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suicide rates amongst young people in russia. taking their own lives one of the highest in the world. is now. oh yeah welcome to spotlight the show on r.t. alderney today my guest on the show is. the last bosnian serb general accused of genocide and mass murder in the bosnian war of ninety

ninety two ninety six rather this finally. this capture was a huge boost for serbia. for the european union and now the kind of. blasts that the serbian people are split as many see it. as a national hero and a mark will this 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. so been present very started says europe is ready to support the countries did he join the european union this became possible after belgrade sent general rascal managed to the hague where he's going to be tried by the general who's accused of genocide in ordering the massacre insecure and. he's threatening to start a hunger strike but he finds it leadership 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 general mood each more than once also met his political leader the former president of republicans sort of another one cartridge it you know he has been on trial in the hague scenes two thousand and eight. and. now. it's joined him i met mother church 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 soldier of of general killed the civilian people if i'm not throng. seven or. a thousand civilians. were killed by a soldier of self. most members so it was my eyes you really yes are you sure that . each was convinced and ruthless nationalist is a true can you guess exactly really i can't say i can repeat your expression. i was more watching him several times i saw. from this during the war and i have the impression that he was like a small local napoleon yes he liked very much his.

uniform he'd like to show his gun swear. but then life here was middle. 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 still in the jimmy there has more. last month the rest of russia can live each game is a long awaited really full bosnian muslims who was not accepted as happily by serbs bringing back beaten memories of the violence to go through in the one nine hundred 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 he just she did with. each one thousand nine hundred ninety five the bosnian serb forces on the east command attacked the un controlled town of srebrenica with tens of thousands of bosnia and civilians according to the us. and tribe you know more did she spoke thousands of women and children and or did the execution of more than seven thousand men and boys is wanted by the international war crimes tribunals 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 because 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 would mean billions of dollars worth of ron take. a listen the main accusation against larry is they should have been it's a massacre. i'm sure he he really is personal responsibility for it well. me personally i wasn't insane bring 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 you agree to what the west generally believes that that the serbs

beer 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 side 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 create for a new man. the share of 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 teachers 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 soraya 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 there her some bullets you can see places from the bullets on this photo 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 would you explain or is there an explanation for this very high level of hatred for is. 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 is there and 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 blood which i guess it was in the month today resent really yes it was. i didn't expect i

had some rumors about i'm a journalist i was looking for this rumors while. i was in montenegro. and i find a fare on the mountains and inspectable 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 doing just. that he said let's just hello and disappear. can we see that. each was characterized. as particularly cruel person compared to other persons symptoms of the war was the special or more lots of people like it was a thought that 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. you 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. the result. trial but against the lead there of syrups nationalists radicals

slobodan. voice. who was paramilitary groups killed people on the same way like soldiers of. sensitive yeager's the north pole witness of the war in both in the ninety's. thank you so russian jag spotlight will be back we'll continue this interview in less than a minute so stay with us the. wealthy british style. spot on the times.

market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my next concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. world. bringing you the latest in science and technology from the realms. we've got the future covered. welcome back to spotlight on an algorithm of in just a reminder that my guest in the studio here today is sitting off a witness on the ward. 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 what talking we're talking about them a lot 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 a mountain area just having a cup of coffee but will somebody over there because 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 the.

blood 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 journalist the official version is that he was he was captured by chance the just happened well it was just much luck ration is a true. human luggage you know yes. some time ago i. think with serbian president the 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 believe to him but but. mother was arrested on the 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 he is so. very very rich is unavailable if you went underground more water then when the security forces arrested blood which. my serbian 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 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 in serbian language and i was a guest. in belgrade t.v. . and that was the vaulting or spectator of about the main. the main interesting event from that week and only one. spectator school 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 arrest 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 their 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 qur'an additional that again if the if these guys are really the. women saying 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 that you know that there is. fighting between politicians about the future of course so a former part of serbia we have. questions on in macedonia and i will repeat a lot of problems in serbia and they call. serbian economy do you think that bustling and has to govern it will survive in the current well it's the fairly hard to say. what what can we expect from this country in the future but i

have very 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 carr and sometimes i can call him and ask him a little hint what can we expect. even the first man in cannot for the future because you know mostly in serapis one. they have another ideas the. leaders of the car and. him the way the problem of diplomacy. mixed it together and find. some good 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 i mean i mean that the muslims the albanians and the serbs and qassam well. it'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 formula slightly 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 where is the leaders of this institute and then 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 only for serbs no i

am not agree with this view because it's very easy serbs populations twice more then in creation and more in most in the car and herzegovina and many times more than in slovenia. do you think that general right 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 a. good look. no he's free to think about his future it's in the his interest. question the arrest rascal logic 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. we 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 there was 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 nine students and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your sound spotlight just dropped along we'll be back with more for us going comment on what the un and and just going through and so then they are to take. a look.

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