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those following the church test for free. the arrest of bosnian serb general has divided public opinion in serbia some believe it will seal membership while others accuse the government of betraying a national hero next algorithm off talks to journalist sergei grizz an off who covered the bosnian civil war in the mid ninety's who shares his opinion on the debate. oh yeah welcome to spotlight the show on r t algernon today my guest on the show

is going to. serve general accused of genocide and mass murder in the bosnian war of ninety ninety two ninety six the rat is finally in jail this capture a huge boost for serbia. to the european union and now the. blasts but the serbian people are split as many see it. as a national hero and a march will. cost the country more than it may bring our guest is a journalist based in belgrade during the civil war he met. personally and is ready to share his memories right now. been present started says europe is ready to support the countries did he join the european union this became possible after belgrade sent general ratko managed to the hague where he's going to be tried by

the general who's accused of genocide in ordering the massacre and. he's threatening to start a hunger strike but the civic leader should remain firmly focused on the european union. thank you very much for coming. under which circumstances when did you did you meet. well. when i was working in the former yugoslavia during the war met the gentleman each more than once also met his political leader the former president of republic a sort of another one. you know he has been on trial in the hague since two thousand and eight. and. now. it's joined him i met mother several times between one thousand nine hundred two and ninety ninety five. first time it was in pali the capital of bosnian serbs

and then several times in. this city that was shelled and. by and large forces. i was weakness how soldier of of general killed civilian people if i'm not throng. seven or. a thousand civilians. were killed by a soldier of self general most members so it was my eyes you really yes are you sure that. was convinced and ruthless nationalist is a true yes exactly i can't say i can repeat your expression. i was more watching him several times i saw. from this during the

war and have the impression that he was like a small local napoleon yes he liked very much his. uniform he'd like to show his guns. but then life here was middle. officer his colleagues from the military academy in belgrade told me that they didn't expect that he became a general fugitive bosnian serb army general ratko was arrested last month after sixteen years on the run spotlight sealing the deal me there has more. last month the rest of russia can live each game is a long awaited really full bosnian muslims but was not accepted as happily by serbs bringing back bitter memories of the violence to go through in the nineteen

ninety's the collapse of yugoslavia was accompanied by a feast struggle for territorial control and by much bloodshed the largest massacre since the second world war is associated with. each in one nine hundred ninety five the bosnian serb forces on the command attacked the un controlled town of srebrenica with tens of thousands of bosnian civilians according to the us. tribe you know roger cheek spoke thousands of women and children and we did the execution of more than seven thousand men and boys he wanted by the international war crimes tribunal had been on the run for sixteen years before his arrest and extradition to the hague. event caused huge protests in serbia with thousands coming onto the streets of belgrade claiming that han didn't want each over to the hague tribunal was treason many said serbia would prefer their own courts to deal with the case

so best arrest and extradition of the former bosnian serb army chief was one of the key conditions for the chance to join the european union potential membership goodman billions of dollars worth of bronte. listen the main accusation against larry is they should have been it's a massacre. i'm sure he he really because personally sponsibility for it well. me personally i wasn't in serbia inside during this. sad case but i have information from my colleagues and from historic calls from belgrade from. that it was a crime and to personally order to kill this innocent people. would

do you agree to what the west generally believes that that the serbs there the lion's share of responsibility for for the atrocities and and for the crimes committed during the bust in war. to be fair i must say that there are no sight of the conflict was very humane neither syrups not creations not muslims it was the war but i am sure that the late president of serbia. dictator slobodan milosevic and his visit from zagreb former president of grace for a new man. the share the most of the blame for initiating the long and bloody war i met was them several times i had some interviews with both of them

and. they i know personally they agreed on their plan to divide and herzegovina so so so this is the main thing and if we get back to the atrocities you had to you had to report as a journalist. on the on the atrocities and what happened. in the field in these villages all over the police who were you a witness to any work crimes to interest yourself. especially in survivor. it was ninety ninety two or ninety nine to three ninety ninety four i lived in the holiday inn hotel in the center of. together with foreign journalists and it seems that was agreement between serbs and muslims do not. push to not. do not make. bad for journalists living in. this hotel because it

will work against them yes that's why it was a unique building in the center of soraya wasn't it wasn't for her some bullets you can see places from the bullets on this hotel even today i was inside i was three months ago it's a lot of destroyed buildings in the center of the city with the hotel still the hotel i was living in the same hotel and. in general how did you explain or is there an explanation for this very high level of hatred for is. a high level of violence during the civil war. the main reason of this tragedy is nationalist. serbian nationalism muslims nationalism creation nationalism now i'm sure you want to say that that the former

yugoslavia it was a nationalist country. it was. it didn't happen like this i mean it should have been nationalist before before the war was there there were only two federal so-called communist countries in the europe soviet union and former federal soviet republic. for. yes it's exception because after they divorced czechs and slovaks they are living in peace in the center of your life in harmony in. the european union but in the case of former soviet union it was a small number of victims but in yugoslavia there were thousands of people killed because of nationalism nationalism is on the first place last time you met

a bloody it was in montenegro really yes it was. i didn't expect. rumors about i'm a journalist i was looking for this rumors while. i was in montenegro. and i find some cafe on the mountains and uninspected i saw one guy. it was rocking luggage he was already hiding was he yes yes did you have a chance to talk to him to communicate with just. his head let's just hello and disappear. can we see that. each was characterized. as particularly cruel person compared to the prettiest symptoms of the war was the special or

more lots of people like it was a prophet in the hands of slobodan milosevic yes because milosevic gave him orders milosevic paid him money and send weapon to boston syrups. it doesn't mean that he's not. guilty he is but. his political leader was slobodan milosevic. and i believe that now in cake. will show two. trials first time secret documents captured together with him in the village close to belgrade and that will be documents. against not only slobodan milosevic who unfortunately died was.

result. trial but against. leader off syrups nationalists radicals slobodan. voice laughs special. who was paramilitary groups killed people on the same way like soldiers of. sensitive vegas enough a witness of the war in both in the ninety's. thank you so russian journalist spotlight will be back we'll continue to listen to me in less than a minute so stay with us then go. to. me. wealthy british style. that's not on the.

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welcome back to spotlight on algorithm and just a reminder that my guest in the studio here today. a witness on the war. general luggage several times he's a russian journalist and he just published this book about about the events of the civil war in the former yugoslavia in the ninety's we're talking we're talking about them live each case we're talking about the guy that was arrested and is now in the hague facing facing trial. does the fact that it took so long that it was so hard to to to a wrist the mean that that that enjoyed some cover up

from from the serbian military you just mentioned before the break that you just occasionally met him in a cafe in montenegro we're just having a cup of coffee what with somebody over there because you're so sure so so so. it's he wasn't somewhere like bin ladin in some secret hideaway place so by the way. i think it's very good that. they kept that. bloody alive not like it was in case it was bin laden and we have some serious misunderstanding between. you know official version and. some controversial from the german is the

official version is that he was he was captured by chance the it just happened well it was the special operation is it true. you mean luggage yes yes. some time ago i. think was serbian president current serbian president the leader of serbian democrats. started sure we know each other twenty years and. i'm very satisfied with his policy now and i ask him morris please tell me between us you is it true that you didn't know nothing about his location all this years he said trust me i didn't i believed him but but. mother was arrested rather strange circumstances i have no reason to doubt the current president that age but

considering. the recent here he could hardly live so why it was a professional medical because it's so. very very aid which is unavailable if you were on the ground more water then when the security forces arrested blood which. might serve in comics told me about it last week i was in belgrade he had expensive medicine with him. that is very hard to find this medicine in belgrade now really yeah so so it came from from europe from western europe somewhere but somebody zealots the point is not. personal and ok how influential are the supporters of luggage today in the serbian society can the society be split over his arrest yes the society is split but. last week i told you i was. a guest in belgrade back at the presentation of our

book and serbian language and i was a guest. in belgrade t.v. . and that was the vaulting of spectators about the main. the main interesting event from that week and only one. spectators named the case of realize as a main event people talked about. probably not football not not basketball scandal great cultural crisis etc etc and what. i want to say that. the race did not cause a major public outcry in serbia remorse serbia's it didn't surprise yes yes most serbians realize that those of his link. fortunate past

that professional lawyers should work with and serbia should look to the future of to find a way on the european union because serbia now has a lot of problems. is not a problem it is the past of the country is if bloody each. of these guys are really the poorest when saying that do you mean syria and former yugoslavia in general today are no longer can time in the to do with this virus of nationalism well unfortunately the bulk of the region is still under political economical and moral tension. this is why the rest of it should be welcomed as another step towards service european union membership and we had a lot of troubles in more stand karats ago in the you know that there is.

fighting between politicians about the future of course of a former part of serbia we have. questions on in mustn't go in there and i will repeat a lot of problems in serbia and call. serbian economy do you think that bustling and herzegovina will survive in the current food well it's the fairly hard to say what what can we expect from this country in the future but not a good source and. when i was a young journalist in belgrade the young people of my it was working in belgrade toll now he's a high executive his name is valentinians and sometimes i can call him and ask him well in the end what can we expect. even the forest man in bosnia cannot for the

future because you know mostly in serapis one. they have another ideas the. leaders of the car and. him now the way. the problem of diplomacy. mixed it together and find the. solution but i think that politicians and journalists will have a lot of work many many years what about the bosnian serbs do you think that the bosnian serbs will get. the right to secede following the example of cost of a ticket because if not that would be double standards what you know what is the difference she she i mean i mean that the muslims the albanians and the surgeon cost well. that's the main question because the.

status of boston suburb now is. is not finally. clean there is all they'd be a of the great serbia. from. serbia from part of most any carrots or go in and from the part of creation and that was plan made by dictator slobodan milosevic and this idea is still there life in the society. what about the hague tribunals. well the hague tribunal for for for for me the slavia considered to be an example of justice do you believe that it's really doing a good job i think so because. i was in. the weiss and i had interview with the leaders of this institute and them sure

they are not against serbs like some people say like to say in moscow or in belgrade there against crime crime. in belgrade in zagreb and in. the majority of the accused by this tribunal for me just like there are serbs do you consider this fair. because we know that that also that not only serves the muslims cravats lots of lots of ethnic groups participated in the war but the sometimes it looks like the the tribunals is the only for serbs no i am not agree with this view because it's very easy serbs populations twice more than in creation and twice more in most in the car and herzegovina and many times more than in slovenia. do you think that

general clark could not reach who is in syria do you think that he'll get a fair trial in the hague. i hope. i hope that he will have a fair trial i'm sure that he will have he has. good look it's. now he's free to think about his future it's in the his interest. question the arrest calamity church it is considered to be a door opener for serbia do you think then that now that this arrest will pave the way for serbia into the e.u. yes i'm sure but it's not the last problem to belgrade we have. which have the case of course over the next step will be causal thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest on the show today said gager is an awful with this the

boss in the end war and an author of a book he just published on the events in former yugoslavia in the ninety's and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your stamp spotlight has dropped off will be back with more for spending comments on what the lawn and and outside just going through and so then they are to take. place it looks like.