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Thursday, April 25, 2002
THE BALKANS QUAGMIRE
U.S.-led forces desecrate Serbian church?
Letter to Bush protests alleged violence by
peacekeeping troops
Posted: April 25, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Aleksandar Pavic
The Serbian Orthodox Church is charging the
peacekeeping force in Bosnia with violently
desecrating church property in its search for suspects
wanted by the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague.
In an April 11 letter addressed to U.S. President
Bush, Gen. John B. Sylvester, commander of the SFOR
peacekeeping force in Bosnia, and Bosnian High
Commissioner Wolfgang Petritsch, the Serbian Church
protested the behavior of U.S.-led troops.
Written by Serb Patriarch Pavle in the name of the
Holy Synod of Bishops, the letter refers to
"enormously unpleasant situations which the faithful
of the Serbian Orthodox Church experienced on Feb. 28
and March 1, 2002, when the soldiers of the SFOR
peacekeeping forces violently burst into these
villages claiming to search for [former Bosnian
political and military leader] Radovan Karadzic. They
used explosive and other objects to smash doors and
barge into houses, ambulances and even schools."
Even though U.S. officials have express opposition to
the newly ratified International Criminal Court, there
is an urgency to round up people in Bosnia wanted for
alleged war crimes to stand trial in another
international court, the Hague Tribunal. U.S. War
Crimes Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper, on April 18,
traveled to Bosnia to inform the Serb leadership that
"there would be no economic or political progress in
Republika Srpska (the Serb part of Bosnia)" until
Karadzic and Ratko Mladic stood trial at The Hague. He
went on to say that "Republika Srpska risked falling
behind other countries for not cooperating with the
Hague Tribunal" and that its "citizens would continue
suffering while Radovan Karadzic was free."
In addition, the U.S. administration has continued
applying economic and political pressure against
neighboring Yugoslavia, compelling it to pass an
unconstitutional law that sets the rules for
"cooperation with The Hague" and to issue arrest
warrants against alleged Hague suspects.
The intensified search for suspects in Bosnia has
caused Karadzic to resurface from his seven-year exile
to protest the methods used in the hunt.
The letter goes on to say that the Serbian Orthodox
Church is "shocked and appalled by the behavior of the
SFOR soldiers to innocent civilians, especially by
their violent entering the Church of the Dormition of
the Most Holy Mother of God at Celebici, with weapons,
where they scattered sacral objects in the altar and
smashed the glass within the chalice [used] for giving
the Holy Communion to priests and people. ... The
Church in which our faithful pray to God, receive the
Holy Communion, are christened and married has been
desecrated. Religious feelings of our faithful, their
human dignity and safety have been violated." The
letter concludes with an appeal that "measures be
taken so that nothing similar should ever happen
again."
This is not the first time that the Serbian Church has
appealed to Western leaders to stop the threat to its
churches. Since the NATO-led KFOR troops came to the
Serbian province of Kosovo after the bombing of
Yugoslavia in June 1999, more than 100 Orthodox
churches have been damaged or destroyed by Albanian
Islamicists in the presence of the 50,000-plus-strong
Western military forces.
In the April 24 edition of the Belgrade weekly
Nedeljni Telegraf, ran a letter written by Karadzic to
Kosta Cavoski, a close friend and leading Yugoslav
legal authority and Hague opponent, in which he says
that he has been "earnestly trying to avoid an
encounter with the SFOR troops for the past seven
years ... and that it would be better if Gen.
Sylvester did the same, [for] in that encounter I may
not pass very well and would probably pass very badly
in the technical sense, but I would certainly be the
winner in the moral sense."
Sylvester, continues Karadzic, "could come out the
winner only if we don't meet, that is, if he refuses
the role of policeman and bounty hunter."
Karadzic also expresses his wonder as to "why Gen.
Sylvester wants to equate his soldiers with cruel
bounty hunters" and whether his soldiers' parents know
that "their children break into houses of our innocent
civilians in the middle of the night and frighten our
children, who fall unconscious" from shock.
Referring to the "tribunal" that is hunting him,
Karadzic goes on to ask "what kind of court and
prosecution is it that first arrests and only then
compiles evidence ... which has held our speaker of
the House, who has had no role in the executive
branch, in detention without trial for two years,"
further wondering whether "such things are allowed in
Gen. Sylvester's country."
Finally, Karadzic wonders whether "President Bush,
Gen. Sylvester's supreme commander, knows that his
general writes letters of blackmail in which he
threatens innocent civilians."
The last is in reference to an April 8 letter written
by Sylvester to another Bosnian Serb, Zvonko Bajagic,
in which he urges him to "appeal to your friend
Radovan Karadzic to give himself up" to the Hague
Tribunal or be faced with the possibility of "legal
complications resulting in a thorough and expensive
investigation that might cause you financial and
emotional hardship and suffering."
Karadzic is being sought by the Tribunal for allegedly
taking part in the organization of a "massacre" of
Bosnian Muslims in the "U.N. demilitarized zone" in
Srebrenica in July 1995. This is also one of the main
charges facing former Yugoslav leader Slobodan
Milosevic, who is currently standing trial in The
Hague.
Last week, the publication of the results of a
five-year long official Dutch inquiry into the events
taking place in Srebrenica caused the resignation of
the entire Dutch government. In a section dealing with
the work of various foreign intelligence agencies
during the Bosnian conflict, the report implicates the
Pentagon with, among other things, supporting the
airlift of Iranian and Turkish armaments financed with
Saudi Arabian money into the "demilitarized" Muslim
enclave of Srebrenica just before its fall to Bosnian
Serb forces.
As quoted by the London Guardian, the report also
states that the CIA was opposed to the Pentagon policy
of allying with "radical Islamist groups from the
Middle East, some of the same groups that the Pentagon
is now fighting in 'the war against terrorism,'
[including] Afghan mujahedin and Hezbollah."
Back in June 1998, in an interview given to the
Bosnian weekly "Dani," the former police chief of
Srebrenica went so far as to implicate former
President Clinton in offering to stage the fall of
Srebrenica in order to ensure a NATO intervention.
Apparently, former Muslim Islamic leader Alija
Izetbegovic, told him at a 1993 meeting that "[y]ou
know, I was offered by Clinton in April 1993 ... that
the Chetnik [Serb] forces enter Srebrenica, carry out
a slaughter of 5,000 Muslims, and then there will be a
military intervention."
Aleksandar Pavic in Belgrade covers Yugoslavia for
WorldNetDaily.com.
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+++ Karadzic veröffentlicht Brief
BELGRAD, 24. April 2002. Der ehemalige Präsident
von Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadzic, hat es,
sich dem UNO-Tribunal zu stellen. In einem
Schreiben an den Belgrader Juraprofessor Kosta
Cavoski, weist Karadzic die diesbezüglich
wiederholt an ihn gerichteten Appelle des
Kommandanten der NATO-Truppen in Bosnien, John
Sylvester, zurück.
"Ich kann seine Appelle, mich selbst zu stellen,
nicht akzeptieren. Dieses Tribunal wurde nicht
nur gesetzwidrig gegründet, sondern wird auch
der Grund für die Beschämung des anständigen
Teils des Westens sein, der dahinter steht",
heißt es im ersten öffentlichen Schreiben
Karadzics seit sechs Jahren. Der frühere
serbische Oppositionsführer Cavoski ist Leiter
eines in Belgrad gründeten "Ausschusses für
Wahrheit über Karadzic". ( www.karadzic.org )
Der Ex-Präsident der Republika Srpska hat
gleichzeitig an den amerikanischen General
Sylvester gewandt. Sylvester hat in den letzten
Wochen die Familie Karadzic sowie einige Freunde
stark unter Druck gesetzt und zum Teil auch
bedroht. "Der Familie und den Freunden des
El-Kaida-Führers Osama bin Laden wird nicht
gedroht, was schön ist, während meinen Freunden
und meiner Familie gedroht wird, wenngleich ich
in keiner Hinsicht je ein Feind der Heimat von
General Sylvester war. Ganz im Gegenteil, ich
war Stipendiat dieses Landes und verbrachte dort
ein Studienjahr", präzisierte Karadzic.
Karadzic kommentiert in seinem Brief auch das
Untersuchungsergebnis einer niederländischen
Kommission, die sich mit dem Fall Srebrenica
befasst hatte. Die Feststellung des Institutes,
dass die Rolle von Radovan Karadzic bei den
Kämpfen um Srebrenica ungeklärt geblieben sei,
bedeute, dass es eine solche Rolle gar nicht
gegeben habe, so Karadzic. Karadzic hat dem
französischen Außenministerium vorgeworfen, den
Fall von Srebrenica bereits im Frühjahr 1993
geplant zu haben. Das angebliche Massaker sei im
Westen vereinbart und geplant worden, um als
Anlass für ein militärisches Eingreifen zu
dienen, welches Ende August und Anfang September
1995 erfolgte, erklärte Karadzic weiter.
In Belgrad war am Montag ein von Karadzic
verfasstes Buch der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert
worden.
STIMME KOSOVOS / AMSELFELD.COM
--- In This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , "Miroslav Antic" wrote:
SFOR odgovara na pismo Radovana Karadzica
Pismo nije mudar potez
Ako Radovan Karadzic smatra da nije kriv porucujem mu da se preda
lokalnim vlastima i svoj slucaj brani pred Haskim tribunalom. Dok se
to ne desi SFOR ce nastaviti sa svojim aktivnostima sve dok ga ne
uhapsi i izvede pred lice pravde, izjavio je za banjalucke "Nezavisne
novine" portparol SFOR Skot Landi odgovarajuci na pismo koje je bivsi
predsjednik RS Radovan Karadzic uputio Kosti Cavoskom.
Po Landiju za Karadzica nije mudar izbor to sto ne pomislja na
predaju, kako je porucio u pismu. To je njegov izbor, iako nije mudar.
Istina je da SFOR trenutno ne zna gdje se nalazi Karadzic, ali je
sigurno da ce on prvi saznati da smo ga otkrili, rekao je Landi i
ponovo pozvao bivseg predsjednika RS da se preda ako smatra da nije
uradio nista pogresno i da pred Tribunalom dokaze, da li je ili nije
kriv, rekao je portparol SFOR.
Za poruku koju je Karadzic uputio generalu Dzonu Silvesteru da ce iz
susreta s njim izaci kao moralni pobjednik, Landi kaze: Svako moze
pobijediti, ali za Karadzica je moralna pobjeda izlazak pred sud i
prilika da predstavi svoj slucaj. Sve dok se to ne desi SFOR ce
nastojati da pritvori Karadzica, kaze on.
On je odbacio optuzbe koje je Karadzic uputio u pismu na racun
generala Dzona Silvestera da SFOR uznemirava njegove prijatelje i
porodicu.
Koristimo razna metode i pristupe da sve optuzene za ratne zlocine
privedemo pred lice pravde, pa i Karadzica. Pismo koje je general
Silvester nedavno isporucio bliskom prijatelju Radovana Karadzica je
samo jedna od tih metoda, rekao je Landi. On je rekao da SFOR niti
ucjenjuje Karadzica, niti prijeti njegovim prijeteljima. Landi je
izrazio nadu da ce se Radovan Karadzic i drugi optuzeni za ratne
zlocine do oktobra naci u Hagu.
NEZAVISNE NOVINE, 25. april 2002.
Karadzic se oglasio pismom, ne pomislja na predaju
Bivsi predsednik Republike Srpske Radovan Karadzic, optuzen za ratne
zlocine tokom rata u Bosni, porucio je da ne prihvata apele za predaju
Haskom tribunalu, ocenjujuci da je on "nelegalno osnovan" i da ce ga
se Zapad "stideti".
Karadzic se oglasio pismom koje je 17. aprila uputio profesoru
beogradskog Pravnog fakulteta i predsedniku Medjunarodnog komiteta za
istinu o Radovanu Karadzicu, Kosti Cavoskom, a koje objavljuje
beogradski "Nedeljni telegraf" u najnovijem broju.
U pismu, Karadzic protestuje zbog, kako navodi, pretnji i ucena, koje
clanovima njegove porodice i prijateljima upucuje komandant Sfora
americki general DZon Silvester.
"Porodici i prijateljima vodje Al Kaide se ne preti, i to je lepo, a
preti se mojim prijateljima i mojoj porodici, iako na nikad ni u kom
pogledu nisam bio neprijatelj domovine generala Silvestera", naveo je
Karadzic.
O Haskom tribunalu, koji ga tereti za ratne zlocine u BiH, bivsi
predsednik RS navodi da se u tom sudu "moze naci svaki Srbin, bez
obzira na odgovornost i krivicu".
"Taj Tribunal ne samo sto je nelegalno osnovan, nego ce biti razlog za
stid pristojnog dela Zapada, koji sada stoji iza njega. Pitao bih
generala Silvestera kakav je to sud, a pre svega tuzilastvo, koje prvo
hapsi, pa onda prikuplja dokaze? I koje hapsi i potrazuje civilni i
vojni vrh svih srpskih drzavnih entiteta i izjednacava ga sa obicnim
kriminalcima iz drugih nacionalnih zajednica i entiteta", pita se
Karadzic.
U pismu Karadzic optuzuje Sfor, odnosno njegovog komandanta, za
krsenje mandata i porucuje mu da je bolje da se njih dvojica nikada ne
sretnu.
"Po tom mandatu, gospodin general bi mogao da me uhapsi samo ako bi me
njegovi vojnici slucajno sreli tokom svojih uobicajenih aktivnosti.
Vec sedmu godinu ja se svojski trudim da do tog susreta ne dodje, a
bilo bi bolje da tako radi i general Silvester. Naime, u tom susretu
ja bih mogao proci i ovako i onako, u tehnickom pogledu verovatno bih
prosao vrlo lose, ali u moralnom bih sigurno bio pobednik", naveo je
Karadzic.
On je istakao da je "vojska generala Silvestera" u RS i BiH pre svega
zbog njegovog (Karadzicevog) parafa na Dejtonskom sporazumu i podvukao
da "na srpskim teritorijama nijedan regularan vojnik generala
Silvestera i vojne alijanse ciji je on oficir, nije nastradao ni za
vreme rata, ni nakon njega".
"Mi smo zbog toga srecni, a to je moguce samo zbog neizmerne dobrote i
trpeljivosti ovoga naroda ovde koji razlikuje prave vojnike, koji su
necija deca, od okrutnih lovaca na ucene, koje ne cenimo vise nego sto
je uobicajeno", naveo je Karadzic u pismu Kosti Cavoskom.
Bivsi predsednik RS posebno je kritikivao neke politicke snage u
Srbiji.
"I medju Srbima nema trpeljivijih Srba od 'bosanskih' Srba, koje je
samo krajnja nevolja mogla naterati da se brane, pa im sada tesko pada
kada u matici, cak i marginalne politicke snage drze da smo mi ovde
krvozedni i nesmireni divljaci. A kad bi htele, i te marginalne
politicke snage, mogle bi znati istinu i odgovorno se odnositi prema
njoj", pise Karadzic.
Na kraju pisma Karadzic porucuje komandantu Sfora da ostavi na miru i
da "ne terorise" njegove stare prijatelje.
"U medjuvremenu sam stekao hiljade novih prijatelja, za koje moji
progonitelji ne znaju. I svakim danom imam ih sve vise. Nije neophodno
da sam u dva-tri sela u RS, jer smo ostali u Bosni kao celini, pa
zasto bih se ja odricao cele Bosne? Mozda su nas i ostavili u Bosni da
bi ona jednog dana cela bila nasa", porucio je Karadzic u pismu.
BETA
--- End forwarded message ---
Thursday, April 25, 2002
THE BALKANS QUAGMIRE
U.S.-led forces desecrate Serbian church?
Letter to Bush protests alleged violence by
peacekeeping troops
Posted: April 25, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Aleksandar Pavic
The Serbian Orthodox Church is charging the
peacekeeping force in Bosnia with violently
desecrating church property in its search for suspects
wanted by the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague.
In an April 11 letter addressed to U.S. President
Bush, Gen. John B. Sylvester, commander of the SFOR
peacekeeping force in Bosnia, and Bosnian High
Commissioner Wolfgang Petritsch, the Serbian Church
protested the behavior of U.S.-led troops.
Written by Serb Patriarch Pavle in the name of the
Holy Synod of Bishops, the letter refers to
"enormously unpleasant situations which the faithful
of the Serbian Orthodox Church experienced on Feb. 28
and March 1, 2002, when the soldiers of the SFOR
peacekeeping forces violently burst into these
villages claiming to search for [former Bosnian
political and military leader] Radovan Karadzic. They
used explosive and other objects to smash doors and
barge into houses, ambulances and even schools."
Even though U.S. officials have express opposition to
the newly ratified International Criminal Court, there
is an urgency to round up people in Bosnia wanted for
alleged war crimes to stand trial in another
international court, the Hague Tribunal. U.S. War
Crimes Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper, on April 18,
traveled to Bosnia to inform the Serb leadership that
"there would be no economic or political progress in
Republika Srpska (the Serb part of Bosnia)" until
Karadzic and Ratko Mladic stood trial at The Hague. He
went on to say that "Republika Srpska risked falling
behind other countries for not cooperating with the
Hague Tribunal" and that its "citizens would continue
suffering while Radovan Karadzic was free."
In addition, the U.S. administration has continued
applying economic and political pressure against
neighboring Yugoslavia, compelling it to pass an
unconstitutional law that sets the rules for
"cooperation with The Hague" and to issue arrest
warrants against alleged Hague suspects.
The intensified search for suspects in Bosnia has
caused Karadzic to resurface from his seven-year exile
to protest the methods used in the hunt.
The letter goes on to say that the Serbian Orthodox
Church is "shocked and appalled by the behavior of the
SFOR soldiers to innocent civilians, especially by
their violent entering the Church of the Dormition of
the Most Holy Mother of God at Celebici, with weapons,
where they scattered sacral objects in the altar and
smashed the glass within the chalice [used] for giving
the Holy Communion to priests and people. ... The
Church in which our faithful pray to God, receive the
Holy Communion, are christened and married has been
desecrated. Religious feelings of our faithful, their
human dignity and safety have been violated." The
letter concludes with an appeal that "measures be
taken so that nothing similar should ever happen
again."
This is not the first time that the Serbian Church has
appealed to Western leaders to stop the threat to its
churches. Since the NATO-led KFOR troops came to the
Serbian province of Kosovo after the bombing of
Yugoslavia in June 1999, more than 100 Orthodox
churches have been damaged or destroyed by Albanian
Islamicists in the presence of the 50,000-plus-strong
Western military forces.
In the April 24 edition of the Belgrade weekly
Nedeljni Telegraf, ran a letter written by Karadzic to
Kosta Cavoski, a close friend and leading Yugoslav
legal authority and Hague opponent, in which he says
that he has been "earnestly trying to avoid an
encounter with the SFOR troops for the past seven
years ... and that it would be better if Gen.
Sylvester did the same, [for] in that encounter I may
not pass very well and would probably pass very badly
in the technical sense, but I would certainly be the
winner in the moral sense."
Sylvester, continues Karadzic, "could come out the
winner only if we don't meet, that is, if he refuses
the role of policeman and bounty hunter."
Karadzic also expresses his wonder as to "why Gen.
Sylvester wants to equate his soldiers with cruel
bounty hunters" and whether his soldiers' parents know
that "their children break into houses of our innocent
civilians in the middle of the night and frighten our
children, who fall unconscious" from shock.
Referring to the "tribunal" that is hunting him,
Karadzic goes on to ask "what kind of court and
prosecution is it that first arrests and only then
compiles evidence ... which has held our speaker of
the House, who has had no role in the executive
branch, in detention without trial for two years,"
further wondering whether "such things are allowed in
Gen. Sylvester's country."
Finally, Karadzic wonders whether "President Bush,
Gen. Sylvester's supreme commander, knows that his
general writes letters of blackmail in which he
threatens innocent civilians."
The last is in reference to an April 8 letter written
by Sylvester to another Bosnian Serb, Zvonko Bajagic,
in which he urges him to "appeal to your friend
Radovan Karadzic to give himself up" to the Hague
Tribunal or be faced with the possibility of "legal
complications resulting in a thorough and expensive
investigation that might cause you financial and
emotional hardship and suffering."
Karadzic is being sought by the Tribunal for allegedly
taking part in the organization of a "massacre" of
Bosnian Muslims in the "U.N. demilitarized zone" in
Srebrenica in July 1995. This is also one of the main
charges facing former Yugoslav leader Slobodan
Milosevic, who is currently standing trial in The
Hague.
Last week, the publication of the results of a
five-year long official Dutch inquiry into the events
taking place in Srebrenica caused the resignation of
the entire Dutch government. In a section dealing with
the work of various foreign intelligence agencies
during the Bosnian conflict, the report implicates the
Pentagon with, among other things, supporting the
airlift of Iranian and Turkish armaments financed with
Saudi Arabian money into the "demilitarized" Muslim
enclave of Srebrenica just before its fall to Bosnian
Serb forces.
As quoted by the London Guardian, the report also
states that the CIA was opposed to the Pentagon policy
of allying with "radical Islamist groups from the
Middle East, some of the same groups that the Pentagon
is now fighting in 'the war against terrorism,'
[including] Afghan mujahedin and Hezbollah."
Back in June 1998, in an interview given to the
Bosnian weekly "Dani," the former police chief of
Srebrenica went so far as to implicate former
President Clinton in offering to stage the fall of
Srebrenica in order to ensure a NATO intervention.
Apparently, former Muslim Islamic leader Alija
Izetbegovic, told him at a 1993 meeting that "[y]ou
know, I was offered by Clinton in April 1993 ... that
the Chetnik [Serb] forces enter Srebrenica, carry out
a slaughter of 5,000 Muslims, and then there will be a
military intervention."
Aleksandar Pavic in Belgrade covers Yugoslavia for
WorldNetDaily.com.
-------------------
+++ Karadzic veröffentlicht Brief
BELGRAD, 24. April 2002. Der ehemalige Präsident
von Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadzic, hat es,
sich dem UNO-Tribunal zu stellen. In einem
Schreiben an den Belgrader Juraprofessor Kosta
Cavoski, weist Karadzic die diesbezüglich
wiederholt an ihn gerichteten Appelle des
Kommandanten der NATO-Truppen in Bosnien, John
Sylvester, zurück.
"Ich kann seine Appelle, mich selbst zu stellen,
nicht akzeptieren. Dieses Tribunal wurde nicht
nur gesetzwidrig gegründet, sondern wird auch
der Grund für die Beschämung des anständigen
Teils des Westens sein, der dahinter steht",
heißt es im ersten öffentlichen Schreiben
Karadzics seit sechs Jahren. Der frühere
serbische Oppositionsführer Cavoski ist Leiter
eines in Belgrad gründeten "Ausschusses für
Wahrheit über Karadzic". ( www.karadzic.org )
Der Ex-Präsident der Republika Srpska hat
gleichzeitig an den amerikanischen General
Sylvester gewandt. Sylvester hat in den letzten
Wochen die Familie Karadzic sowie einige Freunde
stark unter Druck gesetzt und zum Teil auch
bedroht. "Der Familie und den Freunden des
El-Kaida-Führers Osama bin Laden wird nicht
gedroht, was schön ist, während meinen Freunden
und meiner Familie gedroht wird, wenngleich ich
in keiner Hinsicht je ein Feind der Heimat von
General Sylvester war. Ganz im Gegenteil, ich
war Stipendiat dieses Landes und verbrachte dort
ein Studienjahr", präzisierte Karadzic.
Karadzic kommentiert in seinem Brief auch das
Untersuchungsergebnis einer niederländischen
Kommission, die sich mit dem Fall Srebrenica
befasst hatte. Die Feststellung des Institutes,
dass die Rolle von Radovan Karadzic bei den
Kämpfen um Srebrenica ungeklärt geblieben sei,
bedeute, dass es eine solche Rolle gar nicht
gegeben habe, so Karadzic. Karadzic hat dem
französischen Außenministerium vorgeworfen, den
Fall von Srebrenica bereits im Frühjahr 1993
geplant zu haben. Das angebliche Massaker sei im
Westen vereinbart und geplant worden, um als
Anlass für ein militärisches Eingreifen zu
dienen, welches Ende August und Anfang September
1995 erfolgte, erklärte Karadzic weiter.
In Belgrad war am Montag ein von Karadzic
verfasstes Buch der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert
worden.
STIMME KOSOVOS / AMSELFELD.COM
--- In This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , "Miroslav Antic" wrote:
SFOR odgovara na pismo Radovana Karadzica
Pismo nije mudar potez
Ako Radovan Karadzic smatra da nije kriv porucujem mu da se preda
lokalnim vlastima i svoj slucaj brani pred Haskim tribunalom. Dok se
to ne desi SFOR ce nastaviti sa svojim aktivnostima sve dok ga ne
uhapsi i izvede pred lice pravde, izjavio je za banjalucke "Nezavisne
novine" portparol SFOR Skot Landi odgovarajuci na pismo koje je bivsi
predsjednik RS Radovan Karadzic uputio Kosti Cavoskom.
Po Landiju za Karadzica nije mudar izbor to sto ne pomislja na
predaju, kako je porucio u pismu. To je njegov izbor, iako nije mudar.
Istina je da SFOR trenutno ne zna gdje se nalazi Karadzic, ali je
sigurno da ce on prvi saznati da smo ga otkrili, rekao je Landi i
ponovo pozvao bivseg predsjednika RS da se preda ako smatra da nije
uradio nista pogresno i da pred Tribunalom dokaze, da li je ili nije
kriv, rekao je portparol SFOR.
Za poruku koju je Karadzic uputio generalu Dzonu Silvesteru da ce iz
susreta s njim izaci kao moralni pobjednik, Landi kaze: Svako moze
pobijediti, ali za Karadzica je moralna pobjeda izlazak pred sud i
prilika da predstavi svoj slucaj. Sve dok se to ne desi SFOR ce
nastojati da pritvori Karadzica, kaze on.
On je odbacio optuzbe koje je Karadzic uputio u pismu na racun
generala Dzona Silvestera da SFOR uznemirava njegove prijatelje i
porodicu.
Koristimo razna metode i pristupe da sve optuzene za ratne zlocine
privedemo pred lice pravde, pa i Karadzica. Pismo koje je general
Silvester nedavno isporucio bliskom prijatelju Radovana Karadzica je
samo jedna od tih metoda, rekao je Landi. On je rekao da SFOR niti
ucjenjuje Karadzica, niti prijeti njegovim prijeteljima. Landi je
izrazio nadu da ce se Radovan Karadzic i drugi optuzeni za ratne
zlocine do oktobra naci u Hagu.
NEZAVISNE NOVINE, 25. april 2002.
Karadzic se oglasio pismom, ne pomislja na predaju
Bivsi predsednik Republike Srpske Radovan Karadzic, optuzen za ratne
zlocine tokom rata u Bosni, porucio je da ne prihvata apele za predaju
Haskom tribunalu, ocenjujuci da je on "nelegalno osnovan" i da ce ga
se Zapad "stideti".
Karadzic se oglasio pismom koje je 17. aprila uputio profesoru
beogradskog Pravnog fakulteta i predsedniku Medjunarodnog komiteta za
istinu o Radovanu Karadzicu, Kosti Cavoskom, a koje objavljuje
beogradski "Nedeljni telegraf" u najnovijem broju.
U pismu, Karadzic protestuje zbog, kako navodi, pretnji i ucena, koje
clanovima njegove porodice i prijateljima upucuje komandant Sfora
americki general DZon Silvester.
"Porodici i prijateljima vodje Al Kaide se ne preti, i to je lepo, a
preti se mojim prijateljima i mojoj porodici, iako na nikad ni u kom
pogledu nisam bio neprijatelj domovine generala Silvestera", naveo je
Karadzic.
O Haskom tribunalu, koji ga tereti za ratne zlocine u BiH, bivsi
predsednik RS navodi da se u tom sudu "moze naci svaki Srbin, bez
obzira na odgovornost i krivicu".
"Taj Tribunal ne samo sto je nelegalno osnovan, nego ce biti razlog za
stid pristojnog dela Zapada, koji sada stoji iza njega. Pitao bih
generala Silvestera kakav je to sud, a pre svega tuzilastvo, koje prvo
hapsi, pa onda prikuplja dokaze? I koje hapsi i potrazuje civilni i
vojni vrh svih srpskih drzavnih entiteta i izjednacava ga sa obicnim
kriminalcima iz drugih nacionalnih zajednica i entiteta", pita se
Karadzic.
U pismu Karadzic optuzuje Sfor, odnosno njegovog komandanta, za
krsenje mandata i porucuje mu da je bolje da se njih dvojica nikada ne
sretnu.
"Po tom mandatu, gospodin general bi mogao da me uhapsi samo ako bi me
njegovi vojnici slucajno sreli tokom svojih uobicajenih aktivnosti.
Vec sedmu godinu ja se svojski trudim da do tog susreta ne dodje, a
bilo bi bolje da tako radi i general Silvester. Naime, u tom susretu
ja bih mogao proci i ovako i onako, u tehnickom pogledu verovatno bih
prosao vrlo lose, ali u moralnom bih sigurno bio pobednik", naveo je
Karadzic.
On je istakao da je "vojska generala Silvestera" u RS i BiH pre svega
zbog njegovog (Karadzicevog) parafa na Dejtonskom sporazumu i podvukao
da "na srpskim teritorijama nijedan regularan vojnik generala
Silvestera i vojne alijanse ciji je on oficir, nije nastradao ni za
vreme rata, ni nakon njega".
"Mi smo zbog toga srecni, a to je moguce samo zbog neizmerne dobrote i
trpeljivosti ovoga naroda ovde koji razlikuje prave vojnike, koji su
necija deca, od okrutnih lovaca na ucene, koje ne cenimo vise nego sto
je uobicajeno", naveo je Karadzic u pismu Kosti Cavoskom.
Bivsi predsednik RS posebno je kritikivao neke politicke snage u
Srbiji.
"I medju Srbima nema trpeljivijih Srba od 'bosanskih' Srba, koje je
samo krajnja nevolja mogla naterati da se brane, pa im sada tesko pada
kada u matici, cak i marginalne politicke snage drze da smo mi ovde
krvozedni i nesmireni divljaci. A kad bi htele, i te marginalne
politicke snage, mogle bi znati istinu i odgovorno se odnositi prema
njoj", pise Karadzic.
Na kraju pisma Karadzic porucuje komandantu Sfora da ostavi na miru i
da "ne terorise" njegove stare prijatelje.
"U medjuvremenu sam stekao hiljade novih prijatelja, za koje moji
progonitelji ne znaju. I svakim danom imam ih sve vise. Nije neophodno
da sam u dva-tri sela u RS, jer smo ostali u Bosni kao celini, pa
zasto bih se ja odricao cele Bosne? Mozda su nas i ostavili u Bosni da
bi ona jednog dana cela bila nasa", porucio je Karadzic u pismu.
BETA
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