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    Mladic slams UN court as biased against him

    By MIKE CORDER | Associated Press – Thu, Feb 23, 2012

    THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic slammed the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Thursday as a puppet of NATO, calling it "biased" against him and other Serbs.

    Mladic also held up photographs of his family, before a guard grabbed them after the 69-year-old former general was told by Presiding Judge Alphons Orie to stop waving them at the public gallery.

    Mladic, brandishing a photo of himself in his old Bosnian Serb army uniform, said he was "proud of that army and uniform," and that his wife should be allowed to bring it to him — presumably to wear in court.

    Mladic is accused of masterminding Serb atrocities throughout the 1992-95 Bosnian war that left an estimated 100,000 people dead. Most of the killings are blamed on Serb soldiers and paramilitaries under his command.

    He denies 11 charges, including two counts of genocide. His trial is scheduled to start May 14.

    The tribunal was set up by the United Nations Security Council, but Mladic and his former political master Radovan Karadzic have often portrayed it as an extension of NATO and accused the military alliance of unfairly targeting Serbs.

    "You are trying me on behalf of NATO, you are trying me and my people," he told Orie. "You are a biased NATO court."

    Such arguments carry no weight with judges and are more likely aimed at audiences who still follow the legal proceedings back in Serbia and Bosnia.

    Alluding to his failing health, Mladic told Orie he was "an old man ... nearing my end" and said he was not "trying to put on a circus," before launching into a disjointed rant.

    Mladic has suffered at least one stroke during his 16 years as a fugitive. His speech is slurred, and his right hand and arm both appear to have been weakened — Mladic repeatedly flexed the arm during the 90-minute hearing, as if performing exercises.

    Mladic also accused NATO of "striking against poor people in Africa and Asia" and said the alliance "has reared its head and when they strike Iran it will be the end."

    Orie finally cut him short by turning off Mladic's microphone and adjourning the hearing with Mladic still standing and gesturing at his attorney.

     

    11 comments

    • S
      S  •  3 mths ago
      Meanwhile the Islamic Kosovars who kidnapped Serb civilians to harvest their organs for sale to wealthy European recipients are still backed by NATO troops. Germany had a hard time subdueing Yugoslavia in WW2, but....now their back. Stop the NATO War Machine!
    • Dicky
      Dicky  •  3 mths ago
      Serbs were fighting the War On Terror a decade before 9/11, and nazis also just like in WWII!
    • Dicky
      Dicky  •  3 mths ago
      The NY Times knows more about the nazi jihad Izetbegovic than the lying nazi jihadist troll below me.LOL

      Alija Izetbegovic, Muslim Who Led Bosnia, Dies at 78
      NY Times October 20 2003
      During World War II, when Bosnia became part of the puppet-Nazi state of the Croatian Ustashe, Mr. Izetbegovic joined the Young Muslims, a group torn between siding with the German-sponsored Handzar divisions organized by the German SS or with the Yugoslav Communist partisans led by Josip Broz Tito. Mr. Izetbegovic supported the Handzars.
      After Tito's Communist government was established in 1946, a military court sentenced Mr. Izetbegovic to three years in prison for his wartime activities.
    • Jack
      Jack  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 mths ago
      What #$%$ is saying is true!
      • Dicky
        Dicky 3 mths ago
        I accidently gave you a thumb down. sorry. The Serbs were railroaded there and with Kosovo.
    • Dicky
      Dicky  •  3 mths ago
      The Hague is a Kangaroo court against the Serbs as admitted by Hague prosecutor Carla Del Ponte.

      The Hague, Clinton,Albright,Cohen,Clark, etc should all be tried for war crimes, and fabrication of and obfuscation of evidence to find guilty, the Serbs, instead of the jihadists.

      search
      Revelations in Carla del Ponte's book
    • Muslim Bosniak Handschar
      Muslim Bosniak Handschar  •  3 mths ago
      Alija Izetbegovic was born on 8 August 1925. World War two started on September 1st 1939. So according to that serbian christian smurf down there Alija was a Nazi with 14 years? No Kidding. He must have played a major role in WW2.
      • Dicky
        Dicky 3 mths ago
        Punked again you lying nazi jihadist! LOL you are such a stupid & terrible little keyboard terrorist. LOL How old would Izetbegovic be in 1943/ 18 you dumb nazi terrorist. I always clown you, clown boy
    • Dicky
      Dicky  •  3 mths ago
      In 1991, before the conflict erupted, the English edition of the (radical Bosnian Muslim leader& ex-nazi) Alija Izetbegovic's Islamic Declaration (1970) was published in Sarajevo.
      It specifically stated: "There can be neither peace nor coexistence between Arabia, the cradle of Islam and non-Islamic social and political institutions."
      And his conclusion affirmed: The Islamic movement must, and can, take over power as soon as it is morally and numerically so strong that it can not only destroy the existing non- Islamic power, but also build up a new Islamic one’.
    • Dicky
      Dicky  •  3 mths ago
      Pin a medal on him and put on trial the Clinton Administration, NATO, and the kangaroos of the Hague for obfuscation of evidence, perjury, and supporting jihad terrorists. Add in the illegal bombing, and these should put the whole gang of jihad supporters behind bars for the rest of their miserable lives. Thank you Serbs for fighting nazis, muslim invasions, and jihads for hundreds of years.

      The people know that General Mladic was fighting jihad terrorists who were receiving money, weapons, jihad training, and jihadists from Iran and Saudi Arabia, terrorists groups well known to the West now, but not in the 90's when the US/EU/NATO were helping them. Those terrorists groups named Al-qaeda, Hezbollah, and Mujhadeens are now known to most western peoples. What was tried to be covered up and suppressed by the Ministries of Truth in most western nations, is that those terrorists groups were the allies and friends of US/EU/NATO in the Balkans from the 90's to the present.
    • Muslim Bosniak Handschar
      Muslim Bosniak Handschar  •  3 mths ago
      DIE!
    • one of the only smart one ...
      one of the only smart one ...  •  3 mths ago
      poor baby oops i mean murdering swine....
    • Eugene
      Eugene  •  East Berlin, Pennsylvania  •  3 mths ago
      Sure this guy is a Cetnik јerk and such, but he is right, where are such tribunals for the UCK and Ustase?
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