the run, they must be caught

Ratko

pre 8 godina

@ jihadi gjon

Are you writing these comments from the isis caliphate or from turkey?

Dont worry there is a special punishment for jihadis such as yourself

Donkey Hoxha

pre 8 godina

All of 'em!! Every single one of them! Everyone, prosecuted now and in the future.
(Gjon Marku, 9 February 2016 18:08)

LOL I'm pretty certain you didn't know who this guy was until his death was reported. For such an allegedly calm and morally superior person, that's quite the blood lust you're harboring. Make sure that anger isn't taken out on an innocent pensioner you mistake for a war criminal.

Bob

pre 8 godina

I love it.

Those who voted against my earlier posts are self-admitted dishonourable dirty bigots.

They have no view about what constitutes decency in the eyes of others.

These are the idiots who (along with Milosevic) failed to understand that their selfish narrow parochial view invited inevitable intervention from the international community. Diplomatic incompetence.

They better run for their corrupt friend Putin - we don't want them.

However, while they may get some sympathetic muttering from some in Serbia, I don't think they are representative of the decent people I know (apart from one uncle we take the p..s out of because he still thinks Milosevic was ok).

Joni

pre 8 godina

@ Mlladic Ratko

Are you writing these comments from the Hague or from Siberia?

Don’t worry there is a special punishment for "war criminals" such as yourself. :)

resident of Fredericton,New Brunswick,Canada

pre 8 godina

Only God can decide his fate and if God decides to punish him than there would be a reason why God may decide to do so.

Gjon Marku

pre 8 godina

Ratko, Donkey

Jihadi? FAIL! I`m a roman catholic from the beautiest of all cities. Gjakova.

Dont worry Donkey (did I ever tell you how fitting your name is for you? No? Well, now you know), if Warcriminals ever set foot in Gjakova again, we wont be throwing stones.

Naim

pre 8 godina

What a sentence life in prison?? This should have been executed by burning him alive at his verdict.

This world could not get justice for your victims let's hope the other world will and you, your loved once will be burned to hell all the time.

Bob

pre 8 godina

I love it some more.

The point of the Hague was to upset those who supported the murders done in the war.

It works!!! Good oh!!!

You can tell they are upset by their posts and their anti-voting.

The Hague has certainly wound them up something proper !!!

Maybe one day the thought might get through their thick sculls, that the ethnic cleansing and the murders were not a nice thing.

Mind you, those sculls are often pretty thick.

Please vote against this if you are thick.

Navi

pre 8 godina

This should have been executed by burning him alive at his verdict.
(Naim, 9 February 2016 22:40)

Sorry, the Hague works differently from what you Albanian ISIS terrorists do.

sj

pre 8 godina

Robert Baer, a former senior CIA officer was interviewed and asked about Srebrenica. His response was “Srebrenica is an exaggerated story and many people have been manipulated by it. Baer went on to further state that “the numbers of people killed in Srebrenica were part of a political marketing campaign”.
Baer is neither a Serb, nor is he someone born in the US of Serbian background nor is he a friend of Serbs. Having said that who or what is investigating the 19 people employed by Doctors without Borders that were killed by the US military in early October 2015 in the hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan?
How many US Generals, Colonels, Majors are going to be held accountable for murdering those 19 people?
Hello Amnesty International, hello Human Rights Watch. Is there any human rights group out there that is interested at all out there? Anyone at all????? So much for our human rights brethren.

Darko

pre 8 godina

I agree with you Nikola - civilized cultures have always upheld the notion of innocent until proven guilty. So it's alarming that a pattern of deaths in custody during the trial process becomes this apparent (10 is alarmingly high). Any civilized culture would address this, so an enquiry must surely follow.

Gjon Marku

pre 8 godina

Robert Baer, a former senior CIA officer was interviewed and asked about Srebrenica...
(sj, 10 February 2016 10:55)

Thanks for never providing a source to back up your statements. It really helps your credibilty.

icj1

pre 8 godina

The Hague knows that the Serbs are innocent
(Nikola Novakovic, 9 February 2016 16:20)

The Hague has not said that, so you are lying!

First of all, Hague does not deal with ethnic groups, whether Serbs or others. Hague deals with individuals of any ethnicity or citizenship who are accused by the ICTY prosecutor to have commited serious violations of the international humanitarian law in the territory of former Yugoslavia from 1991 onward.

Hague has found some (but not all) of the accused individuals of Serb ethnicity innocent.

Patriarch Irinej

pre 8 godina

I propose we hold a lottery to see which Serb war criminal at the Hague will die next. Please mail all predictions, with 100 dinars, to me at Pec. I will announce the winner in the church bulletin. I will keep half of the proceeds and the winner will receive the other half. God bless you.

Genti

pre 8 godina

Serbian secret services killing more of their own to avoid public embarrassment and more incriminations of some of the governing caste. You can all kill one another like rats, but the truth will eventually come out and the guilty ones will be prosecuted.

Marku my words

pre 8 godina

Djakovo is full of war criminals right now Marku haven't you noticed? They evicted the majority of decent citizens during and after the illegal NATO onslaught. Whilst people like your good-self remain there they won't be returning anytime soon.No-one wants neighbours who have murder on their minds,do they? Incidentally should the Donkey ride into your wasteland my money's on him "One-on-One" to kick your sorry racist ass!!

sasa.p

pre 8 godina

Djakovo is full of war criminals right now Marku haven't you noticed? They evicted the majority of decent citizens during and after the illegal NATO onslaught. Whilst people like your good-self remain there they won't be returning anytime soon.No-one wants neighbours who have murder on their minds,do they? Incidentally should the Donkey ride into your wasteland my money's on him "One-on-One" to kick your sorry racist ass!!
(Marku my words, 11 February 2016 01:31)

You are wrong Marku my word's.
Gijon Marku doesn't live there,but in Australia! All Shqiptars commenting on this site,don't live and suffer in NATO Paradise KiM(Pristina), but live abroad/ overseas.

Peter the rocky

pre 8 godina

May his soul be confined to the pits of hell and to a hopefully endless pain of its fiery inferno!!! The Maggot got what he deserved! Now its time for Mladic, Karazdic & Seselj to share the se fate!!!

Nikola Novakovic

pre 8 godina

How many more Serbs must die in The Hague...

Last number which was mentioned was 9 Serbs have died in The Hague... Now it is 10....

The powers at be are poisoning them... This is not justice, this is murder, and we are supposed to believe the death penalty does not exist in Europe, that Europe is civilised... What a load of BS... Europe is killing innocent Serb civilians, they have not been found guilty, they have been found dead in their jail cells... They are innocent until proven guilty...

The Hague knows that the Serbs are innocent and that is they are released and win the court battle, that it is The Hague who will have to pay... They will have to compensate the suspect for holding them for so long... So The Hague would lose money and a suspect if they did not kill Serbs suspected of war crimes...

But now The Hague must be judged for conspiracy to commit murder against suspected Serbian war criminals. Obviously something is going on when 10 serbian suspects have already died while at The Hague... There must be an independent investigation conducted by Russia and Serbia into the deaths of suspected Serb war criminals at The Hague and criminal proceedings must be undertaken to bring justice to the victims of The Hague tribunal...

Pope F

pre 8 godina

Amazing, serbs want justice for their war criminals bot not for the innocent civilians they killed, there are still many on the run, they must be caught

Bob

pre 8 godina

It is sad that what should be honourable patriotism turns into sick nationalism.

He could have done good for Serbs, but by becoming a murderer he dishonoured them.

The defending of a nation can legitimately be done using active warfare. However, killing should only be done in the battle; not as an evil and dishonourable act against the undefended.

Those who murder are dirt.

If you think that those murders were ok, you are dirt too.

There is no difference between what the nazis did and what was done in Srebrenica.

Let's choose decency above bigotry.

Gjon Marku

pre 8 godina

How many more Serbs must die in The Hague...

Last number which was mentioned was 9 Serbs have died in The Hague... Now it is 10
(Nikola Novakovic, 9 February 2016 16:20)

This is a sensitive question because you say "how many serbs" not "how many serb warcriminals".

To answer your question on how many more: All of 'em!! Every single one of them! Everyone, prosecuted now and in the future.

I have to admit, it does feel like justice, knowing they died alone in a prison cell. In moments like this I believe in god. An angry punishing god.

Naim

pre 8 godina

What a sentence life in prison?? This should have been executed by burning him alive at his verdict.

This world could not get justice for your victims let's hope the other world will and you, your loved once will be burned to hell all the time.

Bob

pre 8 godina

I love it.

Those who voted against my earlier posts are self-admitted dishonourable dirty bigots.

They have no view about what constitutes decency in the eyes of others.

These are the idiots who (along with Milosevic) failed to understand that their selfish narrow parochial view invited inevitable intervention from the international community. Diplomatic incompetence.

They better run for their corrupt friend Putin - we don't want them.

However, while they may get some sympathetic muttering from some in Serbia, I don't think they are representative of the decent people I know (apart from one uncle we take the p..s out of because he still thinks Milosevic was ok).

Navi

pre 8 godina

This should have been executed by burning him alive at his verdict.
(Naim, 9 February 2016 22:40)

Sorry, the Hague works differently from what you Albanian ISIS terrorists do.

Ratko

pre 8 godina

@ jihadi gjon

Are you writing these comments from the isis caliphate or from turkey?

Dont worry there is a special punishment for jihadis such as yourself

Donkey Hoxha

pre 8 godina

All of 'em!! Every single one of them! Everyone, prosecuted now and in the future.
(Gjon Marku, 9 February 2016 18:08)

LOL I'm pretty certain you didn't know who this guy was until his death was reported. For such an allegedly calm and morally superior person, that's quite the blood lust you're harboring. Make sure that anger isn't taken out on an innocent pensioner you mistake for a war criminal.

sj

pre 8 godina

Robert Baer, a former senior CIA officer was interviewed and asked about Srebrenica. His response was “Srebrenica is an exaggerated story and many people have been manipulated by it. Baer went on to further state that “the numbers of people killed in Srebrenica were part of a political marketing campaign”.
Baer is neither a Serb, nor is he someone born in the US of Serbian background nor is he a friend of Serbs. Having said that who or what is investigating the 19 people employed by Doctors without Borders that were killed by the US military in early October 2015 in the hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan?
How many US Generals, Colonels, Majors are going to be held accountable for murdering those 19 people?
Hello Amnesty International, hello Human Rights Watch. Is there any human rights group out there that is interested at all out there? Anyone at all????? So much for our human rights brethren.

Gjon Marku

pre 8 godina

Ratko, Donkey

Jihadi? FAIL! I`m a roman catholic from the beautiest of all cities. Gjakova.

Dont worry Donkey (did I ever tell you how fitting your name is for you? No? Well, now you know), if Warcriminals ever set foot in Gjakova again, we wont be throwing stones.

resident of Fredericton,New Brunswick,Canada

pre 8 godina

Only God can decide his fate and if God decides to punish him than there would be a reason why God may decide to do so.

Patriarch Irinej

pre 8 godina

I propose we hold a lottery to see which Serb war criminal at the Hague will die next. Please mail all predictions, with 100 dinars, to me at Pec. I will announce the winner in the church bulletin. I will keep half of the proceeds and the winner will receive the other half. God bless you.

Marku my words

pre 8 godina

Djakovo is full of war criminals right now Marku haven't you noticed? They evicted the majority of decent citizens during and after the illegal NATO onslaught. Whilst people like your good-self remain there they won't be returning anytime soon.No-one wants neighbours who have murder on their minds,do they? Incidentally should the Donkey ride into your wasteland my money's on him "One-on-One" to kick your sorry racist ass!!

Darko

pre 8 godina

I agree with you Nikola - civilized cultures have always upheld the notion of innocent until proven guilty. So it's alarming that a pattern of deaths in custody during the trial process becomes this apparent (10 is alarmingly high). Any civilized culture would address this, so an enquiry must surely follow.

Bob

pre 8 godina

I love it some more.

The point of the Hague was to upset those who supported the murders done in the war.

It works!!! Good oh!!!

You can tell they are upset by their posts and their anti-voting.

The Hague has certainly wound them up something proper !!!

Maybe one day the thought might get through their thick sculls, that the ethnic cleansing and the murders were not a nice thing.

Mind you, those sculls are often pretty thick.

Please vote against this if you are thick.

Joni

pre 8 godina

@ Mlladic Ratko

Are you writing these comments from the Hague or from Siberia?

Don’t worry there is a special punishment for "war criminals" such as yourself. :)

icj1

pre 8 godina

The Hague knows that the Serbs are innocent
(Nikola Novakovic, 9 February 2016 16:20)

The Hague has not said that, so you are lying!

First of all, Hague does not deal with ethnic groups, whether Serbs or others. Hague deals with individuals of any ethnicity or citizenship who are accused by the ICTY prosecutor to have commited serious violations of the international humanitarian law in the territory of former Yugoslavia from 1991 onward.

Hague has found some (but not all) of the accused individuals of Serb ethnicity innocent.

Gjon Marku

pre 8 godina

Robert Baer, a former senior CIA officer was interviewed and asked about Srebrenica...
(sj, 10 February 2016 10:55)

Thanks for never providing a source to back up your statements. It really helps your credibilty.

Genti

pre 8 godina

Serbian secret services killing more of their own to avoid public embarrassment and more incriminations of some of the governing caste. You can all kill one another like rats, but the truth will eventually come out and the guilty ones will be prosecuted.

sasa.p

pre 8 godina

Djakovo is full of war criminals right now Marku haven't you noticed? They evicted the majority of decent citizens during and after the illegal NATO onslaught. Whilst people like your good-self remain there they won't be returning anytime soon.No-one wants neighbours who have murder on their minds,do they? Incidentally should the Donkey ride into your wasteland my money's on him "One-on-One" to kick your sorry racist ass!!
(Marku my words, 11 February 2016 01:31)

You are wrong Marku my word's.
Gijon Marku doesn't live there,but in Australia! All Shqiptars commenting on this site,don't live and suffer in NATO Paradise KiM(Pristina), but live abroad/ overseas.