Ratko Miadic was a Bosnian Serb general who was the chief "on the ground" man for Karadzic's military. He is the man who can be found on the youtube films two posts back.
Ratko Mladic was born in Bosnia, in the village of Kalinovik, in 1942.
He was brought up in Tito's Yugoslavia, becoming a regular officer in the Yugoslav People's Army.
As the country began to disintegrate in 1991, he was posted to lead the Yugoslav army's 9th Corps against Croatian forces at Knin.
Later, he took command of the Yugoslav Army's Second Military District, based in Sarajevo.
Then, in May 1992, the Bosnian Serb Assembly voted to create a Bosnian Serb army, appointing Gen Mladic commander.
He is considered to have been one of the prime movers in the siege of Sarajevo and in 1995 led the Serb onslaught against the UN-protected enclave of Srebrenica, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.
Bosnian Serb forces laid siege to the Srebrenica enclave, where tens of thousands of civilians had taken refuge from earlier Serb offensives in north-eastern Bosnia.
The Serb forces bombarded Srebrenica with heavy shelling and rocket fire for five days before Mr Mladic entered the town accompanied by Serb camera crews.
The next day, buses arrived to take the women and children sheltering in Srebrenica to Muslim territory, while the Serbs separated out all Muslim men and boys from age 12 to 77 for "interrogation for suspected war crimes".
In the five days after Bosnian Serb forces overran Srebrenica, at least 7,500 Muslim men and boys were murdered.
After the end of the Bosnian war, Mr Mladic returned to Belgrade, enjoying the open support and protection of Mr Milosevic. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1423551.stm)
Above is a picture of Mladic when he met with the lead NATO officer who had his Dutch troops stationed in Srebrenica to protect the civilians within the city. Mladic had complete control over the situation. He knew that NATO would not try to resist their efforts, and just as he suspected, the NATO forces put up no resistance. Mladic told NATO that they do not belong there and if they wished to leave with their lives, they would turn in their weapons and leave the city. NATO gave up their arms, and even their uniforms to the Serb troops. This is when the residents were loaded into trucks to be sent towards a number of concentration camps. Many ran into the woods to evade capture and began to make their way towards Bosnian controlled territory. The hills were shelled and mortared to kill those trying to flee. The Serbian soldiers dressed in the U.N. gear to trick those trying to escape and seeking refuge.
In that event alone, over 7,500 people were murdered.
In 1995 Ratko Mladic was charged with war crimes along with Radovan Karadzic. He was accused of genocide, crimes of humanity, and various other war crimes. One such crime involved a civilian sniping campaign in Sarajevo. He was also charged with taking UN peace-keeping troops hostage. Like Karadzic, Mladic went into hiding. There were reports of spottings at different places around Europe, and even reports that he was being hidden by the Serb armed forces. A refusal of Serbia to deliver Mladic by a May 1st, 2006 deadline suspended talks about Serbia joining the European Union. However, the Serb government claims they are searching for his whereabouts so he can be brought to justice.
Ratko Mladic is currently on the loose and has not been tried for his crimes during the genocide.
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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.
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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 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 toic 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 Darko Trifunovic’s absence in those meetings and I am proud to undertake this effort on Serbia’s behalf.