27 May 2011

Mladic Busted, Headed for Trial

Mladic is headed for trial, and will likely finally answer for war crimes 15 years ago.

After spending a night in jail, Mladic was due back in a Belgrade court on Friday for a hearing on his extradition to a U.N. war crimes tribunal.
The Bosnian Serb wartime army commander is facing international war crimes charges, including the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.
A Thursday extradition hearing was adjourned due to what Mladic's lawyer claimed was his poor health.
Serbian war crimes prosecutors say the health issue appears to be a tactic to delay his extradition to the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.


In a day full of irony (see PATRIOT Act article below), Mladic is headed for trial in the same country whose peacekeepers were completely useless at Srebrenica.

By: Brant

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