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Serbia is under endless pressure

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Serbian police have arrested the wife of Bosnian-Serb wartime military chief Ratko Mladic, who is wanted by The Hague tribunal for war crimes.

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Mladen Obradovic, the general secretary for the Serb patriotic movement Obraz, believes this arrest is part of political pressure being applied on the family of Mladic in order to bring him to The Hague tribunal.

“Unfortunately, what they [Serbian government] are doing now is not in the true interest of the Serbian people,” he said. “The majority of the Serbian people are against The Hague tribunal. They believe that Ratko Mladic should never surrender to The Hague tribunal.”

Commenting on the rumors that the general is already dead, as he was already seriously ill when he disappeared 15 years ago, Obradovic agreed that this is possible, but in any case the general’s death “will not mean the end of pressure on Serbia.”

Balkans analyst Marco Gasic believes that the Hague Tribunal is not really the place to be looking for justice.

“The key factor in achieving stability in the Balkans is not to present a one-sided explanation of the war and that’s what the Hague Tribunal is there for,” says Mr. Gasic, pointing out that the Hague is not an impartial legitimate international court, but a body promoting US interests.

“The US as part of its campaign to achieve full spectrum dominance wants also to control the past, because if it controls the appearance of the past, it can control the appearance of the present. And we are seeing that today, and it can then control the appearance of the future. It is a big interest for the US to present these events in a way that justifies US policy. Unfortunately for the world, that means that the US policy of bombing those that it doesn’t like or the areas or against whom it has an interest in acting will be extended to other areas of the world.”


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Lev Arris May 30, 2011, 02:50
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Larry wrote in #3

The whole NATO war to destroy the sovereignty of Yugoslavia was a war crime & nobody should forget that...In fact the NATO war on Yugoslavia was morally more disgraceful than either the Iraq war or the war in Afghanistan. .....This is why no-one hears or reads about it....and why we should repeatedly be reminded of it.....The whole world shamed themselves....Israel, Neo Nazis, Al Qaeda, Corporate Mercenaries & the most powerful nations on earth all teamed up on one country (actually..one people..the Serbs) to crush Yugoslavia so they could reap the financial rewards....while Yeltsin rolled around in a drunken stupor...Yugoslavia was the Soviet Union's sacrificial lamb & the bloody symbol of the end of the Cold War...Shame, shame, shame on all those WWII nations that lost millions to the Nazis in WWII, especially the Israelis...


exactly

 that it was one of the biggest setups, a cheap disembowelment of a country in the modern age, a prototype of what they do in countries like Iraq and Libia.


There is always a reason for all of this. As always innocent people take the fat end of the stick. Its a very sad world today, with twisted perception of words history as we know it.


Dust December 28, 2010, 02:32
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In Serbia,it's a quiet occupation.From outside,everything seems to be normal,but actions our government takes tells a different story.Leader of Serbian Patriotic Movement Obraz (mentioned in text) is now sentenced for 12 years of jail,for supposed organizing of riots in Belgrade.Our documents are being microchiped,as "necessary to get us into EU",in our MoD there's US and UK officers overseeing "professionalization" of Serbian Army,to be compatible with NATO standards.In 2007. and 2009. and in this very day (27.12) two major weapons&ammunition plants and one explosives warehouse got blown up - officials said those were accidents...More likely,planned diversions finishing what NATO bombs missed to destroy in 1999.
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Larry July 13, 2010, 00:57
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The whole NATO war to destroy the sovereignty of Yugoslavia was a war crime & nobody should forget that...In fact the NATO war on Yugoslavia was morally more disgraceful than either the Iraq war or the war in Afghanistan. .....This is why no-one hears or reads about it....and why we should repeatedly be reminded of it.....The whole world shamed themselves....Israel, Neo Nazis, Al Qaeda, Corporate Mercenaries & the most powerful nations on earth all teamed up on one country (actually..one people..the Serbs) to crush Yugoslavia so they could reap the financial rewards....while Yeltsin rolled around in a drunken stupor...Yugoslavia was the Soviet Union's sacrificial lamb & the bloody symbol of the end of the Cold War...Shame, shame, shame on all those WWII nations that lost millions to the Nazis in WWII, especially the Israelis...