by conduct conducted by special services and orchestrated by so special services this is really going to be a huge precedent if this man was sentenced today a huge precedent you will not hear about on the mainstream media but that was r t correspondent anastasio churkin to bring us the latest and as i mentioned sentence and was just handed down this evening just minutes ago in that new york court he got twenty years we will have anastasio a live on that in our eight o'clock show which is a great reason for you to come back here in half hour for more news that does it for now. issues that so much of the. media this is a real. time to write you for the euro as the single currency real one crisis today europe's politicians appear to be powerless in the face of.

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 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 ward plays capture. the general's arrests triggered acts of protest in many serbian towns. for the serbian people are worried because the hague and international media are smearing our hero of. something not it is a war criminal others believe he's a victim in many events of his life especially in recent years a still shrouded in mystery.

the small village of laos ever a situation in central serbia a repair shop and a couple of cafes are one and the church the cemetery and a school or the other the village looks like many others in serbia. brought comb luggage a general of the serbian army spent the last few days before his arrest hiding here in the house of his brother in law branco. i've been on friendly terms with branco for six years over there my work in his garden everybody but never saw the general people here are not in the habit of walking the arcades in homes but some time ago breaker began doing just that i 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 the last or ever know one another everything is

out in the open here and yet even neighbors did not suspect this an internationally wanted man was saying in a nearby house. 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 they'd never been found here. read come let it commands of the army of bosnian serbs during the civil war in the ninety's in the slum here. the international tribunal for the former yugoslavia at the hague charged outcome 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 version 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. record was born in this house i

was born here myself a little later with another pretty little together until i moved into a house and also my r.v. now one of our relatives lives there. the holidays are not a common thing for country folk the mountains of serbia are especially rigorous. if they want to survive peasants need to till the soil much harder than in the lowlands. of course is not our first cut grass with wrecker when i was eight years old when i know he was the best moa here and i learned the skills from him what i thought were important now on the best and was always. 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 america was still a child. from then on he was the man of the house.

subcommittee who is now went out to hard working people who were lazy people always got a dressing down on or three of me almost always to pieces whenever i tried to get out of my chores oh dear than any other 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 that. recommended school ghana's career was an officer in the yugoslav army has incorporated all ethnic groups live in both comes. after world war two in the slavia was a multi-ethnic federation and has made a prostate has different ethnic populations. three of them if they were all officers of the former yugoslavia were yugoslavs as far as their convictions were concerned maybe concerns are shared only after the breakup of yugoslavia and 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 and he changed his views in one thousand nine hundred ninety three after seeing the muslims 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 nineteenth century to about half of the people here follow his call. cell's post muslims a little more than a third of catholic croatians butchered for support of the serbs but ultimately sided with muslims. in april ninety ninety two the serbs surrounded the bosnian capital sorry a vote 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. i mean obviously i was away at work on october the tenth not in ninety four were four point zero one hundred twenty five millimeters shell hit my house my son and daughter were critically wounded it was twenty eight days later they died in hospital and find me great play just see their suffering i really wish they had died right there and then they wouldn't have suffered so much. according to the hague tribunal the siege of sarajevo resulted in more than ten thousand tests. approximately fifty thousand people were wounded. these figures were cited in one of the gray vist indictments of red come at it. the war in sarajevo started when muslim terrorists attacked the serbian waiting even started to boil when muslim terrorists attacked

a column of the former yugoslav peoples. of ologist street where muslim terrorists were shooting at civilians and soldiers the muslims did everything's we involve the world community especially the nato packs here but a force on the side of their goals by staging the various terrorist attacks is always. during the war was new was divided into two countries. the muslims call their part the republic of iran it's a convenient while the serbs called theirs public service. rather than courage previously a practicing psychiatry just became leader of the serbs as well as president he was also formally known as the commander in chief. of. red encouraged didn't have the right skills to command troops he had a thorough humanitarian frame of mind because of his character and occupation for

running a parliament a republican search good to get that into account when elected right can lodge the army's chief of staff of. the president and the chief of staff for public service as an on these the relationship the two men played according to their own. little book the more than five and under pressure by the international community courage assigned a plan to divide those near between muslims and serbs america and europe had 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 it was divided in that way in the pretty madam as a result parliament refused to ratify the plan it turned 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 ninety ninety five the hague tribunal indicted go from similar charges crimes against humanity and genocide. but i have heard those accusations of the hague tribunal against me yes i am a person who belongs to my people heart just like my ancestors my people first to start. what i don't recognize any troilus except the trial of my own people here those who don't need to defend myself because these idiotic i.q. stations come from places which have been churning out law it's true kiosk obliquely. in one nine hundred ninety six nato demanded that carrot it should not be handed over to the hague tribunal. that same year both bosnian serb leaders disappeared from bosnia. when the carriage was

on the wanted list he had no contact with any of his relatives he rented a flat in belgrade posing as dr dragon davidge he grew long hair and appeared in more thick rimmed glasses as a disguise. courage openly appeared on the streets and even found employment. he often went shopping and frequented the cafe near his house where he spent time sitting amongst pictures of himself and rushed home luggage. freedom for a girl image. today serbian patriots regarded as cafe as a veritable mecca. young people excited on a going to tour. the cafe zona nisha read it was on friendly terms with both courage which found much. of this trinket close to kurdish and read courage let's

wish them a fair trial early release because they are not guilty of what their shows with israel i hope that they can join us here soon as possible and we can drink together . rather than carrot it was on a wanted list for twelve years before he was arrested and extradited to the hague in two thousand and eight. nottage was in hiding for fifteen years serbian police arrested him on may twenty sixth two thousand and eleven. rather than luggage 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'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 that's how you get called. the police are in no hurry to disclose the details of how he was able to. they'd arrest for fifteen years but rumors leaked to the

press claim he frequented his brother in law's house in the village of last survivor many times. while it was in the room a kind of 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 write 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 i hear better in my left ear and my head is cold let me put my cap on. both my body is not functioning. well shit. july the

fourth two thousand and eleven sorry the capital of the muslim republic of bosnia and herzegovina this rally has gathered on the square to watch a live broadcast from the trial of rock'em luggage at the hague more than anyone else these people blame ratko knowledge for the deaths of their husbands brothers and children. the same day the s. and p. thirty nine thousand knowing you from movement held one of its regular protest actions in serbia as capital belgrade. some still feel we are not out to vandalize buildings or the city this is a political act that would be normal anywhere else out there for the s.n.p. thirteen eighty nine supports them to fans are heroes for. much and run of uncharted church of god so they defended the serbian people on their own soil on

account of that so we founded our organization to help protect our heroes from the slander campaign of the hague tribunals. according to a public opinion poll more than half of the so population were against rocco not its 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 for much. of. the.

the client provincial town of srebrenica is one of many and 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 for printing the town has a predominantly muslim population. but was later called a massacre took place here in one nine hundred ninety five the cooling to different sources anywhere between two thousand and eight thousand people were even killed or went missing the main blame for the killings is on route co-manage. in all 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 this people really do try anything there was. back in one thousand nine hundred three strober need so was a muslim enclave on the territory of a self declared entity called republika srpska. troubling so was surrounded by i'm

not a choose troops but muslim troops led by enough storage who are in control of the situation that inside the town. gender is a servant that is christmas for the orthodox church on that day in one thousand nine hundred three storage his troops launched a massive attack on nearby serbian villages. the village of cravats is fifteen kilometers from. crystal 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 soldiers were told that the muslims had captured cravats after attacking it from the serbs were ordered to retreat. so then this is it brother i could be in there too crowded somewhere through troops liberated the village seventy two days

after there was a hairy stranger 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 bet out his face. this footage filmed by police shows massacred in villages around. various estimates put the number of serbian villages ruined by not storage his troops during the war a more than one hundred. the names of three thousand two hundred sixty two casualties have now been established. post-mortem reports make it clear the most of the people were tortured before they were killed. service minister for public health zoran stankovic works at the institute for forensic studies to ring 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 bankers have moreover it was clear that his eyes were moved when he was still alive. many of the bodies bore signs of a very cruel method of murder we informed the hague tribunal about it and supplied it with all of a little records the stuff is. one of the most popular theories concerning the seizure of stripper needs not to choose troops is that it was an act of revenge against muslims. in one thousand nine hundred three u.n. resolution called on peacekeeping forces to just sound the combat formations of entrenched themselves for granted so the muslim enclave was declared a demilitarized zone. the dutch the talent of group the race was dispatched to monitor the cease fire. most of those not unions but instead of disarming the

muslim formations as they had committed themselves to under the agreement on srebrenica signed by mean a general more your united nations forces turned those safe areas into terrorist and fundamentalist bases from where villages and towns were attacked at a shipper though it was starting from nine hundred ninety three we haven't taken a single action against reprimands despite watching how the muslim side was being oh my goodness but sometimes they even used helicopters to airlift weapons from iran and. the serve on me waited for the disarmament of nasa all riches troops for nearly two years before welcome luggage decided to storm trip printed circuit in the summer of one thousand nine hundred five. serving troops captured the city on july the eleventh. according to another theory the government of bosnia and herzegovina simply gave strober needs or away to the serbs.

nationalists virtually was lost in nine hundred ninety three myself and other public figures from serbia needs met with both me as president i liaise a big of it should sarajevo so this is what he said to us if the serbs and triggering it and something like four thousand muslims died that would create a good excuse for a nato invasion and they say forces would then start bombarding serbian units and at those nagano something is not. thousands of dead bodies on both sides. mothers without children wives without husbands. distrust and hatred between those who were once neighbors. that is the outcome of the standoff instruments of. war for thais working quickly friends were committed by both sides most of the muslims were shot and killed three of us were killed. listed

tests shows that they were killed from a distance with me for 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. two years in prison after a second trial he was acquitted burned for in orange not guilty and two thousand and eight he was arrested by bosnian police for extortion and unlawful possession of alms today the former commander feels comfortable in his home in the bosnian town of. if 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

tribunals was high enough there are also questions about the professionalism of those who belittle the gills of the accuser's worth or worth or would go. although right 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 that it's 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 regular round up some searches in the homes of not it's his closest relatives it is 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 or no so 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 that has been the pitch. the same info collation was angered by recommended she's arrest there were actions in support of the general in many cities in serbia. demonstrations demanded that the government resign because they felt it was betraying the nation's heroes. in belgrade one such protest resulted in a clash with the police. this is a poster from a demonstration we held several years ago calling from lot of 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 the frequent 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 died down one soul was wanted by the hague tribunal brought to justice. the prophet of this 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 and yet war passed was enough for. the serbian government has now handed over all the main serbs wanted by the hague tribunal and the proceedings in the run how judge the last suspect on the wanted list was captured on july the twentieth two thousand and eleven with the european

union one serbia to meet quite a few conditionals before it can become an e.u. member but so far we have been an able to comply with all of them so the rest of carriage malott it should have each has paved the way for talks about possible entry into the a year. serbian society is split over the prospect of merging with greater europe more than half of serbs polled distrust the new. or rather than courage a true 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 rap come let each a growing number of images of him might be seen appearing on the streets of belgrade.

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