Watch this interview with Emina Ganic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiKICoJlH40
UPDATE Ejup Ganic has just had his bail refused. Do they think he's going to do a runner?? Also no access granted to his lawyers...why?? I thought that was a fundamental right!
So, Britain is in the middle of another political and diplomatic row. I'm not actually going to feel sorry for our government, since it's now pandering to the whims and cynical political aims of the ultra nationalist Serbian government.
Former Vice President of Bosnia, Ejup Ganic was arrested at Heathrow on March 1st a the 'request' of Serbian authorities based on an allegation of war crimes. If it wasn't so serious, I'd actually laugh. Serbia playing victim here?? Boy have they got a short memory...Srebrenica anyone? Kosovo?
Serbia is accusing Ejup Ganic alongside another 18/19 other Bosnians of ambushing a Yugoslav army convoy that was leaving Bosnian territory under UN supervision. 40 soldiers were killed.
The point is, the UN tribunals refused to Ejup Ganic based on insufficient evidence. This does not mean he managed to hide his crime, or that they could not find a direct link. If a person in this country is tried in a court of law for murder then the evidence and testimony must be absolute! No ifs, no buts...
It is very easy to sit in London in 2010 and forget what was happening to Bosnian Muslims during the Balkans conflict 18 odd years ago. They were being systematically ethnically cleansed...the thing we thought we'd never see again in Europe. Only now are Bosnians getting some redress in the form of the trials against Serbian war criminals. Radovan Karadzic is currently being tried, and trying very hard to turn this into a farce.
If Ejup Ganic is to be tried, it must be in the Hague and NOT SERBIA!!!...
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Chocolate Barfi (nice name, shame about the prose), why are you writing a blog on this subject? You've got your info on this from the usual media drivel, and you're not adding anything new, nor questioning any of the crap you quote. You're a bit of a closet racist as far as your Serbians = crininals brain waves are concerned. And you clearly don't know anything about Srebrenica or Kosovo. Actually, I think you should become a journalist (you really do meet all the criteria...) Regards, Marko G
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ReplyDeleteAnonymous: I can understand the emotive issue of the Balkans conflict. The point of this article was to highlight that this extradition request should not have been listened to. No where have I mentioned Serbians en masse.
ReplyDeleteMarko: I'm not sure when you talk about my prose you are referring to its content or its style? If you ask why i'm writing on this subject, well the last time I looked this was my blog and I can write about anything I choose to. Can you explain what crap I'm quoting?? I haven't quoted anyone or anything, simply pointed out facts. If you choose to interpret those facts in the way you do, then that's your choice.
I can pull out a number of articles from highly respected newspapers regarding Srebrenica if you want?? If you don't believe them, it would be interesting to know where you get your information from. To call me a closet racist is laughable. Again if you read the article again, I mentioned Serbian authorities/government and a collective term 'Serbia' as well as Serbian war criminals. Can you please explain how this equates to racism and equating all serbians as being war criminals?
I actually remember the Balkans conflict and although a lot of my information came from a variety of sources, some came from refugees and people who were doing humanitarian work there. Now I suppose they were lying too?