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It seems that Ratko Mladic, general of Bosnian civil war infamy, was arrested in northern Serbia today.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13561407

This was one piece of news I personally never expected to hear.
I think this is good news. Not only does this close a chapter of the nineties which has been open for too long (especially for the victims!), but it also brings Serbia closer to the other countries in Europe.

Now is hoping that the inevitable tribunal in The Hague will not take so long that he will be out for reasons of ill health/old age.
 
is it too much to hope that he too had disguised himself as an alternative health practitioner?
 
erwinl said:
This was one piece of news I personally never expected to hear.
I think this is good news. Not only does this close a chapter of the nineties which has been open for too long (especially for the victims!), but it also brings Serbia closer to the other countries in Europe.
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Seconded. Though I think this chapter is only closed when the The Hague tribunal reads his verdict.

erwinl said:
Now is hoping that the inevitable tribunal in The Hague will not take so long that he will be out for reasons of ill health/old age.
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Have there been early releases due to ill health or old age? The only one I'm aware of is Milosevic, but he croaked during the trial.

Have you noticed the name he used - Milorad Komadic (*)? That's an anagram of "I'm Ratko Mladic". And "rat" is Serbian for war - Nomen est omen. :) The Dutch radio presenter who told this added in haste: This reads like a Dan Brown novel.

(*) The BBC page spells it as Komodic, but other websites I've seen spell Komadic.
 
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Ratko Mladic Is Going to the Hague

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13561407

Ratko Mladic, wanted for genocide during the Bosnian war in the 1990s, has been arrested in Serbia.

Serbian President Boris Tadic said the process to extradite the former Bosnian Serb army chief to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague was under way.

Gen Mladic, 69, was found in a village in northern Serbia where had been living under an assumed name.

He faces charges over the massacre of at least 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.
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Now, I much prefer this way of doing things than simply blowing a hole in someone's head and throwing their body in the sea.
 
ddt said:
Seconded. Though I think this chapter is only closed when the The Hague tribunal reads his verdict.


Have there been early releases due to ill health or old age? The only one I'm aware of is Milosevic, but he croaked during the trial.
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Not that I know of now that you mention it. I had al-Megrahi in my mind when I typed this. But he was never before the War crimes tribunal, so he doesn't count.

ddt said:
Have you noticed the name he used - Milorad Komadic (*)? That's an anagram of "I'm Ratko Mladic". And "rat" is Serbian for war - Nomen est omen. :) The Dutch radio presenter who told this added in haste: This reads like a Dan Brown novel.

(*) The BBC page spells it as Komodic, but other websites I've seen spell Komadic.
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Well, he has balls. We can say that for him.
 
ddt said:
Have you noticed the name he used - Milorad Komadic (*)? That's an anagram of "I'm Ratko Mladic". And "rat" is Serbian for war - Nomen est omen. :) The Dutch radio presenter who told this added in haste: This reads like a Dan Brown novel.

(*) The BBC page spells it as Komodic, but other websites I've seen spell Komadic.
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Ehmm, am I missing something, or is Milorad Komadic missing a T there?
 
Ya know, this guy deserves to swing off a rope for what he's done. But because the EU deems the death penalty to be "inhumane", he'll get a cushy cell for the rest of his life. :rolleyes:
 
NWO Sentryman said:
Ya know, this guy deserves to swing off a rope for what he's done. But because the EU deems the death penalty to be "inhumane", he'll get a cushy cell for the rest of his life. :rolleyes:
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It wounldn't make any difference. The odds of The Hague reaching a verdict before he dies of old age are effectively zero.
 
"Well one day I was sitting at home threatening the kids, and I looked out of the hole in the wall and sees this tank drive up and one of Dinsdale's boys gets out and he comes up, all nice and friendly like, and says Dinsdale wants to have a talk with me. So he chains me to the back of the tank and takes me for a scrape round to Dinsdale's. And Dinsdale's there in the conversation pit with Doug and Charles Paisley, the baby crusher, and a couple of film producers and a man they called 'Kierkegaard', who just sat there biting the heads of whippets and Dinsdale sayd 'I hear you've been a naughty boy Clement' and he splits me nostrils open and saws me leg off and pulls me liver out, and I said my name's not Clement and then he loses his temper and nails my head to the floor. "

Monty Python
 
geni said:
It wounldn't make any difference. The odds of The Hague reaching a verdict before he dies of old age are effectively zero.
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Unfortunately true I'm afraid.
But maybe they'll surprise us. One can hope can't we?
 
Ever notice how, when these monsters are caught, they always have poor health and need all sorts of care.
Why don't the captors afford them the same care they gave to their victims ?
 
theprestige said:
Why the Hague, though? Does Serbia not have a court high enough to try him?
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Because he's on the most wanted list of the ICTY. And I think Serbia will be very happy to extradite him and have the ICTY deal with him. There's still considerable popular support in Serbia for their "heroes".

NWO Sentryman said:
Ya know, this guy deserves to swing off a rope for what he's done. But because the EU deems the death penalty to be "inhumane", he'll get a cushy cell for the rest of his life. :rolleyes:
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Dutch TV just showed a cell in the Scheveningen prison. It's not cushy, but they added that the prisoners are not confined to just their cell for most of the time. And yeah I agree, Mladic deserves the harshest sentence (that's life sentence) - he's the worst European war criminal since WW2.

geni said:
It wounldn't make any difference. The odds of The Hague reaching a verdict before he dies of old age are effectively zero.
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He's not yet 70, so there's good hope he gets to enjoy his sentence.
 
NWO Sentryman said:
Ya know, this guy deserves to swing off a rope for what he's done. But because the EU deems the death penalty to be "inhumane", he'll get a cushy cell for the rest of his life. :rolleyes:
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I'd bet that the trial itself takes the rest of his life... what's the over/under for the trial? 6 years? 10 years?

I guess Serbia didn't want to be treated like a pariah state any longer, it was obvious they were protecting him.
 
ddt said:
Seconded. Though I think this chapter is only closed when the The Hague tribunal reads his verdict.


Have there been early releases due to ill health or old age? The only one I'm aware of is Milosevic, but he croaked during the trial.

Have you noticed the name he used - Milorad Komadic (*)? That's an anagram of "I'm Ratko Mladic". And "rat" is Serbian for war - Nomen est omen. :) The Dutch radio presenter who told this added in haste: This reads like a Dan Brown novel.

(*) The BBC page spells it as Komodic, but other websites I've seen spell Komadic.
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Yes, because all Serbian war criminals leave clues in English. Someone has been watching reruns of Harry Potter movies.
 
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