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Serbian War Crimes Suspects Arrested

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  1. GRW

    GRW Pillboxologist WW2|ORG Editor

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    Be interesting to watch how this plays out.
    "In A first for Serbia, police yesterday arrested eight men accused of taking part in killing more than 1,000 Bosnian Muslims in the 1995 Srebrenica ­massacre.

    The move could be a significant milestone toward healing the wounds of Europe’s worst slaughter of civilians since the Second World War.

    Chief Serbian war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said that all those arrested “are former members of a special brigade of the Bosnian Serb police”.

    The massacre took place at a warehouse on the outskirts of Srebrenica, a team of Serbian and Bosnian prosecutors said. Altogether, more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed in the ­enclave by the Serbs in 1995, the only atrocity in Europe to be labelled genocide by the United Nations since the Second World War.

    Serbian prosecutors initially arrested seven suspects in pre-dawn raids yesterday at different locations in Serbia, then caught the eighth suspect later in the day after a manhunt. The prosecutors said they are still searching for more suspects in Serbia and in neighbouring countries.

    The biggest arrest in the sweep was Nedeljko Milidragovic, the commander dubbed “Nedjo the Butcher,” who went on to become a successful businessman in Serbia.

    More than 100,000 people were killed and millions left homeless in Bosnia’s 1992-95 war when Bosnian Serbs, supported by neighbouring Serbia, rebelled against Bosnia’s declaration of independence from Serb-led ­Yugoslavia."
    http://www.scotsman.com/news/world/serbian-police-arrest-eight-accused-of-war-crimes-1-3721188
     
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    Kai-Petri Kenraali

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    OK. Now the hunting is left to the local police force. yes, interesting indeed.
     
  3. rkline56

    rkline56 USS Oklahoma City CG5

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    Yes, after 20 years on a "Free Pass". Good olde Serbia. Marshall Tito dies and the whole joint, well you know.
     
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    Kai-Petri Kenraali

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    He was arrested in Belgrade on 21 July 2008 and brought before Belgrade's War Crimes Court a few days later.[3] Extradited to the Netherlands, he was placed in the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the United Nations Detention Unit of Scheveningen, where he was charged with 11 counts of war crimes.[5][6] He is sometimes referred to by the Western media as the "Butcher of Bosnia"

    Can you guess? He was the leader of the black market in Serbia so he robbed his own people as well. Nothing new to be honest.

    Count 2: Genocide.
     
  5. Takao

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    It is still playing out...
    Repeatedly Delayed, Serbia’s Only Srebrenica Trial Stalls Again
     
  6. GRW

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    Sounds about right. Never met a poor lawyer yet.
     
  7. Kai-Petri

    Kai-Petri Kenraali

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    Nothing.
     
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