On March 20, what happened was supposed to happen in international politics: the so-called Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MOMUT) sentenced the first President of the Republika Srpska Radovan Karadzic to life imprisonment. In response to the fact that he appealed against the earlier sentence of forty years in prison. For the seventy-three-year-old Karadzic, replacing a forty-year term with a life term means little. It is hard to imagine that, having received forty years in prison in 2016, he would have lived to see his release. But this sentence means a lot to world and European politics. Rather, for the current European ideology.
What is a "residual mechanism"
Why is the MOMUT Appeals Chamber defined in the previous paragraph as “so-called”? Yes, because this structure is akin to structures from some kind of utopian novel. The structure is absolutely fantastic, created, by and large, only to complete the “duly” cases of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, dissolved in 2017, and which has no serious independent legitimacy. Despite the fact that the work of this Tribunal itself, created by the UN Security Council Resolution in May 1993, raises a lot of serious questions that are not answered. In general, he was supposed to consider all cases by 2009, and by 2010 to complete all appeals processes. But since several high-profile cases, including the Karadzic case, were not completed, the ICTY worked until 2017. Perhaps we will someday, when the geopolitical circumstances change, become witnesses of other lawsuits - already over former judges of this, more than strange, body of “international justice”.
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How Karadzic became a politician
Actually, Radovan Karadzic was a practicing doctor, psychiatrist. Such a typical European intellectual. Often, talking about Karadzic, it is mentioned that he is a poet. It is unlikely that he would go into politics. But when Yugoslavia collapsed, and it suddenly became clear that the Serbs who lived in their historical territories were separated by the borders of the new states, Karadzic came out with the thesis that all Serbs have the right to create their own single state. This is also a forced thesis. It just happened in historical circumstances, and it happened during the reign of Broz Tito that it was the Serbs who ended up in different republics of Yugoslavia. These borders were artificial, drawn not according to the principles of the traditional settlement of one or another people, but for some other reasons. It was further, as during the collapse of the USSR: each former republic, Croatia or Bosnia and Herzegovina, intended to leave the former common state, preserving its territories cut by the previous regime without taking into account the interests of large ethnic groups living there. In this case, not taking into account the interests of the Serbs. But they resisted. It was then that Karadzic came up with his thesis, becoming the leader of the Bosnian Serbs. If he had been heard, then perhaps the case could have done without war.
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What are they accusing Karadzic
Karadzic is accused of an act of genocide in Srebrenica - the murder of eight thousand Bosnian Muslims. Despite the fact that he was not a military leader. The military leader was Ratko Mladic. Later also convicted ICTY. But now it’s not about that, but about the virtually unproven genocide under the leadership of Karadzic. Of course, the Yugoslav wars, which merged in fact into one big war with the direct intervention of NATO and the aggregate West in general, were bloody and dirty, like any civil, let alone ethnic war. On the part of the Serbian military units, cruelty towards the prisoners and reprisals against non-combatants also took place. But as for the genocide, the accusations are clearly lame. On the contrary, there are facts of genocide on the opposing side.
Siege of Srebrenica
Take for example the same Srebrenica - a Muslim enclave in the depths of the territory controlled by the Serbs. Already in March 1993, the city of Srebrenica itself was actually under siege by the troops of the Republika Srpska. This situation lasted until mid-summer 1995. The UN Security Council was even forced to declare Srebrenica a "security zone" in 1993. Six hundred Dutch peacekeepers were introduced there, and there should not have been any military operations. In fact, the situation of the besieged did not improve much. However, what led to this situation?
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Bloody adventures of Orich
Back in 1992, Srebrenica was occupied by armed groups of one of the most inhumane field commanders of that war from the Bosnian Muslims, Nasser Oric. Until that moment, in Srebrenica, Muslims made up about two-thirds of the population. However, Orich expelled the Serbs from the city, and even arranged a real terror for the Serbian population in its vicinity. His thugs burned fifty Serbian villages. One of the most brutal crimes on the part of his fighters, which was reported in various testimonies and media reports, was the “Christmas massacre” when old people and children were killed on January 7, 1993 in the Serbian village of Kravitsa. The youngest of the children killed was only four years old. The memory of the bloody adventures of Oricha is still alive. A memorial service is held in Republika Srpska every year in memory of those who died in the vicinity of Srebrenica. Serbs claim that 3267 civilians and soldiers died there. It is noteworthy that Nasser Orich was acquitted by the Hague Tribunal. This is about the objectivity of the ICTY decisions.
What is the "genocide in Srebrenica"
So, Karadzic is accused of genocide of the Muslim population in Srebrenica. However, what was happening there at that time? In the summer, namely in July, 1995, the troops of the Republika Srpska nevertheless decided to occupy the city. Peacekeepers armed only with small arms retreated. And now, fifteen thousand men of military age, covered by regular Muslim units, advanced from the city. However, on July 12, this convoy was ambushed, and part of it was destroyed. Then it was stated that the Serbian military, following the orders of Ratko Mladic, shot prisoners. They counted eight thousand dead. However, part of that column died during the clash. In addition, this number of victims is accepted only on the basis of data released by Bosnian Muslims. Moreover, the accusers failed to document precisely this number of victims. Yes, mass graves have been found. But some of them later turned out to be old destroyed cemeteries, and some were indeed burial places for the victims, but … the Serbian victims of the lawlessness of the militants justified by the tribunal of Oric. Moreover, the Army of the Republika Srpska, before the actual hostilities, evacuated children, old people and women from Srebnitsa. According to the World Health Organization, more than thirty-five thousand refugees were removed from the city. This is not very consistent with the accusations of the Bosnian Serbs of the genocide of the Muslim population of Srebrenica.
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The so-called International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia used in its work a doctrine that would be more suitable for some courtroom of the times of the Third Reich. Namely, the doctrine of joint criminal acts. In fact, this is a collective responsibility. That is, if the Tribunal considered the Serbs guilty of genocide, then anyone who was somehow connected with the army or the administration of the Republika Srpska could be blamed. But here is the interesting thing. Of the one hundred and forty-two ICTY trials, ninety-two were held against the Serbs. There are only seven against Bosnian Muslims. Another thirty-three against the Croats, eight against the Kosovo Albanians and two against the Macedonians. Moreover, the full Croatian generals were acquitted, like most other non-Serb defendants. Including, we recall, the real guilty person in the tragedy of Srebrenitsa Nasser Oric. Or, here, Mladic and Karadzic received their sentences, and Milosevic died of a heart attack in the Hague prison, but Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian Muslim leader Aliya Izetbegovic died peacefully, escaping punishment. The principle of “joint criminal actions” was not applied to them.
