Sunday, May 29, 2011

When Mladic drank with the enemy before you kill him

"Rat", the war, Mladic has always had not only in name (Ratko), but also in the blood. A "vocation" that sinks its roots in the ravines of Balkan history. His father died in 1945, attacking the village of Ante Pavelic, the "leader" who led the Croatian Ustasha genocide of Serbs during the Second World War.

E "Ratko" was the most bloodthirsty member of a caste of general-avengers who led the ethnic cleansing of Croats and Muslims as a massive "retaliation" for what the Serbs had suffered half a century earlier. Compared to general-speakers of UN peacekeepers, who in the ritual of the "Briefing" starched camouflage transmitted in the computer security of electronic warfare, the generals knew Serbian barracks and "rakja" drunk on the front lines with their troops.

But this did not prevent them from using the TV to their advantage. Just hours before the massacre in Srebrenica, Mladic became reassured the refugees while filming patting children's heads, and that when his men had already been ordered to drop all those of their parents. While he was negotiating the surrender of Zepa, in the presence of cameras and blue helmets with toasted Havdo Palic Mladic, the head of civil defense of the city.

Then, after the press-conference, had him killed. Misha Glenny, The Fall of Yugoslavia in the book, contains the following telephone conversation between Mladic and Croatian police chief in Split, an old acquaintance. Policeman: "Are you Mladic?" Mladic: "Yes I am, old devil, what do you want?" P: "Three of my boys disappeared around ...

I want to know what happened to" M: "Well, I think they all dead "P:" I can say that the relatives are gone? "M:" Yeah, sure. My word. How's the family? "P:" Oh not bad, thanks. And you? "M:" Fine. They're doing nothing wrong "P:" I'm glad to hear it. Oh, by the way, we have found 20 bodies near the front of your completely stripped.

We've thrown in a ditch and now they stink. Could not you come and pick them up, because it is really unbearable "This" confidence "between merchants of death, leaving bewildered, it becomes more rare with the war in Bosnia, where there is no longer a party, an" enemy ", which is Kids trading corpses, but only a "medium" to clean up.

Ed Vulliamy writes Seasons in hell that Mladic had once said: "Muslims? If the space for one of them will come with five wives and before you understand what's happening, you'll find a village. "

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