The Respublika Srpska’s authorities have formally announced that they have collected enough evidence to prove the guilt of Alia Izetbegovic, former president of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the leader of Bosnian Muslims, so the Hague Tribunal now may indict him for specific offences. ”The proofs will be handed over to the Hague as soon as in early September, and it is very likely that the Tribunal will start proceedings against Izetbegovic,” Sinisa Jorjevic, the republic government’s advisor responsible for the Tribunal affairs is quoted by the Beta news agency as saying at a press-conference. Mr. Jorjevic would not specify what kind of proof it was, just mentioning that Mr. Izetbegovic might by be indicted on the grounds of the so-called “command responsibility.” The point is that the Moslem armed units were exclusively at the command of Alia Izetbegovic at the time of the Bosnian war.
As if solidifying Mr. Jorjevic’s words and Bosnia’s Serbian authorities’ hopes, 3 Bosnian Moslems, former high-ranking army officers, appeared yesterday before the Hague Tribunal. According to BBC, these were General Enver Khajikhasanovic, General Mehmed Alagic and Colonel Amir Kobura. The tribunal's indictments allege that General Enver Hadzihasanovic, General Mehmed Alagic and Colonel Amir Kubura were responsible for executions and massacres during the Bosnian war between 1992 and 1995.
They are the most senior Bosnian soldiers to stand before the tribunal. All three have denied charges of murder, wanton destruction and inhumane treatment. The 19-count indictment charges the three officers with failing to prevent men under their command from committing atrocities that they knew, or should have known, were about to happen. The tribunal has not charged the men with personally committing or ordering specific illegal acts, but said all three were experienced and professional officers accustomed to military command and discipline.
At the same time, the pleas of the authorities of the Respublika Srpska to the Hague Tribunal seems naive, at least. The court proceedings launched against 3 Bosnian Muslim officers is needed for the West (first of all, the USA) in no account to restore the historical justice, but just to soften the double-standard policy conducted in relation to the Serbs and to try to convince the public in an “unbiased approach.” The same way, the USA sometimes afford to flirt with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and ostentatiously condemn Israel for “excessive cruelty” (having previously consulted with Messrs. Sharon or Peres).
But when it comes to trying Alia Izetbegovic… One may say that decrepit 76-year-old Izetbegovic is worth the entire army of Bosnian Muslims. Due to his age, he has moved away from big politics and has become a kind of symbol for the entire Muslim world (at least for Muslim militants), and the West is not going to touch him in any case. Should it happen, Taliban atrocities towards civilians in Afghanistan would then seem just child’s plays. Apart from that, Mr. Izetbegovic was in fact a true conductor of the US policies in the Balkans throughout his tenure as president. In particular, Mr. Izetbegovic was first to violate the Lisbon Agreement urging Bosnian Muslims to clash with Serbs and Croats. He contributed much in creating Muslim military units guided by Shariah and responsible for ethnic cleansings on Bosnian territory. It was Mr. Izetbegovic’s “service” that Bosnian Serbs have found themselves aliens in their own country and were driven away from their homes to a ghetto of sorts, a small reservation called Respublika Srpska. Besides, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, which is controlled by the USA, is also much influenced by the “Islamic factor” – many Hague judges are Muslims or represent Islamic countries.
The above trial of Bosnian officers is a little prelude, as it were, to a grandiose performance called “Milosevic Trial.” For Slobodan Miloservic to play in full the role of the “Balkan Adolf Hitler,” it is necessary to stage a new Nuernberg, where all the perpetrators of genocide against non-Serbs would be exposed, Serbian publicist Stephan Branisablevic writes.
Mr. Milosevic is also a symbol, but for the Slavic world. He became the symbol of resistance to the NATO aggression for the Serbian people. So, Mr. Milosevic’s trial is really needed for the USA in order to amnesty the West from the hegemonistic policy which it has pursued towards the Serbian nation.
SERGEI YUGOV
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/08/22/13051.html
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