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Where is the next International Tribunal going to be held?
How far will the present Serbian government go without seeing that they too are on somebody else's extradition list?
Arrest of Radovan Karadzic How often does one nation arrests somebody and delivers that person to a foreign court? In case of Serbia, it is very often. Most Serbians deluded themselves when Slobodan Milosevic was shipped off to the Hague â International Tribunalâ . Even BBC has captioned one of their images with â Hagueâ s opportunity to erase the debacle up to now , stating they want an "exemplary trial" (
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7522908.stm)â letâ s not forget that the United Kingdom was instrumental in setting up the Hague Tribunal. So far they could do no wrong. But the disproportionate number of Serbians who were found guilty is only equal to the disproportionate number of non-Serbians who were acquitted. It seems that Serbians were responsible for both sides to those wars from 1991-1999. Never-mind the lack of common sense, but according to the decisions from this Tribunal Serbians almost routinely found guilty, (4 Serbians died in prison, including Milosevic). For my money Milosevic was indeed guilty and should have been tried, but by his own people not by this slanted "Tribunal" . By the same token the current leadership of Serbia is riddled with disunity and fails to envision a date when they too will be judged â we only don't know by what court or at what time. The unrests in Serbia are a pretty strong indication that something is not exactly right within the grasp of the present Serbian Government structure. If the arrest of a true war criminal sparked such protests â there is something wrong with the entire country, unless this arrest is the straw which broke the camel's back and the people are revolting against their present government. I have even heard (through the fine print in their local press) that an uprising is not ruled out as an answer to the incompetence of the present government.