Hague has Failed
Jul 10th, 2008 | By De-Construct.net | In Featured Articles
Bratunac Memorial, where the remains of 3,300 Bosnian Serbs from Srebrenica and surrounding villages, slaughtered by Naser Oric’s mujahedeens stationed in Srebrenica during the war, are buried. No one has been convicted for this genocidal crime. Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Hague Failure
Serbian war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said yesterday that the Hague tribunal, as “one of the most controversial institutions, disputed by the politicians, by the experts, by the judiciary, by the accused and by the victims, two years ahead of its closure, has failed to achieve the satisfactory result.”
According to Vukcevic, it is difficult to give any positive assessment of the Hague tribunal’s work after the shameful acquittals of Bosnian Muslim war criminal Naser Oric and Kosovo Albanian war criminal Ramush Haradinaj.
“Haradinaj procured his acquittal through the liquidation of the witnesses. Two eyewitnesses, one indirect witness and six potential witnesses to his crimes were killed. In the case against Haradinaj, the Hague council of judges had clearly pointed to these ‘problems’ in presenting the evidence but, in my opinion, they have tolerated this scandal through their decisions,” Serbian state prosecutor said.
He reminded that in the case against Oric, the horrific war crimes against the Bosnian Serb population in Srebrenica and the surrounding villages were acknowledged, but none of the perpetrators mentioned in the pre-trial sessions in the Hague and locally have been indicted or processed.
“So, we have the war crimes, we have the victims, but there is no punishment. As a prosecutor, I have a very hard time accepting this. It is not easy to stave off the sickening feeling and the fact that the victims have been victimized once again,” Vukcevic concluded.
Oric’s Acquittal — The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back
Russia stated today that due to the Hague tribunal’s obvious bias, its activities should be terminated as soon as possible. Russia’s stand was reinforced by the Hague’s appellation board overturning the tribunal’s verdict in the case against Bosnian Muslim war criminal Naser Oric.
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed that in the case against the Srebrenica warlord and commander of the Muslim troops stationed in Srebrenica, whose conviction the appellation board of the tribunal overturned, the Hague had fully demonstrated its blatant bias.
“Tribunal’s decision merely confirms the necessity to urgently realize the already approved strategy of terminating the activities of this court”, Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry stated.
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