Ratko Mladić now at the Hague; is Serbia closer to joining EU?
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This Friday, June 3, 2011, Ratko Mladić, the man dubbed the "Butcher of Bosnia" will be asked to plead to 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in the UN Court in The Hague. After being arrested on May 26th in a village in north-eastern Serbia, Mladić was transferred on Tuesday to the ICTY Detention Unit in The Hague after being arrested May 26 in a village in north-eastern Serbia. Mladić can enter a plea on Friday or decide to do so in a month.
Created in 1993 by the United Nations, the ICTY operates under rules of procedure and evidence drawn mainly from Anglo-Saxon law: the pretrial stage especially allows the defense to discover the evidence gathered by the prosecution in its investigation.
Brussels, the de-facto capital of the European Union, had stated in the past that all barriers Serbia's participation in the EU would be lifted as soon as Belgrade would extradite Ratko Mladić, former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army during the 1992-95 war in the Balkans. In 2008. Belgrade signed the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with Brussels in 2008 but Amsterdam blocked Serbia's entry at the time, as it considered Mladić's extradition a 'matter of honor'; Dutch soldiers had been the ones that protected Srebrenica's refugee camps, where the greatest massacre of Muslims had taken place. Now that Dutch objections will be automatically lifted, Serbia may have its ticket to join the European Union.
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Created in 1993 by the United Nations, the ICTY operates under rules of procedure and evidence drawn mainly from Anglo-Saxon law: the pretrial stage especially allows the defense to discover the evidence gathered by the prosecution in its investigation.
Brussels, the de-facto capital of the European Union, had stated in the past that all barriers Serbia's participation in the EU would be lifted as soon as Belgrade would extradite Ratko Mladić, former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army during the 1992-95 war in the Balkans. In 2008. Belgrade signed the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with Brussels in 2008 but Amsterdam blocked Serbia's entry at the time, as it considered Mladić's extradition a 'matter of honor'; Dutch soldiers had been the ones that protected Srebrenica's refugee camps, where the greatest massacre of Muslims had taken place. Now that Dutch objections will be automatically lifted, Serbia may have its ticket to join the European Union.
Continue reading on Examiner.com Ratko Mladić now at the Hague; is Serbia closer to joining EU? - National Foreign Policy | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-national/ratko-mladi-now-at-the-hague-...
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Aimee_Kligman
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Isn't odd how it's mostly Serbs that make it to the ICC? When are we going to see the likes of Bashir, Mubarak, Assad, the monarchs of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Ben Ali, extradited? If they are trying Mubarak in Egypt, then why didn't they try Mladic in Serbia?
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