http://en.fondsk.ru/article.php?id=1646
en.fondsk.ru
30.09.2008
Alexander MEZYAEV
Acquittal of the International Crime Named “Bosnia and Hercegovina”
The International Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia (ITFYu) came up with a new
important verdict, this time on the proceedings of the case of the former
Bosnia and Hercegovina’s (B&H) Chief of Staff Rasim Delić. The court ruled that
Delić was guilty of failing to take the necessary moves to prevent atrocities
or the punishment of those guilty of cruel treatment of POWs committed by the
Mojaheddin formations in the B&H army, having sentenced him to three years
behind bars. In essence this decision was not only on Deliċ but on the
Mojaheddin (Allah’s Warriors) who arrived to Bosnia from mainly Arab countries
to wage their jihads aiming to exterminate Orthodox Serbian residents with an
eye to establishing a “pure” Islamic Bosnia.
Such an inadequate verdict for military crimes needs not to be commented on.
However, the case of General Delić is much more complicated than the judges
tried to interpret it.
The Rasim Delić case is an outrageous insult of the Serbs that fell victim to
the Bosnia aggression and an insult of common sense. During the process against
him to prove the bias of the ITFYu towards the parties of the process Slobodan
Milosevic asked one of the witnesses: ”How many Bosnians has this court
prosecuted?” Hasty to prevent the witness from giving an answer judge R.May
retorted:”This court has no case against Bosnians, so there can be no verdicts
against them!” Only after that the judge realised how stupid it was of him to
butt in. “That is exactly the problem, Mr.May,” S.Milosevic answered.
Indeed, in 2003, in the 7th year of its operation, the International Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia not only condemned any of Bosnians but it even did
not bring charges against them. The fact served as an irrefutable evidence of
the ITFYu’s prejudice, so it was decided to urgently make accusations against a
small number of Bosnians, Albanians and Macedonians, including Delić. However,
the accusations were expressively insulting to Serbs. First, the accusations
were made against persons of the lower and medium status. Second, the
accusations were made in regard of insignificant crimes (as compared to the
major ones). Third, these accusations dealt with crimes committed mostly
against other parties than the principal victims of the Yugoslav conflict,
Serbs, but rather against other parties. And finally, all those accused were
effectively acquitted or indicted on one or two insignificant points with
laughable punishments. The most telling examples
include the cases of Nasser Orić and Ramush Haradinai. Facts of mass crimes
committed by Orić and his gang against Serbian civil population (with
exceptionally cruel murders of women, children and old people) were well-known
as early as in 1991. Orić was eeven proud of his murders. Nevertheless, the
ITFYu’s prosecutor’s office blatantly charged him with several minor episodes
of cruel treatment of several inmates of the concentration camps Orić
controlled. During the process the prosecutors made everything they could to
not plead Orić guilty. As a result Orić was fully acquitted. Even assuming the
prosecutor’s office really “failed” to prove Orić’s personal guilt for the
crimes his men committed in concentration camps, the stance the court took was
most surprising. It did not even questioned Orić’s right to set up
concentration camps and control them! Such an insult of justice fits the
general trend of the ITFYu’s activities.
In April, 2008 the tribunal decided on the case of another bandit, former
prime-minister of the “independent” Kosovo R.Haradinai. Based on the same
scheme and against the background of the murder of dozens of thousands of Serbs
on his orders and personally by himself (which he stated in his book), the
ITFYu’s prosecutor’s office charged him with just several minor episodes that
also had nothing to do with murder – it was all about cruel treatment of
inmates of the concentration camps. And again – a total acquittal! Again - not
a word about the gangster premier’s right to set up concentration camps for
Serbs. In a recently published book former ITFYu’s Chief Prosecutor Carla del
Ponte wrote that even judges themselves took fright of the Kosovo bandits, and
most of all, Haradinai. The real reasons for the acquittals of Orić and
Haradinai are evident. Anxious to pull through its version of the alleged
genocide against Muslims in
Srebrenića, the ITFYu simply could not indict Orić. Otherwise the events at
Srebrenića would have looked totally different. There was genocide there in
July of 1995, but it was not the genocide of Serbs against Muslims. The
four-year long genocide (1992-1995) was the time when Muslims committed it
against Serbs. The same is true of Kosovo.
The case of Rasim Delić fits in this scheme perfectly. As the ITFYu (or its
masters, to be precise) argue that Serbs are the principal culprits of the
conflict in Bosnia, whereas Bosnians were just innocent victims, who may have
been guilty only of something insignificant. Therefore the bill of Delić’s
indictment did not mention any crimes except those committed by the Mojaheddin.
This means that for the ITFYu the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H)
committed no crimes at all. The “episodes” in the document were selected to
prove that everyone suffered on the hands of Mojaheddin – both Croats and
Serbs. And the deliberately selected episodes were almost insignificant: “the
killing of 24 Croatian troops”, “cruel treatment of 12 POWs”, “the cruel
treatment of 10 camp inmates” and so forth. Of course, the killing of 24 people
and cruel treatment of POWs are grave crimes, but why did the ITFYu “fail to
notice” the mass killings of
dozens of thousands of peaceful Serbs, for which the “army” of Bosnia and
Herzegovina rather than a bunch of Mojaheddin was responsible. Viewed against
this background the charges against the head of the B&H army for the crimes
committed by the Mojaheddin appear outrageously unjust, freeing him of
responsibility for the committal of the gravest crimes. All this can be
compared with the situation when a serial killer is charged with … illegal
ownership of arms, with the judges trying to prove that the killer had the
legal right to own the arms.
The gravest crime for which Delić should be indicted is his participation in
the coup d’etat in the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia resulting in
a mass bloodshed of peaceful population, his role in establishing and later –
controlling illegal armed groups that for some strange reason were referred to
as “the B&H army” that committed mass military crimes. However, the tribunal
could not charge him on this account, given that its masters, the United States
and other NATO member-states were also the organizers and accomplices in the
crimes committed by the so-called army of the so-called Republic of Bosnia and
Herzegovina. In its wording of the bill of Delić’s indictment, the Hague
tribunal blessed both the criminal formation of the B&H and the criminal
formation of its “army.” Should the Chamber of Appeals finally fail to acquit
Delić (which is very likely), he may pay for the court’s acquittal of the gross
international
crime named “Bosnia and Herzegovina” and his personal contribution to the
military crimes against the Serbian nation by just three years behind bars.
In its verdict the court decided that even though Delić controlled the gangs of
Mojaheddin (as “formations of the B&H army”) he was unaware of the crimes
listed in the bill of indictment – and even had no grounds to assume that such
crimes had been committed! Moreover, the court excluded from this curtailed
verdict everything except for a single episode of “cruel treatment of POWs”!
This way the ITFYu has contributed to “the historical chronicles of the Balkans
conflict” as its activities are referred to in the West, with its entry to the
effect that the B&H army never committed a single crime except for “cruelty
against 12 POWs”, for which stray Mojaheddin were responsible.
Similar to the cases of Orić and Haradinai, the prosecutors were not too
insistent on proving anything. Its request for not trying the case of Delić by
the tribunal (as insignificant!) and transferring it instead to the courts of…
Bosnia is really telling! The court did not treat the defendant seriously.
Delić was not even taken to custody before the court proceedings started. More
than that, they let him go home for New Year’s holidays.
But still, even though the process was expressively defective, the records of
court proceedings keep evidence of the atrocities the Mojaheddin formations in
the B&H army committed. They contain descriptions of exceptionally brutal
torture and methods of killing, with many witnesses speaking about the cut-off
heads of Orthodox Serbs and the things “the warriors of Allah” did with those
heads. There is evidence of Al Qaeda’s dispatching groups of Mojaheddin to
Bosnia. There is evidence that not only Mojaheddin committed these crimes.
Delić was not held responsible for anything. We believe that history will give
its due to the Hague tribunal itself not only for its official decisions, but
also for its refusal to indict those who organised and perpetrated the genocide
of the Serbian nation in 1922-1995.
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