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Even the present Serbian government, which would clearly like to break with the obstructionist, anti-Western and self-­defeating policies of its predecessor, may find Mladic more difficult to deliver than Karad­zic: he is the army’s man, and undoubtedly under its protection. Still, the anti-Western nationalists – embodied above all in the hardline Serbian Radical Party, which has shrilly denounced the arrest and deportation of Karadzic – are a declining force in Serbia, whose eventual EU membership looks more assured than ever.

If the signals from Serbia are largely positive, those from Bosnia reflect the mixed reception that the Karadzic arrest has received from Bosnia’s different entities. The parliament in Bosnia’s Serb Republic (Republika Srpska) suspended sessions last week in protest at what Mladen Bosic, the leader of the Serb Democratic Party (formerly led by Karadzic), described as an “orgy” of celebrations by politicians in the Bosnian Federation over Karadzic’s arrest. Bosic claimed that Karadzic’s trial would be “a trial against the whole of Republika Srpska”.

Karadzic himself has warned in the past that “my arrest will mean the end of the Bosnian Serb republic”. Indeed, some Bosniak (Muslim) politicians, most notably Bosnian President Haris Silajdzic, have hinted that Karadzic’s arrest should be followed up by the abolition of Republika Srpska: “Karadzic is arrested, but his project is not. It is alive and thriving,” he said. “The international community has a duty to erase the effects of genocide in Bosnia, not just to arrest ­Karadzic.”

Milorad Dodik, the Prime Minister of the Bosnian Serbs, has responded that Republika Srpska as a whole is not responsible for Karadzic’s crimes. Just as Bosnian politicians are raising voices for the abolition of Republika Srpska, so Dodik has been quietly laying the groundwork for Republika Srpska’s eventual secession, leading Paddy Ashdown, former High Representative for Bosnia, to warn: “The division of Bosnia that was his [Karad­zic’s] dream is now more likely than at any time since he became a fugitive.” Karadzic’s trial could prove explosive at any number of levels.

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Jill Starr
January 23rd, 2011
2:01 PM
'''Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt Court/Irrefutable Proof the Hague Court Cannot Legitimately Prosecute Karadzic Case By Jill Starr http://picasaweb.google.com/lpcyusa (The Documentary Secret United Nations ICC Meeting Papers Scanned Images) https://sites.google.com/site/jillstarrsite/irrefutable-proof-icty-is-co... 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 having a substantial conversations, and, 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 topic 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 Diplomat Darko Trifunovic’s absence in those meetings and I am proud to undertake this effort on Serbia’s behalf. ================================================================================== What It’s Like to Chill Out With Whom the Rest of the World Considers As The Most Ruthless Men: Ratko Mladic, Goran Hadzic and Radovan Karadzic (+) Confessions of a Female War Crimes Investigator By Jill Louise Starr NJ USA https://sites.google.com/site/jillstarrsite/what-it-s-like-to-chill-out-... 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. International Relations Consultant & War Crimes Investigator - War - Peace - Preventive Diplomatic Strategies - International Law - Charitable Causes - International Business - International Political Economy - Human Rights - Politics - War Crimes Investigations - Anti-Terrorism - Law Projects Center Funded Projects (YCICC) Internationally

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