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Serbia's lawyer calls for Mladic arrest By DUSAN STOJANOVIC, Associated Press Writer Tue Mar 6, 7:37 PM ET BELGRADE, Serbia - Serbia now has a legal obligation to arrest one of the top Bosnian war crimes suspect still at large because it risks United Nations Security Council sanctions after a World Court ruling, the lawyer who led Serbia's defense said Tuesday. "There is nothing to cheer about in Serbia about the lifted genocide charges because what happened in Bosnia was still a huge tragedy and we now have some serious obligations imposed on us," Radoslav Stojanovic said in an interview with The Associated Press. The U.N.'s highest court cleared Serbia last week of genocide against Muslims in Bosnia's bloody war. But it said the country's former government should have stopped the 1995 slaughter of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica and ordered Serb leaders to hand over Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb wartime commander and alleged mastermind of the massacre. "We are now legally, and not only morally or politically, obliged to arrest Mladic," Stojanovic said. "If we don't do it, the World Court's ruling makes it now possible for (the U.N.) Security Council to impose sanctions against our country." The case marked the first time a state had been taken to court over allegations of genocide, outlawed in a U.N. convention in 1948 after the Nazi Holocaust, although individuals have been convicted in genocide cases linked to massacres in Bosnia and Rwanda. Mladic has been on the run since the 1995 genocide charges were filed against him by a separate U.N. war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia based in The Hague, Netherlands. He is believed to be hiding in Serbia under the protection of his wartime allies in the army and police. Along with Mladic, the top fugitive suspect is his accused accomplice, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Karadzic is believed to be hiding somewhere in the Serb-controlled portion of Bosnia, out of Serbia's reach. Stojanovic said that he used a 2002 CIA report on Bosnia in his defense against the Bosnian genocide charges. "There were numerous passages in that report, which were 70 percent in our favor, that showed that Serbia was not as much involved in the Bosnian war as the Bosnian side had claimed," Stojanovic said. +++ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/kOt0.A/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
