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yes the day in the blue good old bill clinton's the remembrance the creamy that used to feel the most acute the little the ribbons herself. nine thirty am in the russian capital easier r.t. headlights anger at austerity plans spills onto the streets of italy and spain with their governments preparing to tighten belts even further to calm the markets and save a faltering euro meanwhile splitsville and stuns currency markets by pegging it's friday that used to be a monetary safe haven to the euro currency a number of khadafi loyalists including his security chief flee libya for a neighboring the share with the whereabouts of the colonel himself still unknown this is concerns grow over what kind of regime could replace him. and the central
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russian city of jaroslava turns into a global think tank as the world policy forum gets started there multiculturalism and global security among the most pressing issues expected to be discussed after leaving. up next we'll look at the controversial figure of rock former bosnian serb military leader on trial at the hague. in late may two thousand and eleven the small serbian village of lhasa live a shot to fame leading newspapers in many countries splashed its name across the front pages it was here the serbian police arrested general ratko my luggage on it this is the place where it happened and. the worldwide manhunt for him lasted fifteen years serbia had promised a one million euro award for his capture. the general's arrests triggered acts of
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protest in many serbian towns. some of the serbian people are worried because the hague and international media are smearing our hero or. something like that is a war criminal others believe he's a victim many events of his life especially in recent years are still shrouded in mystery. the small village of laos it ever is situation in central serbia a repair shop and a couple of cafes are one and a church a cemetery and a school or the other the village looks like many others in serbia. dropcam lederach a general of the serbian army spent the last few days before his arrest hiding here in the house of his brother in law bronco. almost there you're more often on
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friendly terms with branco for six years over there malcolm his garden every tool but there were sort of general people here are not in the habit of locking their gates in homes but sometime a codebreaker began doing just that when you lock the door as on frank are you hiding your brother. he simply laughed off my question if. as in many villages all the people in the last are ever know one another everything is out in the open here and yet even neighbors did not suspect that an internationally wanted man was saying in a nearby house. i didn't know that luggage was hiding here before the media broke the news otherwise i would have invited him just a place they'd never been found here. rest come let it commands of the army of bosnian serbs during the civil war in the ninety's in
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the slavia the international tribunal for the former yugoslavia at the hague charged dropcam nottage with genocide and the murder of both prisoners of war and civilians during the conflict in july this year try. the small village of the john of the chief when luggage was born is situated on a mountain pass in bosnia. most of the houses a shed by his close and distant relatives were. radical was born in this house i was born here myself a little later it was not literally get there until i moved into a house and also my earth and now all of our relatives lives here. cash holidays are not a common thing for country folk the mountains of servia are especially rigorous. if they want to survive presents need to till the soil much harder than in the limbs.
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our first cut grass with rocker when i was eight years old when i know he was the best moa here and i learned the skills from it was as though it was the now on the best it was a race. of the three of you. in accordance with the patriarchal traditions of peasant families the oldest male is supposed to care for the family. rotten lad it was born in one nine hundred forty three during world war two his father died in battle in morocco was still a child. from then on he was the man of the house. subcommittee who is now went out to hold working people who were lazy people always got a dressing down and one of theo's me almost told me to pieces whenever i tried to get out of my shorts and it's a work in the field and school very seriously it always was at the top of his class in military school and we were all very proud of your lawyer whatever that. recommend is began his career was an officer in the yugoslav army is incorporated
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all ethnic groups live in the balkans. after world war two in the slavia was a multiethnic federation that was made a prostate has different ethnic populations. bus three of the. all officers of the former yugoslavia were a yugoslav as far as their convictions were concerned they became serbs are fairly after the breakup of yugoslavia the area that broadcom loved each was one of those who believed in yugoslavia he believed there was still a chance so for evolving it but he changed his views in one thousand nine hundred three after seeing northlands murdering it serves they were trying to create an islamic country in an area populated by serbs where he himself had been born. a vicious civil war broke out in the slums republic of bosnia and ninety two about half of the people here follow his call. sells calls and muslims
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a little more than a third of catholic croatians which a first supporter of the serbs but ultimately sided with bosnian muslims. in april ninety ninety two the serb surrounded the bosnian capital sarajevo muslims made up the majority of the city's population. the siege of sarajevo lasted four years. traces of the siege can still be found on the streets of syria over many locals lost relatives. of your daughters i know i was away at work on october the tenth ninety four point zero one hundred twenty five millimeter shell hit my house my son and daughter were critically wounded twenty eight days later they died in hospital . me greatly to see their suffering i really wish they had died right there and then to want to bear witness suffered so much actually a deal is done. according to the hague tribunal the siege of
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sarajevo resulted in more than ten thousand deaths. approximately fifty thousand people were wounded. these figures were cited and one of the greatest indictments of red come adage. the rush to the war in sarajevo started when muslim terrorists attacked the serbian waiting even started to boil when was them terrorists attacked a column of the former yugoslav peoples. the street where muslim terrorists were shooting at civilians and soldiers the muslims did everything's we involve the world community especially the nato pact here but to force on. the very goals by staging the various terrorist that uses. during the war bosnia was divided into two countries. the muslims call their part the republic
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of iran that's a convener all the serbs called the republics or. rather than courage previously a practicing psychiatry just became leader of the serbs as well as presidents he was also formally known as on the commander in chief. of encourage each didn't have the right skills to command troops he had authority humanitarian frame of mind because of his character in occupation. and in parliament a republican search good to get that into account when it elected radical luggage the army's chief of staff. the president and the chief of staff for public soaps as an uneasy relationship the two men played according to their own. remote then thought when under pressure by the international community courage assigned a plan to divide between muslims and serbs america and europe had guaranteed peace
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and all sides involved had promised to lay down their arms if the plan was signed but not it showed a map to members of parliament making clear what the serbs will lose if both when it was divided in that way in the payment as a result parliament refused to ratify the plan to turn it down as it were kurdish had to renounce his signature. by the end of the war tensions between the president and the chief of staff had reached an all time high rather than courage signed a decree forcing laddish to resign. in july of one nine hundred ninety five the hague tribunal indicted both on similar charges crimes against humanity and genocide. delusional some but i have heard those accusations of the hague tribunal against me yes i am a person who belongs to my people. just like my ancestors my people first to start. i don't recognize any trolls except the troll of my own people here
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those who do need to defend myself because these idiotic accusations come from places which have been churning out law is true clio publicly. in one nine hundred ninety six nato demanded the carrot it should not it should be handed over to the hague tribunal. that same year both bosnian serb leaders disappeared from bosnia. when the carriage which was on the wanted list he had no contact with any of his relatives he rented to flatten belgrade posner's talk to dragon davidge he grew long hair and appeared in more thick rimmed glasses of the skies. current it openly appeared on the streets and even found employment. often went shopping and frequented the news a cafe near his house where he spent time sitting amongst pictures of himself and
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wrote come luggage. full of freedom for a courage. today serbian patriots regard this cafe as a veritable mecca. ok young people it's a can on a going to tour. a cafe zona me charette it was on friendly terms with those carried it around not a. word of this trinkets kurdish and raw courage for the world let's wish them a fair trial an early release because they are not guilty of what they're charged with i hope that they can join us here soon as possible and we can bring together. rather than carrots was on a wanted list for twelve years before he was arrested and extradited to the hague in two thousand and eight. refco nottage was in hiding for fifteen years serbian police arrested him on may twenty sixth two thousand and eleven. redken ladish
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could have stayed in hiding much longer had he not used a cell phone and had he not been in touch with relatives even distant ones that's when you are cut off from all sources of financing you have to turn to people you know given you the trouble though is that they may already be under surveillance that's how you get because. the police are in no hurry to disclose the details of how he was able to evade arrest for fifteen years. to the press claim he frequented his brother in law's house in the village of loss of ever many times. while she was in the room behind the second window he saw and heard the rumble of the police that's what he told me what i was supposed to do during his arrest he was carrying two pistols and. this is what he said to them i could have killed you any time it's over but i didn't do it because you're not guilty of anything. you come laddish was extradited to the hague in early june two thousand and eleven
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according to his lawyer the former general had suffered three strokes and a heart attack while he was on the run at the hague tribunal ruled the outcome luggage was fit to stand trial. on the estimates in you in any way i hear better in my left ear and my head is cold let me put my cap on. my body is not functioning forth on the. july the fourth two thousand and eleven sarajevo the capital of the muslim republic of bosnia and herzegovina this rally has gathered on a square to watch a live broadcast from the trial of the hague. more than anyone else these people blame radical knowledge for the deaths of their husbands brothers and children.
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the same day the s. and p. thirteen h. no news movement held one of its regular protest actions in serbia's capital belgrade. some still a lot of importance and we are not allowed to vandalize buildings or the city this is a political act that will be normal anywhere else out there for the s.n.p. thirteen eighty nine supports the fans are heroes of radical marriage and relevant carriage was the odds are they defended the serbian people on their home soil on a lot of that so we founded our organization to help protect our heroes from the slander campaign of the hague tribunal at all. according to a public opinion poll more than half of the serb population were against ratko knowledge being handed over to the hague tribunal. but nearly a quarter of the country's population accuse the government of deliberately dragnet feet of the search for much.
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the client provincial town of srebrenica is one of many in bosnia only the walls of several buildings top march with bullets and shells serve as a reminder of the bitter fighting between serbs and muslims. even though there are many serbian villages around tripper next town has a predominantly muslim population. or was later called a massacre took place here in one thousand nine hundred five according to different sources anywhere between two thousand and eight thousand people were either killed or went missing. the main blame for the killings is on russia colette h. three finalists all three of my sons the northern and silenced my husband. what can i say about it just look around zero zero zero these people were guilty of
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anything never heard. back in one thousand nine hundred three strober need so was a muslim enclave on the territory of a sofa cleared entity called republika srpska. troubridge that was surrounded by him not to choose troops but muslim troops led by a nice old age who are in control of the situation inside the town. gender in the seventh this christmas for the orthodox church on that day in one nine hundred ninety three storage his troops from launched a massive attack on nearby serbian villages. the village of cravats is fifteen kilometers from. cristo story on of each a serb has lived here with his family since his birth. on january the seventh one thousand nine hundred three he was on the front line in the afternoon he and fellow
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soldiers were told that the muslims had captured cravats after attacking it from st bernard. the serbs were ordered to retreat. so then this if. i could be there to crowd somewhere to troops lunar at the village so if you do these after there was a very strange of burnt flash in the village i found the body of my father and a hundred meters from the house. had been stabbed in the gut. had backed out his face. this footage filmed by police shows serbs massacred in villages around strip printed. various estimates put the number of serbian villages ruined by not so riches troops during the war more than one hundred. the names of three thousand two hundred sixty two casualties are now being established. post-mortem reports make it clear the most of the people were tortured before they
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were killed. service minister for public health zoran strength of each works at the institute for forensic study history in the war he witnessed the inquest into the deaths of the serbs and examinations for mass graves in bosnia. we saw the bodies of captives military men with their heads chopped off one served for example had been hit on the head with a blunt object and designs had been cut out moreover it was clear that his eyes were removed when he was still alive many of the bodies bore signs of a very cruel method of murder in formula hague tribunal about it and supplied it with all of a level records this is. one of the most popular theories concerning caesar a stripper not to choose troops is that it was an act of revenge against muslims. nine hundred ninety three un resolution called on peacekeeping forces to disarm the
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combat formations that entrenched themselves and for bringing. the muslim enclave was declared a demilitarized zone. a dutch the talent of group the race was dispatched to monitor the cease fire. most of those not human events but instead of disarming the muslim formations as they had committed themselves to under the agreement on srebrenica signed by i mean in general more your united nations forces turn those safe areas into terrorist and fundamentalist bases from where the villages and towns were attacked it's a ship and all of it would starting from one hundred ninety three we haven't taken a single action against repartee just by watching how the muslim side was being miss sometimes they even used helicopters to airlift weapons from iran. the serve all me waited for the disarmament of now so richest troops for nearly two years before wrath come luggage decided to stormtrooper anita in the summer of one
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nine hundred ninety five. serbian troops captured the city on july the eleventh. according to another theory the governments of bosnia and herzegovina simply gave strober needs or away to the serbs. nationalists ritually was lost in one thousand nine hundred three myself and other public figures from serbia needs met with me as president i liaise a bag of it should sarajevo so this is what he said to us if the serbs into trouble if something like five thousand muslims died that would create a good excuse for a nato invasion and nato forces would then stop audience serbian units as nagasaki is not yet. thousands of dead bodies on both sides. mothers without children wives without husbands. distrust and hatred
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between those who were once neighbors. that is the outcome of the standoff intrapreneur. or for that is working with the crimes were committed by both sides i have proof most of the muslims were shot and killed you must never come. a list of tests shows that they were killed from a distance this may mean that some of them died in battle most of the crimes against serbs were not perpetrated with firearms they were simply murdered in cold blood or their heads were chopped off. with orange the hague tribunal gave the commander of the group of muslim troops already two years in prison but after a second trial he was acquitted and four in orange looked guilty and two thousand and eight he was arrested by bosnian police for extortion and unlawful possession of. today the former commander feels comfortable in his home in the town
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of. the both people in my country. feel very bitter about the rulings of the hague tribunal simply because there reflect double standards for the person in question is whether the expertise of the tribunals was high enough there are also questions about the professionalism of those who do little the gills of the accusers wait for the world. although red candidates was already on the wanted list up until two thousand and three to no special precautions to go into hiding syria's government had not even stripped him of his bodyguards. in the ninety's malcolm let it slip in belgrade when the house where his son now has an office for his small firm from two thousand on woods serbian police began regular round ups and searches in the homes of not it's his closest relatives it is
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still unclear whether general was at that time. i don't think i need to talk about my father's life even today it is the subject of too much speculation i will not say when i saw him last before his arrest i can only say that we stayed here together during the one nine hundred ninety nine bombardment of belgrade i did see my father after his arrest but i am not allowed to talk with the media about anything relating to the hague tribunal got us from the perch. the student population was angered by recommended she's arrest there were actions in support of the general in many cities and serbia. demonstrations demanded that the government resign because they felt it was to train the nation's heroes. in belgrade one such protest resulted in a clash with the police. this
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is a poster from a demonstration we held several years ago calling from lots to be handed over to the hague tribunal it reads our years are not for wasting managed to the hague. activists from the serbian news organization want all people who committed crimes in the former yugoslavia to be handed over to the hague tribunal this petition campaign is just one example of the frequently activities on the streets of belgrade to support the movement. these young people make no distinction between muslim and criminals they feel tensions in the balkans will die down one soul was wanted by the hague tribunal a brought to justice. country in the territory of the former yugoslavia has its own version of history reformat each of them has its own heroes and criminals if you think this is a very bad situation it is a breeding ground for future conflicts. with. the syrian
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government has now handed over all the main serbs wanted by the hague tribunal in the proceedings in the quran how judge the last suspect on the wanted list was captured on july the twentieth two thousand and eleven with the european union won't serbia to meet quite a few conditionals before it can become an e.u. member but so far we're going to enable to comply with all of them so the rest of carriage and have each as pave the way for talks about possible entry into a year of. serbian society is still it's over the prospect of merging with great to europe more than half of serbs polled distrust the new. ball rather than carriage it was still in hiding from the police the phrase rather than courage it street was written on the house ways lived. and after the rest of ratko luggage
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