[sorabia] Nicholas Ribic claims it was self-defence

[Boba]

So, Canadian government is allowed to break its own law, international law and 
the UN Charter and bomb a foreign country, yet a Canadian citizen [especially 
SERB]is going to be jailed if he defends these laws! 
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http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2008/06/17/5905031.html

  
 
Tue, June 17, 2008 

Ex-city man jailed for taking UN hostages appeals  
Nicholas Ribic claims it was self-defence 
By                                                                              
The Canadian Press 

 
  
TORONTO — Crown lawyers say a Canadian man fighting for Serbia cannot claim 
self-defence to justify kidnapping a UN observer during the war in Bosnia in 
1995. 
Nicholas Ribic, originally from Edmonton, is in the Ontario Court of Appeal to 
contest his conviction in the hostage-taking of Canadian Forces Capt. Patrick 
Rechner 13 years ago. 
Ribic was convicted in an Ottawa courtroom of hostage-taking and threatening 
death — the first time anyone had been convicted under the Criminal Code for 
such a crime abroad. 
Ribic argues the kidnapping was justified under the Criminal Code, which allows 
the use of reasonable force to prevent an assault — in this case, a NATO 
attack. 
The Crown, however, says Ribic had no claim to the munitions depot where 
Rechner was held because he had to break in to access it. 


  
They also argue Ribic’s self-defence argument doesn’t hold water because he had 
less violent means of defence at his disposal. 
Sept. 2005. Ten years after he helped take UN military observers hostage during 
the former Yugoslavia's civil war, a Canadian was sentenced yesterday to three 
years in prison. 


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