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UK government wants to whitewash Bosnian war crime – expert
Published: 27 July, 2010, 23:11
Edited: 30 July, 2010, 16:23
A group of young Bosnian militiamen flash peace signs as they travel to the battlefield in a military cargo vehicle. Thousands of Bosnian and Serb civilians were victims of the Yugos...
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A UK court has blocked the extradition of former acting Bosnian president Ejup Ganic to Serbia where he is wanted on war crimes charges.
Ganic is accused of ordering the deaths of more than 40 Yugoslav army soldiers, mostly Serbs, in Sarajevo at the beginning of the Bosnian War in 1992.
Serb authorities wanted him to stand trial and sought his extradition from UK, where he had been arrested earlier.
Ejup Ganic was seized at Heathrow airport in March after Serbia issued an international arrest warrant. However, Ganic denies being responsible for the atrocities.
According to Balkans expert Misha Gavrilovich, whether it was Ganic or not, there were war crimes committed in Sarajevo in 1992 and the case remains unresolved, as Britain does its best to whitewash the case.
”There is one thing we can be absolutely clear here and that is a war crime has taken place – 40 people are dead. The Yugoslav soldiers who were perfectly legitimate in Bosnia at the time had tried to withdraw through a UN brokered agreement, which was with Mister Ganic’s people, and yet, they were shot at and 40 of them were murdered. It is a war crime. It needs to be resolved in some way.”
”It does not follow that Mister Ganic would have been found guilty for this. He was simply in charge of the Bosnian Muslim forces at the time. He was a standing president, hence the authority to carry out such an action came from him and he was responsible for it,” Gavrilovich added. “If it turned out that it was not him, then certainly a trial would find out who was responsible.”
”The important thing is we must be quite clear about – a war crime has taken place and it must be resolved, but the British government may well want to whitewash this whole thing because they, themselves, have taken the side of the Bosnian Muslim and Mister Ganic’s separatists in Bosnia at the time. This is very important to bear in mind.”
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Another very poor article I'm afraid. You report the fact and then give a wholly one-sided commentary on it by one party. No attempt to give any details of the ruling by the UK court - which is not the same as the UK government, difficult though it may be for you in Russia to grasp the concept of an independent judiciary. Contrast the report on this matter by the BBC website, which gives a balanced view from both sides, and is headlined by a neutral statement, not a soundbite from an interested party. I'm afraid I feel I can rarely visit this website to read anything informative - it is increasingly a case of perusing it to find what particular spin you have placed on an item. That is a state of affairs you should think hard about, because I am sure I am not alone in that.
Sevodnya-net The "Independent Judiciary" you think is so wonderful in the UK has resulted in many terrorists (some of whom have openly stated that they wish to destroy the UK and it's people) from being deported.Judges in the UK (i.e.the "Independent Judiciary") are more concerned with the "Human Rights" of terrorists than the safety of the UK people.As for the impartiality of the BBC - don't make me laugh !! The vast majority of the journalist/commentators at the BBC have a "liberal politically correct" view of the world.There was no impartiality when the leader of the British National Party appeared on the BBC television programme "Question Time" earlier this year.