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Fugitive War Criminal May Be Living Freely

Bosnian TV purports to show Ratko Mladic at wedding, out with family

By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 11, 2009 10:02 AM CDT

(Newser) – Bosnian television has aired what it calls footage of Ratko Mladic, the notorious Serbian war criminal on the lam since 1995, including a video it says was filmed last winter, reports the BBC. The footage, whose veracity has been disputed, seems to show Mladic living peacefully in a Belgrade suburb, and one shot shows him with current army officers. He is wanted by a Hague tribunal for 15 counts of genocide and crimes against humanity in connection with the Bosnian civil war.

Officials hoped the 2008 arrest of Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader, would lead to Mladic's capture, but Serbian authorities have failed to bring him to justice. The EU has made his arrest a precondition for joining the bloc. One of the videos purports to show him standing outside with two women that Bosnian TV identified as his wife and daughter, but a Serbian official said it was "simply impossible" that Mladic was wandering freely.

Mladic is wanted on genocide charges by a UN war crimes tribunal. Serbia must arrest him if it wants to move closer to the European Union.
Mladic is wanted on genocide charges by a UN war crimes tribunal. Serbia must arrest him if it wants to move closer to the European Union.   (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic)
Protesters hold a photo showing top war crimes fugitive Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic, during a rally to mark the 10th anniversary of the NATO bombing campaign in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Air raid sirens sounded across Serbia on Tuesday to mark the 10th anniversary of the NATO...
Protesters hold a photo showing top war crimes fugitive Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic, during a rally to mark the 10th anniversary of the NATO bombing campaign in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, March 24,...   (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Bosnian Serb army commander and top war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic in a 1999 photo.
Bosnian Serb army commander and top war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic in a 1999 photo.   (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic)
In this undated file picture, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, left, and Gen. Ratko Mladic attend an assembly session in Pale, near Sarajevo, Bosnia.
In this undated file picture, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, left, and Gen. Ratko Mladic attend an assembly session in Pale, near Sarajevo, Bosnia.   (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic )
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This video aired on Bosnian television is said to show Ratko Mladic, who has been wanted since 1995 for genocide and crimes against humanity, living peaceably in Serbia.   (patchw0rld)

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JIll Starr
Jan 24, 2011 6:31 PM CST
What It’s Like to Chill Out With Whom the Rest of the World Considers As The Most Ruthless Men: Ratko Mladic, Goran Hadzic and Radovan Karadzic (+) Confessions of a Female War Crimes Investigator By Jill Louise Starr NJ USA https://sites.google.com/site/jillstarrsite/what-it-s-like-to-chill-out-with-whom-the-rest-of-the-world-considers-as-the-most-ruthless-men-in-the-world-ratko-mladic-and-radovan-karadzic-confessions-of-a-female-war-crimes-investigator Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the world’s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing you’d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about.
JIll Starr
Jan 24, 2011 6:31 PM CST
'''Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt Court/Irrefutable Proof the Hague Court Cannot Legitimately Prosecute Karadzic Case By Jill Starr http://picasaweb.google.com/lpcyusa (The Documentary Secret United Nations ICC Meeting Papers Scanned Images) https://sites.google.com/site/jillstarrsite/irrefutable-proof-icty-is-corrupt-court-irrefutable-proof-the-hague-court-cannot-legitimately-prosecute-karadzic-case This legal technicality indicates the Hague must dismiss charges against Dr Karadzic and others awaiting trials in the Hague jail; like it or not. Unfortunately for the Signatures Of the Rome Statute United Nations member states instituting the ICC & ICTY housed at the Hague, insofar as the, Radovan Karadzic, as with the other Hague cases awaiting trial there, I personally witnessed these United Nations member states having a substantial conversations, and, openly speaking about trading judicial appointments and verdicts for financial funding when I attended the 2001 ICC Preparatory Meetings at the UN in Manhattan making the iCTY and ICC morally incapable trying Radovan Karazdic and others. I witnessed with my own eyes and ears when attending the 2001 Preparatory Meetings to establish an newly emergent International Criminal Court, the exact caliber of criminal corruption running so very deeply at the Hague, that it was a perfectly viable topic of legitimate conversation in those meetings I attended to debate trading verdicts AND judicial appointments, for monetary funding. Jilly wrote:*The rep from Spain became distraught and when her country’s proposal was not taken to well by the chair of the meeting , then Spain argued in a particularly loud and noticably strongly vocal manner, “Spain (my country) strongly believes if we contribute most financial support to the Hague’s highest court, that ought to give us and other countries feeding it financially MORE direct power over its decisions.” ((((((((((((((((((((((((( ((((((((((((((((((((((((( Instead of censoring the country representative from Spain for even bringing up this unjust, illegal and unfair judicial idea of bribery for international judicial verdicts and judicial appointments, all country representatives present in the meeting that day all treated the Spain proposition as a ”totally legitimate topic” discussed and debated it between each other for some time. I was quite shocked! The idea was “let’s discuss it.” "It’s a great topic to discuss." Some countries agreed with Spain’s propositions while others did not. The point here is, bribery for judicial verdicts and judicial appointments was treated as a totally legitimate topic instead of an illegitimate topic which it is in the meeting that I attended in 2001 that day to establish the ground work for a newly emergent international criminal court.)))))))))))))))))))))))))))) In particular., since “Spain” was so overtly unafraid in bringing up this topic of trading financial funding the ICC for influence over its future judicial appointments and verdicts in front of every other UN member state present that day at the UN, “Spain” must have already known by previous experience the topic of bribery was “socially acceptable” for conversation that day. They must have previously spoke about bribing the ICTY and ICC before in meetings; this is my take an international sociological honor student. SPAIN’s diplomatic gesture of international justice insofar as, Serbia, in all of this is, disgusting morally!SPAIN HAS TAUGHT THE WORLD THE TRUE DEFINITION OF AN “INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT.” I represented the state interests’ of the Former Yugoslavia, in Diplomat Darko Trifunovic’s absence in those meetings and I am proud to undertake this effort on Serbia’s behalf. ==================================================================================
Guest
Jun 11, 2009 12:35 AM CDT
Well at least this guy knows how to party (see 6:30)

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