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[A work after James Fennimore Cooper. A tragedy. For having the temerity of fulfilling their sworn obligation to defend their people and nation against arbitrary attacks from abroad and from within, the two inextricably connected. For heroically withstanding ten years of economic strangulation, a decade of spurious slander and jesuitical obloquy, years of diplomatic isolation, seventy nine days of intense and merciless bombing, a year and a half of vulgar mercenary blackmail. For setting an example to the people of the world of what it means to struggle against overwhelming and more than overwhelming odds and standing firm. To be falsely accused of committing the very crimes that those nations who established the mockery of justice and morality that is the so-called Hague Tribunal are past and current masters of, they and their client states. What Providence delays it not denies, as Shakespeare wrote; and many a time before in history have the accusers become the accused.] Two Yugoslav war crimes suspects to surrender Thursday Tue Apr 30, 6:08 AM ET By DUSAN STOJANOVIC, Associated Press Writer BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - Two Yugoslav war crimes suspects, including a top aide to former President Slobodan Milosevic, will surrender to a U.N. tribunal in the Netherlands on Thursday, the state Tanjug news agency reported Tuesday. The two include a former deputy prime minister, Nikola Sainovic, and a former Bosnian Serb prison official, Momcilo Gruban, Tanjug said, quoting sources in the Justice Ministry. Sainovic was Milosevic's security adviser in charge of Kosovo during NATO's 78-day bombardment of Yugoslavia in 1999. Sainovic was charged along with Milosevic by the U.N. war crimes court tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, for crimes against humanity during a government crackdown against Kosovo Albanians. Some 800,000 of them fled their homes in the province and thousands were killed. Gruban was a warden in the Serb-run Omarska prison camp for Bosnian Muslims during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. He is charged by the tribunal with "murder, sexual harassment and torture" of inmates. Sainovic and Gruban are among five suspects still in Yugoslavia who have said they would voluntarily surrender to The Hague rather than face possible arrest and extradition. A total of 24 Serbs are on the U.N. court's list of suspects wanted for alleged war crimes committed during the Balkan wars in the 1990s. Former Yugoslav army commander Gen. Dragoljub Ojdanic surrendered to The Hague last Thursday. He pleaded innocent Friday to charges of killing ethnic Albanians and driving others from Kosovo, claiming he was fighting terrorists in the disputed Serb province. Yugoslavia's current leadership, which extradited Milosevic to The Hague last year, has been under strong Western pressure to hand over the remaining suspects or risk losing millions of dollars in badly needed U.S. aid. Pro-Western politicians managed earlier this month to get the Yugoslav parliament to enact a law allowing the extraditions. The government then issued a deadline to the wanted men to surrender or face arrest. Among the six who declared their readiness to surrender are former Croatian Serb rebel leader Milan Martic and former army officers Mile Mrksic and Vladimir Kovacevic. Martic's lawyer Strahinja Kastratovic said Tuesday that his client will surrender to The Hague next week. He did not specify the date. Eighteen other suspects listed by the U.N. tribunal — including the most-wanted fugitives — former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his wartime commander Gen. Ratko Mladic — declined to surrender voluntarily and now face possible arrest and extradition, the Justice Ministry has said. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
