Topic: Crime and Punishment
UN Tribunal Selects Anti-Serbian Lawyer to "Defend" Radovan Karadzic British lawyer Richard Harvey has been selected by the Hague Tribunal to represent and "defend" former Bosnian-Serb president Radovan Karadzic against his will. Harvey has made disparaging remarks about Serbs and he is a defender of an anti-Serbian terrorist group known as the Kosovo Liberation Army.by Andy Wilcoxson
(libertarian)
Friday, November 20, 2009
The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague has reached a new low. They have selected a British attorney named Richard Harvey to "defend" former Bosnian-Serb president Radovan Karadzic in his war crimes trial in The Hague -- and they've done this completely against the will of the defendant.
Marko Sladojevic, one of Karadzic's chosen legal advisers, told the AP news agency that "Mr. Harvey has absolutely no knowledge whatsoever about the case," and Karadzic won't cooperate with him.
In my previous columns, I explained how the Tribunal denied Karadzic the same pre-trial preparation time it afforded to several high profile non-Serbian defendants, I've also written how the Tribunal cut-off funding to Karadzic's chosen legal advisors, but this takes the cake.
The first thing that stands out about this so-called "defense attorney" is the fact that he comes from a NATO country. NATO was a party to the Bosnian war; NATO bombed the Bosnian-Serbs. It doesn't look right for the so-called "defense attorney" to come from the enemy camp. How would it look if Karadzic was an American, and the lawyer came from someplace like Iran, or North Korea?
Mr. Harvey not only comes from an enemy country, he is also a defender of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian terrorist organization that waged a secessionist war against Serbia and cleansed Kosovo of nearly its entire Serbian and other non-Albanian populations. Harvey is in bed with the Serbs' biggest enemies -- and he's the one the Tribunal picked to "defend" a Serbian leader.
Here is what Harvey had to say about the KLA and the Serbs in a brief he filed for KLA commander Lahi Brahimaj: "the Kosovar Albanians waged a national liberation struggle against alien domination ... the KLA sought to be a professional and honorable army, in contrast to the tactics of the Serbs against the ethnic Albanian population."
Here is a photo of Harvey's "professional and honorable" KLA posing with the severed heads of Serbs they butchered in Kosovo.
In the courtroom Harvey wasn't shy about expressing his admiration for the KLA; he praised KLA commander Lahi Brahimaj and compared him to Nelson Mandela. He told the court that Brahimaj shouldn't be found guilty; he should be found "brilliant".
While defending the KLA, Harvey argued that Serbs weren't trustworthy. He said, "Beyond the Serb forces rumor-mill, there is a disturbing lack of credible and reliable evidence." He disparaged what he called "those Serb intelligence documents upon which the Prosecution places so much reliance."
Of all the lawyers in the entire world, this is the guy the Tribunal found to "defend" a Serbian leader. This is the guy that's supposed to represent Radovan Karadzic and defend him in court. There isn't even a fig-leaf appearance of fairness for the Tribunal to hide behind. They literally went out and got a KLA lawyer from a NATO country to do the job. And this guy didn't even do a good job for the KLA; both of his clients got convicted.
The Hague Tribunal is a kangaroo court. Radovan Karadzic isn't being put on trial, he's being lynched.
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I cannot believe that you are using that long discredited photograph. It's the silliest piece of photoshop nonsense. Your article isn't much better. A lawyer's job is to defend his/ her client, no more and no less.
Posted By: Andy Wilcoxson
Date: 2009-11-21 20:18:15
Who discredited the photograph Mike? The victim is Bojan Cvetkovic. He was born in Nis in 1972. He was captured by the KLA on April 11, 1999 near Suva Reka and never seen alive again.
If this is Photoshop the graphic artist did an excellent job of getting the light and shadowing right. They even have the hair on Cvetkovic's head sticking through (the KLA soldier) Sadik Cuflaj's fingers. If it's photoshop, it's certainly the best I've ever seen.
Posted By: No Name Supplied
Date: 2009-11-21 23:26:55
I think it's a stretch to say that because the lawyer is from a NATO country that he isn't going to be good for Karadzic. Regardless of what NATO did, he doesn't represent NATO and or NATO values, goals, etc. You can't hold a citizen responsible for whatever his/her country does or what organization his/her country belongs to.
Furthermore, if Karadzic were American and his lawyer was Iranian or North Korean, it wouldn't matter because the lawyers aren't representing those countries. They would be representing Karadzic and his interests.
Posted By: Bill Bernhard
Date: 2009-11-22 00:04:49
I have mixed emotions on former President Radovan Karadzic however if the research done for this article is correct and Richard Harvey is indeed who Mr. Andy Wilcoxson says he is and has done the things this article purports he has done and stood for, then it is indeed telling about this trial and a clear statement to the predetermined outcome they intend to have. Justice should be blind, not to the truth but to bias and it is indeed a travesty of justice and a mockery of all the west holds dear if indeed this is the way The Hague dispenses Justice. Crimes were committed by some on all three sides yet it is amazing how the Serbs seem to be the main focus of the UN's retribution. The West actions in these matters bring to mind the historical moment in History where Constantinople through open its gates to Western Crusaders whom they thought had come to aid them in their defense of Christendom from the ever expansionist Muslim onslaught from the East. To their dismay they were sacked by the very people they thought were their Calvary, their brothers, their fellow Believers. Constantinople recovered but their faith and their morale never did; Constantinople was weakened more by this incident of betrayal than by anything they had ever endured at their enemy’s hands and partially as a result of this weakened position they were eventually subdued by the Muslim Hordes from the East and the rest is history. I am just curious if history is repeating itself and in our haste to show how unprejudiced we are to other faiths we are abandoning our Brothers in the East again starting in Bosnia (Eastern Europe) and completing the betrayal by total ambivalence to the plight of the Christians throughout the Middle East including Iraq. President Karadzic may indeed be guilty but the court should be impartial in their application of justice in this matter and anything less is not only ethically wrong it is CRIMINAL.
Posted By: Andy Wilcoxson
Date: 2009-11-22 01:14:20
No name, I didn't say that no lawyer from a NATO country would do a good job. Indeed, Karadzic has requested the assistance of Peter Robinson (an American lawyer from California) on his defense team.
What I say is that it doesn't look right for the IMPOSED lawyer to be from a NATO country. Karadzic didn't hire Mr. Harvey -- Mr. Harvey is being rammed down his throat. The fact that Mr. Harvey is comes from a NATO country and that he represented the KLA raises red flags all over the place.
What Richard Harvey said that "the Kosovar Albanians waged a national liberation struggle against alien domination ... the KLA sought to be a professional and honorable army, in contrast to the tactics of the Serbs against the ethnic Albanian population." is very true. Anyone who has followed Balkan politics in the past 30 years (if not longer) knows what tactics and means have first JNA and then Serb’s so called ‘army’ done in Kosovo, Croatia, Sandzak and Bosnia and Herzegovina, all in the name of ‘Great Serbia’ knows that Richard is telling the truth. You Andy either have no idea or you have hidden agenda.
He apparently dares to tell the truth! I am just puzzled why he would like to defend a criminal, a man behind Bosnian genocide and tortures unseen before???
As for you Andy, I can not comprehend why you are so worried about a ‘person’ like Karadzic. Where do you possible find compassion for someone like that? If your family was slaughtered and thrown in a mass-grave, would you have compassion for the killer?
I do not remember seeing anything from you during the Siege of Sarajevo that lasted 44 months. Do you think that by ethnically cleansing (genocide) 49% of non-Serbs from Bosnia and then giving it to Serbs by so called ‘peace-agreement’ is ok for you?
Posted By: Andy Wilcoxson
Date: 2009-11-23 21:25:40
Oh come off it Dia, "genocide and tortures unseen before" give me a break. The Bosnian War killed between 94,000 and 102,000 people. That's a lot of people, it's too many people, but it's hardly unprecidented. Compared to the death toll in Iraq or in some of the battles that were seen in World War II, Bosnia wasn't that bad in comparison. The 1945 firebombing of Tokyo killed as many people as the whole 1992-95 Bosnian war, except the bombing raid happened all happened in one night. So quit pretending like the Bosnian war was something uniquely evil in the annals of warfare, because it wasn't.
All three sides committed crimes, all three sides suffered, all three sides had casulties and refugees. The difference is that the Serbs didn't start the Bosnian war. They may have used savage means to accomplish their war objectives, but they aren't the ones who wanted to carve-up Yugoslavia. They didn't set-up paramilitary groups before the war to forcibly seize a chunk of Yugoslavia and govern it. They wanted to maintain the status-quo and remain living in Yugoslavia. You're acting like the secessionists are the victims. They attacked Yugoslavia, they resorted to force in order to acheive their political and territorial ambitions. Of course they were going to be met with force, they're victims of their own billigerance.
If you'd really been following events in the Balkans for the last 30 years you would know that an ethnically pure greater Albania has been the goal of the Kosovo-Albanians that whole time. You would know that after WW2 the first people to flee ethnic persecution in the former Yugoslavia were the Serbian and Montenegrin population of Kosovo during the 70s and 80s. You would know that the Albanian sepratist riots in Kosovo during the 1980s were, at the time, the worst outbreak of violence Yugoslavia had seen since the second world war. You would know that violent Kosovo-Albanian sepratism existed in Kosovo long before Milosevic ever got involved in politics.
Tell me, why shouldn't Karadzic be permitted to make any defense he wants? If he needs time to prepare a defense, why not give him the same time that's been given to others? If he wants legal help, why not let him choose his own lawyer? If you want to deny him any of that then I'd say you're the one with the hidden agenda.
If it wasn't tragic it would have been comic how you manipulate facts and turn them up-side down. At the bottom of my post I am providing few links, not for you Andy, as I think it is too late for you and clearly you are lobbing for Serbs. All you value is $$$$!
Serbia and only Serbia is behind all the wars in former Yugoslavia! They have been preparing for so many years for what was going to happen during 1990s. 95% of army generals ware Serbs in the JNA (Yugoslav National Army) at the beginning of 1990. Army that every citizen contributed to, yet the same army that will turn against own population.
Over 200.000 people died just in Bosnia. Over 500.000 were displaced. 8000 Bosnjaks died in Srebrenica in just few days.
I hope one day that there will be prosecution for BiH genocide deniers same as there is one for Holocaust. And you know Andy that you will be first one on the list!
Posted By: Andy Wilcoxson
Date: 2009-11-25 12:56:07
Who's paying me Dia? Seriously, tell me where I'm supposed to pick-up my check? I want to know.
No offence, but you don't know what you're talking about. The JNA was never dominated by the Serbs -- it was never the case that 95% of the JNA's generals were Serbs. You're making that up so that you can pretend like everything was the Serb's fault.
In 1991, out the top 16 JNA commanders, only 2 were Serbs. There was one Yugoslav, two Serbs, eight Croats, two Slovenians, two Macedonians, and one Muslim. The President of Yugoslavia in 1991, was Stjepan Mesic -- a Croat.
For example, the commander of the JNA was Veljko Kadijevic, a Yugoslav, with a Croatian mother and a Serbian father. Konrad Kolsek, a Slovene, was the head of the north-western theatre of war command in Zagreb. Aleksandar Spirkovski, a Macedonian, was head of the central district command in Belgrade. Andrija Silic, a Croat, was head of the staff of the central theatre of war. Zivota Avramovic, a Serb, was head of the south-east district command in Skopje. Bozidar Grubisic, a Croat, was the commander of the navy, and the chairman of the Yugoslav League of Communists in the JNA. Anton Tus, a Croat, was the commander of the air force. Zvonko Jurjevic, another Croat, was the deputy head of the air force. Ivan Radinovic, a Croat, was the head of the JNA military schools in Belgrade. Ibrahim Alibegovic, a Muslim, was head of the JNA war school (and every JNA soldier had to pass this school). Tomislav Bjondic, a Croat, was head of the Command Staff Academy. Mate Pehar, a Croat, was the chief of the military academy in Belgrade. Mile Ruzinovski, a Macedonian, was head of the first administration of the JNA general staff. Stane Brovet, a Slovene, was deputy federal minister in charge of the JNA.
You have an illusion in your mind about a "Serb-dominated" JNA that never existed. The reason why most of the soldiers in the JNA were Serbs was because Izetbegovic, Tudjman, and Kucan told their people not to enlist, to disregard their draft notices, and to desert the army -- so the only ones left were the Serbs, but the leadership of the JNA was always multi-ethnic, right-up until the very end. In fact if there was one ethnic group who dominated the command of the JNA more than the others it was the Croats.
You say that over 200,000 people died in the Bosnian war. You're exaggerating the death toll by a huge margin. Nothing you say has anything to do with reality. The report that Ewa Tabeau and Jacub Bijak did for the Hague Tribunal established that the toll of the Bosnian war was closer to 102,000, and the Sarajevo Research and Documentation Center has only been able to document about 94,000 war related deaths. And those numbers include soldiers, civilians, Serbs, Croats, and Muslims who died during the war.
According to the Tabeau/Bijak report the combined deathtoll of Muslim and Croatian civilians was approx. 38,000 in Bosnia and the Serbian civilian deathtoll was approx. 16,700. But not every Muslim or Croat who died was killed by Serbs, there were instances of Muslims and Croats fighting eachother (i.e. Mostar), and instances of Muslims fighting Muslims (i.e. Bihac). Serbs constituted 31.21% of Bosnia's pre-war population, and Serbs comprised 30.5% of the Bosnian war's civilian death toll. Everybody endured their share of suffering.
The Muslims also deliberately put their civilian population in the cross-fire. Like when they fired on the Serbs from the Kosevo Hospital in Sarajevo in order to draw retaliatory fire against the Hospital.
I'm not surprised that you want Bosnian "genocide" denial laws enacted. You're not likely to find a lot of allies for that cause on a libertarian website where people value freedom of speech, but I understand why somebody like you would have that position. You need to use coercion and threats in order to force others to share your opinion, because you and I both know that the evidence doesn't support it.
I think what you're doing is obscene, you're trying to portray the Muslims as the victims of the Bosnian war, when they're the ones who started the war in the first place. They established paramilitary groups before the war, which they used to forcibly seize Yugoslavia's territory. The Muslims are the main protagonists responsible for the war. Everything that happened, happened as a consequence of their decision to wage a secessionist war against Yugoslavia -- and now here you are trying to blame Karadzic and the Serbs for what Izetbegovic and the Muslims did.
I don’t see any other reason for you to tell all this lies except you receiving a fat check from some Serb organization. They are very well known for it. Just look for at these two:
“Republika Srpska voted to allocate €2.5 million from the 2008 budget for the promotion of the Bosnian Serb entity around the world, mostly in the US and Belgium, represented by international lobbying firms. The actions of authorities in Republika Srpska comprised an "unconstitutional political and lobbying campaign" involving two public relation firms, the US-based Quinn Gillespie Associates (QGA) and Belgium's Hill Knowlton International” Are you working with one of them or you wouldn’t like to share your profit??
Due to the fact that roughly 95% of the JNA's upper leadership was ethnically Serbian, when war broke out in Croatia in 1991 (Croatian War of Independence), the Croatians increasingly treated the JNA as a hostile force. During the Battle of Vukovar, the JNA's diverse ethnic composition of lower fighting units with no real stake or interest in the war in Croatia led to instances of desertion and confusion in the area. This was primarily caused by a lack of understanding as to where they stood with both the Croatian defence forces and the Serbian paramilitary units who were promoting a purely Serbian agenda in Eastern Slavonia.
In april 1990, JNA takes all armament from TO (Territorial Defence) with 200.000 JNA solders. Blagoje Adžić, of Serbian ethnicity, although his rank was Colonel General, he was in charge of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). He is charged by the Osijek County Court in Croatia of genocide.
The morale in parts of the JNA became very low as the war intensified. On September 29, 1991, the navy admiral Vladimir Barović committed suicide while stationed at the Vis naval base, leaving a suicide letter which stated that he could not reconcile his feeling of honor as a Montenegrin with the aggression of JNA against Croatia.At the beginning of war in Croatia, JNA targeted civilianskilling three children near auto-camp Grabovac at Plitvice Lakes. JNA’s tactics of targeting civilians continued during the war in Bosnia and Kosovo.
Many in Macedonia or Bosnia and Herzegovina felt that the war was none of their concern and that their people should not have anything to do with the conflicts developing in the region. By mid-1992, war spread to Bosnia.
Slovenia didn’t had Muslims, neither did Croatia, so you theory that Muslims started the war is story for small children and brain-washed people. In fact, Muslim (Bosnjaks) had no armament for two reasons: they never believed that war will erupt in their country and for the second very soon embargo was imposed on them ‘thanks’ to Lewis MacKenzie, another Serb-lover. Later that sameLewis MacKenzie drinking with Ratko Mladic, raped Bosnia women in concentration camps held by Serbs. Not daring to go to Bosnia to face the charges.
In May 1992, the United Nations Security Council confirmed into dependence of the new republics and accepted them into the UN. In accordance, the Yugoslav Army was asked to withdraw from Bosnia (as it was now deemed a hostile armed intervention in another sovereign state) or face sanctions. On May 12, 1992, JNA units were split between the FR Yugoslavia army and the Army of Republika Srpska (leaving them with all the armament that Serbs will later use for siege of Sarajevo and other fronts in Bosnia), along with the majority of officer staff. In reality, this meant that many units changed nothing except their names and markings.
Let me tell you one thing Andy, supporting and defending ideas of Milosevic and Karadzic makes you one of them!
You can tell lies as much as you want but truth finds its way! And hopefully the UN Tribunal doesn’t make same mistake they made with the monster Milosevic, but rather learn from their ‘mistakes’ and place Karadzic where he belongs.
"Elections in 1990 brought nationalists to power in Croatia and Slovenia, which, together with Macedonia, declared independence in 1991 and were all recognised internationally. Alija Izetbegovic, the leader of Bosnia's multi-ethnic government, called for independence for Bosnia, too; it was recognised as independent by the USA and the EU in 1992.
Bosnia's Serbs, however, weren't happy: they saw themselves and the land they lived on as part of Milosevic's 'Greater Serbia'. The Yugoslav Army (mainly Serb) had just ended a year's fierce conflict with Croatia in an attempt to hang on to Serb communities there. Now it turned its attention to Bosnia, whose forces were restricted by an arms embargo because of recent violence in Bosnian Croatian territory. By the end of 1993 the Serbs (led by Radovan Karadzic) had set up their own Republika Srpska in the east and a Bosnian Serb army (under Ratko Mladic) was in control of nearly three quarters of the country; the Bosnian Croats had been mostly driven out, though a small force continued fighting for its Bosnian territory until 1994; the Bosniaks were hanging on only in the towns.
The European Union (EU) tried mediation, without success. The UN refused to intervene, apart from providing some troop convoys for humanitarian aid. Later its peace-keeping force, UNProFor, undertook to protect 6 'safe areas', mainly Muslim and including Sarajevo (the Bosniak capital) and Srebrenica; it failed. Each so-called safe area, except Sarajevo, fell to the Serbs and was 'ethnically cleansed'. This was the Serbian term accepted by the USA and other members of the UN Security Council to avoid any reference to 'genocide', which would by international law demand their intervention. It had become clear that what was happening in Bosnia was no longer a civil war fuelled by 'ancient feuds', if it ever had been. Bosnia was the victim of one group's determined wish for political domination, which it was prepared to achieve by isolating ethnic groups and if necessary exterminating them..."
"..Srebrenica is situated in what had become, and still is, Republika Srpska. The town, declared a UN safe area in 1992, was now a Bosniak enclave in the care of the French and Dutch governments. In July 1995 Serb troops and paramilitaries led by Ratko Mladic descended on Srebrenica and began shelling it. They had already dealt with Muslim soldiers in the countryside villages. Now they were besieging Srebrenica's thousands of Muslim civilians. Food supplies and water began to dwindle, buildings were damaged, people were injured. Soon Serb troops were able to take up positions close the town's outskirts. In Bosnia's capital, Sarajevo, a radio message from an amateur operator in Srebrenica was heard: 'Please do something. Whatever you can. In the name of God, do something.'
The contingent of Dutch soldiers who made up the UN military presence safeguarding the town (from their HQ in a suburban factory complex) could do little. They were poorly equipped and had no back-up. In any case, over two dozen of them had been taken prisoner by the Serbs and no-one wanted to take action that might endanger the hostages' lives.
However, the Dutch commander did repeatedly ask the French (their military colleagues in this operation) to provide immediate deterrent air strikes; but his requests were repeatedly stalled. (The story goes that one request was rejected because it was on the wrong fax form.) Still hoping for French assistance, the Dutch commander warned Serb officials that there would be air strikes at 6.00 a.m. on the morning of July 11 unless Serbian troops moved away from the town's borders.
But there were no air strikes that dawn (though two jets flew over later). Instead, the Serbs' bombardment intensified. Thousands of Muslims made for the Dutch compound - some killed by shells as they fled. Throughout the day a stream of refugees was slowly admitted inside: up to 6,000 by nightfall. 20,000 more were left waiting outside. There was no food, little water, and a lot of fear.
The following morning representatives of the Dutch battalion and of the Muslims heard that Mladic had made a promise: everyone would be allowed to cross out of Serb territory, but the men would have to be screened first, so that war criminals could be detected, before rejoining their families. Meanwhile, Serb troops quietly surrounded the Dutch HQ.
Soon afterwards Mladic himself appeared, caught on film in genial mode and reassuring a group of women that all would be well. ('Thank you,' they cried.) After him came large numbers of trucks and buses. Serb troops at once began separating off the men from women and children among the civilians outside the UN compound. Women and children were forced on to the trucks and buses. As they were deported, they could hear gunfire echoing round the hills; and they saw corpses lying by the road.
The following day the transports returned to fetch more women and children. There were now no men to be seen among the people in the street, and soon no women and children either. By noon the Serbs were ready to deal with the remaining thousands inside the camp. The Dutch gave the order: 'Leave the camp in groups of 5'. The Serbs stood at the entrance, once again isolating the men and boys.
The deportation of Srebrenica's population took 4 days, and the UN assisted in a way it didn't foresee and couldn't prevent: the Serbs removed the Dutch soldiers' blue peacekeeping helmets and later wore them themselves to trick escapees into handing themselves over.
Up to 7,500 men, and boys over 13 years old, were killed. They were trucked or marched to their places of death. Up to 3,000, many in the act of trying to escape, were shot or decapitated in the fields. (Mladic had sent out his written order to 'block, crush and destroy the straggling parts of the Muslim group'; it was carried out.) 1,500 were locked in a warehouse and sprayed with machine gun fire and grenades. Others died in their thousands on farms, football fields, school playgrounds. The whole action was carried out with military efficiency. (It is said that the transport drivers were each forced to kill one man, to deter them from testifying against the Serb troops later.)
Thousands of the bodies were buried in mass graves. US aerial reconnaissance film shows the signs of a mass grave being covered by earth-moving equipment. Later many bodies were dug up and moved to more secret burial places."
Posted By: Andy Wilcoxson
Date: 2009-11-25 22:28:28
Dia, Which Serbian organization is giving me a fat check? Seriously, look into that and tell me who I should be collecting my paycheck from.
Your arguments are based on "facts" that you or other people have made up. It's fiction. You can say that 95% of the JNA's upper leadership was Serbian, but it wasn't. You can say that Milosevic wanted a "greater Serbia", but he didn't. I suppose you could also say the Earth is flat and the moon is made of green cheese, but it doesn't make it so.
Milosevic's "greater Serbian" ambitions only exist in your immagination. Show me one word that Milosevic ever said in support of a "Greater Serbia". Just give me one example to back-up your claim that this was a plan or an idea that he believed in.
You say that Lewis MacKenzie (the Canadian general in command of the Sarajevo UN Protection Force) was a drunk and a rapist and that he was Mladic's drinking buddy. That's a really far-fetched story, and I seriously doubt that you have any evidence to back it up. You just know that he doesn't carry water for your war propaganda, so you're making-up lies to slander him and compromise his credibility.
Do you know why the Bosnian peace negotiations kept failing, was it all the Serbs' fault? Do you want to tell us who renegged on the EC peace plan that Jose Cutileiro negotiated before the war ever even started? You probably don't because it was the Muslims.
The Serbs aren't perfect angels -- it's true that the non-Serbian population of what is today Republika Srpska decreased by 95.8% during the Bosnian war, but do you know what else is true? It is also true that the Serbian population of what is today the BiH Federation decreased by 89.7% during the war. Everybody has victims and everybody has blood on their hands. The difference is that the Serbs weren't the ones who started the war.
Yugoslavia was a founding member of the UN and a signatory to the Helsinki Final Act. The international community was bound to preserve its territorial integrity -- the fact that the Western nations flouted international law and sided with the secessionists instead doesn't make the acts of secessionist violence against Yugoslavia lawful and legitimate. Nor does it mean that the secessionists weren't the cause of the wars. Obviously they were the cause of the wars.
to claim this photograph is fake is a juvenile and lame arguement.This is the same tactic used by croations all the time when trying to refute pictures of atrocites committed by ustashe in WW2..
Ofcourse this man should not represent Karadzic.He is obviously someone who is not impartial and in having such an opinion he should be disqualified.The hague has been schooled by Seselj and Milosevic and definitly needs a conviction of Karadzic especially to further give credibility to their lies about srebrenica.Considering that the hague is financed by the americans,I fail to see how a Serbian can recieve a fair trial.
To see just how corrupt the court is ,watch some of the trial of milosevic.When he proves witnesses to be liars he is chastized by none other than the judje's.
How dare you spread so much vicious misinformation about the war in Bosnia? I am sick and tired of historical revisionism and moral relativism. For an excellent refutation of Diana Johnstone, Fransisco Gil-White and other historical revisionist see the following website http://eastethnia.blogspot.com/2005/10/long-post-anatomy-of-denial.html
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