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algae dot com. in late may two thousand and eleven the small serbian village of law as it ever shot to fame leading newspapers in many countries splashed its name across the front pages it was here the serbian police arrested general ratko marriage on it this is the place where it happened. the worldwide manhunt for him lasted fifteen years serbia had promised a one million euro ward plays capture. the general's arrests triggered acts of protest in many serbian towns. some of the serbian people are worried because the hague and international media are sneering our hero of. something like that is a war criminal others believe he's
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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 or a one and a church a cemetery and a school or of the other the village looks like many others in serbia. graphic combe lederach the general of the serbian army spent the last few days before his arrest hiding here in the house of his brother in law bronco. i've been on friendly terms with branco for six years and one of them i will confuse garden every three but never saw the general people here are not in the habit of locking their gates in homes but some time ago brain called began doing
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just that we thought why do you lock the door as on frank or are you hiding your breath. he simply laughed off my question it. has in many villages over people in labs or 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 because i didn't know it was not it was hiding here before the media broke the news otherwise i would have invited him to my place would never have been found here. retcon lad it's commander of the army of bosnian serbs during the civil war in the ninety's slowly. the international tribunal for the former yugoslavia at the hague charged dropcam nottage with genocide and the murder of those prisoners of war and civilians during the conflict to life try.
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the small village of push on of the women knowledge was born is situated on a mountain pass in bosnia. most of the houses a shed by his close and distant relatives work with you through your rocker was born in this house i was born here myself a little later we lived together until i moved into a house like girls on my own now one of our relatives lives here fish. fish fish fish fish holidays are not a common thing for country folk the mountains of servia are especially rigorous. if they want to survive peasants need to till the soil much harder than in the lowlands. of course it's not over that first cut across with roger when i was eight years old when i know he was the best moa here and i learned the skills from it was a thorough report the now on the best and was not a surprise i'm not the three of you. in accordance with the patriarchal traditions
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of peasant families the oldest male is supposed to care for the family. that it was born in one nine hundred forty three during world war two his father dies in battle and rocco was still a child. from then on he was the man of the house. a home of you is how i went out to hold working people who was lazy people always got a dressing down on a field we almost told me to pieces whenever i tried to get out of my chores dear that in the interim work in the field and school very seriously i always was at the top of his class in military school and we were all very proud of him with what our theater. recommended spokane his career as an officer in the yugoslav army is incorporated all ethnic groups limbo comes. after world war two biggest slavia was a multi-ethnic federation it was made up of states with different ethnic populations. three of the seated all officers of the former
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yugoslavia were yugoslavs as far as their convictions were concerned they became serum so surely after the breakup of yugoslavia could be earlier than rudd can love 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 the muslims murder and serbs 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 nineteen to about half of the people here follow his columns. cells post muslims a little more than a third a catholic croatians which at first supported the serbs but ultimately sided with bosnian muslims. in april ninety ninety two the serbs surrounded the bosnian capital sarajevo muslims made up the majority of the city's population. the siege
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of sarajevo lasted four years. traces of the siege can still be found on the streets of syria over many locals who lost relatives here. i'm your daughter from you know i was away at work on alter the tense night in ninety four point one hundred twenty five millimeter shell hit my house my son and daughter were critically wounded it was under twenty eight days later they died in hospital and finally greatly to say their suffering i really wished they had died right there and they had to let me but i wouldn't have suffered so much. damage. according to the hague tribunal the siege of sarajevo resulted in more than ten thousand deaths. approximately fifty thousand people were wounded. these figures was cited in one of
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the greatest indictments of russia come out of. iraq to the war in sarajevo started when muslim terrorists attacked the serbian way they even started to boil when was them terrorists attacked a column of the former yugoslav peoples. of ologist street when muslim terrorists were shooting at civilians and soldiers the muslims did everything to involve the world community especially the nato pact to fight on their side of their goals by staging the various terrorist attack. during the war bosnia was divided into two countries. the muslims called their part the republic of near infinite savina all the serbs called theirs republics are. right of encourage previously a practicing psychiatry first became leader of the serbs as well as presidents he was also formally known as the commander in chief. of the.
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red encouraged didn't have the right skills to command troops he had a thoroughly humanitarian frame of mind because of his character in occupation war and a parliament a republican search good to get that into account when it elected right can let it the army's chief of staff. the president and the chief of staff for public soaps as an on these evil elation ship the two men played according to their own lives to. remember them for been under pressure by the international community card has signed a plan to divide those near between muslims and serbs america and europe have guaranteed peace 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 would lose if both me i was divided in that way in the opening madam as a result parliament refused to ratify the plan it turn it down as it were courage
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which had three nouns the signatures. by the end of the war tensions between the president and the chief of staff had reached an all time high rather than current if signed a decree forcing luggage to resign. in july of ninety ninety five the hague tribunal indicted both on similar charges crimes against humanity and genocide. delusional some 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 with the first stop. i don't recognize any trolls except the troll of my own people here if i don't need to defend myself because these idiotic i.q. stations come from places which are being churning out the law is true payoff publicly. and nine hundred ninety six nato
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demanded that carried it should not it 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 went to the flats and belgrade posing as dr dragon davidge. long hair and beards and more thick rimmed glasses as a disguise. current it openly appeared on the streets and even found employment. often went shopping and frequented the loser culture cafe near his house where he spent time sitting among pictures of himself and read camelot at. the foot of freedom for a girl image here today serbian patriots regard this cafe as a veritable mecca ok young people are taken on
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a guided tour. the cafes owner nisha redditch was on friendly terms with both carriage which. distributors to kurdish and record love which would list wish them a fair trial an early release because they're not guilty of what their shows with israel 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 knowledge was in hiding for fifteen years serbian police arrested him on may twenty sixth two thousand and eleven. can lightish 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 because when you're 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
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that's how you get because this is. 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. mileage was in the room behind a certain window he saw and heard the rumble of the police told me what i was supposed to do during his arrest my beach was carrying two pistols and. this is what he said to them that i could have killed you in your time is over but i didn't do it because you're not guilty of anything. right come laddish was extradited to the hague in early june two thousand and eleven 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 are new in any way
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i hear better in my left ear and my head is cold let me put my cap on. my body is not functioning fourth. of july fourth two thousand and eleven in syria over the capital of the muslim republic of bosnia and herzegovina this rally has gathered on the square to watch live broadcasts from the trial of the hague more than anyone else these people blame russia claim that it for the deaths of their husbands brothers and children. the same day the s. and p. thirty nine eighty nine news movement held one of its regular protest actions in serbia's capital belgrade. some still important you're not allowed to vandalize buildings or the city this is
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a political act that would be normal anywhere else of the same piece searching eighty nine supports them to fans are heroes rappler much can run of on carriage was the odds are they defended the serbian people on their own soil so we founded our organization to help protect our heroes from the slander campaign of the hague tribunal. according to a public opinion poll more than half of the so population were against rap knowledge being handed over to the hague tribunal. but nearly a quarter of the country's population accuse the government of deliberately dragging their feet of the search some of which. will. bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered.
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the quiet provincial town of cerebrally is one of many in bosnia only the walls of several buildings pockmarked with bullets and shells serve as a reminder of the bitter fighting between serbs and muslims. even though there are many serbian villages around. the town has a predominantly muslim population. but was later called a massacre took place here in one nine hundred ninety five according to different sources anywhere between two thousand and eight thousand people were in the kills all went missing. the main blame for the killings is on russia can manage. you know. just all three of my sons in the northern and south lost my husband.
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what can i say about it just look around there are all these people were guilty of anything there they were. back in one thousand nine hundred three trowbridge so was a muslim enclave on the territory of a sofa claire entity called republika srpska. troubridge that was surrounded by him not to choose troops but muslim troops led by enough storage who were in control of the situation inside the town. generally the seventh this christmas for the orthodox church on that day in one thousand nine hundred three enough storage his troops launched a massive attack on nearby serbian villages. the village of cravats is fifteen kilometers from strip police are christian story and of each a serb has lived here with his family since his birth on january the seventh one
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thousand nine hundred three he was on the front line in the afternoon he and fellow soldiers were told that the muslims had captured cravats after attacking it from. the serbs were ordered to retreat. so then this is it i could be there to crowd somewhere to troops liberated the village zone for two days after there was a hairy stranger of brown flashing the division 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. various estimates put the number of serbian villages ruined by not so riches troops during the war a more than one hundred. the names of three thousand two hundred sixty two
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casualties have now been established. post-mortem reports make it clear that most of the people were tortured before they were killed. service minister for public health zoran stankovic works at the institute for forensic studies during the war he witnessed the inquest into the deaths of the serbs and examinations for mass graves in boston. 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 his eyes had been cut out moreover it was clear that his eyes were moved when he was still alive. many of the bodies or signs of a very cruel method of murder we informed the hague tribunal about it and supplied it with all of a little records of the stuff is. one of the most popular theories concerning the seizure of trippin except i'm not it's just troops is that it was an act of revenge
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against muslims. in one thousand nine hundred three u.n. resolution called on peacekeeping forces to just sound the combat formations but entrenched themselves in st bernard so the muslim enclave was to clear the demilitarized zone. a judge the talent of group the race was dispatched to monitor the cease fire. well most of those not unionise where instead of dissolving 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 turned 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 latino t. three we haven't taken a single action against threat really just by watching how the muslims saw it was being own business but sometimes they even used helicopters to airlift weapons from iran and. the serve all may waited for the disarmament of nasty ulrich his
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troops for nearly two years before wrath come luggage decided to storm trooper needs in the summer of ninety ninety five. serbian troops captured the city on july the eleventh. according to another theory the government of bosnia and herzegovina simply gave strober leaks or away to the serbs. national divestiture gordon was lost in one nine hundred ninety three myself and other public figures from serbia needs met with both me as president i liaise a bag of it and sarajevo so this is what he said to us if the serbs i'm trippin it's something like four thousand muslims died that would create a good excuse for a nato invasion and they say forces would then stop bombarding serbian units. is not the. thousands of dead bodies on both sides. of us without
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children wives without husbands. distrust and hatred between those who were once neighbors. that is the outcome of the standoff in srebrenica. or for thais looking questions crimes were committed by both sides most of the muslims were shot and killed the ones we were killed. listing 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 and has already shot two years in prison after a second trial he was acquitted and for its origin not guilty in two thousand and eight he was arrested by bosnian police for extortion and unlawful
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possession of alms today the former commander feels comfortable in his home and bosnian town of. the both people in my country serbia feel very bitter about the rulings of the hague tribunal simply because there reflect double standards the pertinent question is whether the expertise of the tribunal was high enough there are also questions about the professionalism of those who do little the gills of the queues 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. his government had not even stripped him of his bodyguards. in the ninety's malcolm knowledge lived in belgrade in the house where his son now has an office for his small firm from two thousand on woods serbian police began
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regular round up some searches in the homes of not it shows closest relatives it is still unclear where the 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'm not allowed to talk with the media about anything relating to the hague tribunal got us from the perch. the same intro collation was angered by wrecked his unrest there were actions in support of the general in many cities and serbia. demonstrations demanded that the government resign because they felt it was betraying the nation's heroes. in belgrade one such protest resulted in
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a clash with the police. this is a poster from a demonstration we held several years ago calling from lot it's to be handed over to the hague tribunal it reads our years are not for wasting 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 tribunals this petition campaign is just one example of that 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 once all was wanted by the hague tribunal a brought to justice. the. country in the territory of the former yugoslavia has its own version of history reformat each of them has its own heroes
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and criminals if you think this is a very bad situation it is a breeding ground for future conflicts. with. the serbian government has now handed over all the name serbs wanted by the hague tribunal in the proceedings in the run how judge the last suspect on the wanted list was captured on july the twentieth two thousand and eleven. the european union wants serbia to meet quite a few conditions before it can become an e.u. member but so far we have been to only able to comply with all of them so the arrest of carriage melodious and how to teach is pave the way for talks about all possible entry into the. serbian society is split over the prospects of merging with greater europe more than half of serbs polled distrust the new. all round of encourage a truce still in hiding from the police the phrase rather than courage which street
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was written on the house ways lived. and after the rest of rap come let it show a growing number of images of him might be seen clearing on the streets of belgrade .
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