Thursday, May 26, 2011

Ratko Mladic has been arrested in Serbia

The former military leader of Bosnian Serbs, Ratko Mladic, was arrested by Serbian police, confirmed Thursday, May 26, Serbian President Boris Tadic, who said that the arrest took place "on the territory of Serbia ". By early evening, he was brought before the judge for Serbian war crimes in Belgrade, which must mean the indictment against him.

Some journalists have insight Ratko Mladic back, flanked by two guards, moving with difficulty, through the courtyard of the Special Court for war crimes, where it had happened before. Ratko Mladic must first undergo a medical examination, according to legal procedure. His lawyer said the hearing had been able to start was interrupted because Mladic was "not ready".

He said that doctors would determine Friday if he was able to attend. >> The indictment of Ratko Mladic (. Pdf) Boris Tadic said the "process of extradition to The Hague, seat of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), was being . According to sources quoted by the BBC, Mladic could happen as early as Thursday in the Netherlands.

The prosecutor of the ICTY rather evoked a period of one week before the former Serb army general's extradition. The head of European diplomacy, Catherine Ashton, said she, that the procedure will take between nine and ten days. Boris Tadic also said that the arrest was "the result of full cooperation of Serbia with the Hague tribunal." "Today we close a chapter in the history of our region that will lead to full réconciliationrégionale, he said.

This removes a huge burden on Serbia and closes a painful page in our history." >> Srebrenica, a massacre in camera With the arrest of Ratko Mladic, all alleged perpetrators of the Srebrenica massacre were arrested. Of the 161 people indicted by the ICTY since its inception in 1993, only one is still at large: it is Goran Hadzic, 52, former president of the Serb Republic of Krajina self-proclaimed, extending approximately one third of Croatian territory during the war, is accused of war crimes and against humanity.

>> Goran Hadzic, the last senior Serb wanted by the ICTY The head of European diplomacy Ashton has hailed the arrest and demanded that Mladic was "transferred without delay" before the ICTY. NATO has estimated that this new offering an opportunity "to justice being done." "We remain committed to assisting the entire region" of the Balkans in its "path towards Euro-Atlantic integration," he assured the Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

London has welcomed the end of a "very unfortunate chapter in the history" of Serbia. The United States said they were "delighted" by the arrest. As for Italian diplomacy, it believes that "reconciles Serbia further to Europe and the European Union". The EU insists regularly to Belgrade for a "full cooperation" with the ICTY in the matter.

The Commission, responsible for evaluating the candidature of Serbia, in October must issue a recommendation to grant or not the status of candidate country to the EU. The Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, on Thursday welcomed the arrest of Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic than desired.

"The arrest of Ratko Mladic is good news for us all, for the world (...). This is good news for justice, [to] restore stability and peace in this region, Kosor said. We also expect the arrest of Goran Hadzic. " Peter Robinson, the lawyer for Radovan Karadzic told Le Monde that his client was "sorry that Ratko Mladic has lost his freedom.

He looks at The Hague to work with him and establish what really happened" Bosnia-Herzegovina during the war (1992-1995) .. Serbia is a "potential candidate" to the European Union. The EU had made cooperation with the ICTY as a precondition to the process ahead. Interrigé sidelines of the G8 in Deauville, the president of the European Commission, Herman Van Rompuy said he "would do everything for Serbia to become a candidate member before the end of the year." >> Read the document from the Thessaloniki Summit in 2003.

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