War Crimes – Un Chefording Chiritions Serbia and Croatia

“80 to 90 percent of the procedures in Croatia go against Serbs that are not present in Croatia. It is the absolute exception that Croatia is being prosecuted in Croatia. Very few procedures are being carried out in Serbia,” Bramertz told the daily newspaper “The Standard” (Friday edition).

The last acquittal in a process of forced relocation in Srebrenica also shows “that the indictment did bad work,” said the Belgian lawyer, who was responsible for the accusations against the Bosnian Serbs guides Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić. The two and “all brains of the crimes of the Yugoslavia Tribunal” are convicted. “The genocide in Srebrenica is ultimately recognized, also from the International Court of Justice,” Brantertz emphasized on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the murder of about 8,000 forest sniacs by Bosnian-Serbian troops in the East Bosnic city.

“I’m not sure if Karadžić and Mladić would be arrested today”
“I’m not sure if Karadžić and Mladić would be arrested today if they were still in general,” said Brantertz, referring to the changed mood in Serbia. Also in Croatia, dozens of legal well -being for the tribunal “still not answered after years”. Both countries would pretend that he had only been a civil war in Bosnia that had nothing to do. “We are in the absurd situation that about 300 alleged perpetrators who have committed mass crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina a few kilometers away in Serbia and Croatia, without chances of extradition,” he criticized.

Brantertz also supported the international criminal jurisdiction that was recently under pressure – for example because of the indictment against Israeli politicians. 20 years ago he was more “optimistic and idealistic,” he admitted. “Today I am still idealistic, because there is no alternative to the international judiciary; but I am much more realistic in relation to what is available and cannot be achieved.”