SARAJEVO, June 29 (Hina) - The extradition of Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague war crimes tribunal is a big event and its historic importance is indisputable, but justice will not be done until all war crimes suspects end in The Hague
as well, most media and politicians in Bosnia agreed on Friday. Almost all reactions which came after it was confirmed that Milosevic had been extradited insist on the fact that such an act on the part of Serbia's authorities will be truly meaningful only when both Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic end in Scheveningen, the Hague prison. Alija Izetbegovic, a long-time Bosniak political leader who sat face to face with Milosevic on many occasions, was not euphoric in commenting on the news of the extradition of his war opponent. "I think the situation in gradually becoming clearer and that this will have a positive impact," he told TV BH. The Milosevic trial will
SARAJEVO, June 29 (Hina) - The extradition of Slobodan Milosevic to
the Hague war crimes tribunal is a big event and its historic
importance is indisputable, but justice will not be done until all
war crimes suspects end in The Hague as well, most media and
politicians in Bosnia agreed on Friday.
Almost all reactions which came after it was confirmed that
Milosevic had been extradited insist on the fact that such an act on
the part of Serbia's authorities will be truly meaningful only when
both Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic end in Scheveningen, the
Hague prison.
Alija Izetbegovic, a long-time Bosniak political leader who sat
face to face with Milosevic on many occasions, was not euphoric in
commenting on the news of the extradition of his war opponent.
"I think the situation in gradually becoming clearer and that this
will have a positive impact," he told TV BH. The Milosevic trial
will be a good opportunity to establish individual responsibility
and exempt the Serb people from collective guilt, he said.
The first media reactions point to a disappointment with the way the
"Balkan executioner" has ended where he should have been long ago.
Oslobodjenje daily said in an editorial today Milosevic had not
been taken to The Hague as a person responsible for heinous crimes
but more or less as a political corpse about whom nobody in Serbia
cared much about anymore.
Everything that happened in the end boils down to trading in which
Belgrade will even profit as it counts on receiving more than $1
billion in foreign donations in case of concrete cooperation with
the Hague tribunal, said Oslobodjenje.
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