Monday, May 30, 2011

Mladic is appealing the decision to allow his transfer to the ICTY

Counsel for Ratko Mladic, MeMilos Saljic, appealed Monday, May 30, the court's decision for war crimes Serbian authorize the transfer of his client to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY ) at The Hague. For his part, former military leader of Bosnian Serbs has ensured that he had "nothing to do" with the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, which earned him to be indicted for genocide by international justice, according comments reported, Sunday, May 29, by his son Darko.

On leaving the court's detention unit for the Serbian war crimes, where he had talks with his father, Darko Mladic said that he had said "he had nothing to do" with the massacre of some eight thousand Muslims by Bosnian Serb forces at Srebrenica in July 1995. Ratko Mladic was head of the Bosnian Serb forces.

According to his son, former military, who is awaiting transfer to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, further claimed to have given order, in Srebrenica, "to evacuate the first wounded, women and children, then the fighters. " He reiterated that "it had nothing to do with it [the massacre]" and which "could be done behind [her] back." This is the first time since his arrest, which occurred Thursday in Serbia that Mladic that he does not consider itself responsible for the Srebrenica massacre.

Serbian police arrested one hundred and eighty people on Sunday evening and at night on the sidelines of a demonstration in support of Ratko Mladic in Belgrade announced on Monday a spokesman for the Interior Ministry. Thirty policemen and eleven protesters were injured in incidents that have pitted police to rioters, mostly young people who were not necessarily born during the Bosnian war.

A half-dozen shops, five cars and street furniture were also damaged by the violence that erupted on the sidelines of the event pro-Mladic organized by the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), a pillar of Serbian ultra-nationalist movement. The spokesman for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Nerma Jelacic said "doubts" on arrival Monday at The Hague of Ratko Mladic.

"We continue to await notification of the Serbian authorities," she added. "The deadline for appealing [the transfer to The Hague] is today", said the spokesman, who said that the departure date of Serbia Ratko Mladic "will depend on how long it will take to the Serbian authorities complete the process.

" If the lawyer of Ratko Mladic file a remedy, it is the appellate court must make a Serbian decision and forward to the Department of Justice will rule on extradition, a process that might set up to take four days, said State Secretary Slobodan Homen. The Serbian prosecutor in charge of war crimes, Vladimir Vukcevic, who was able to see Ratko Mladic, was considered competent to stand trial.

"We will now focus on the entire network of people who helped him," he added.

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