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is a hero who prevented genocide against Serbs in BiH and Croatia,” Republika Srpska’s President Milorad Dodik told the media.
Bosnian Serb politicians also said that the verdict will further separate the entities in the country and will raise tensions in the already very unstable country, in which Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats live in two autonomous entities – the Muslim-Croat Federation and Republika Srpska.
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic that “it is not day neither for joy nor for sorrow, but to think what we want from future”, b92 reported.
“Let’s not bow heads to anyone, but go to the future, to think where and how we and our children shall live, how we shall protect peace and stability in the region. [...] Serbia has always respected the victims of other peoples, I am not sure that others have shown this kind of piety to ours. And this is our job,” Vucic said.
Mladic was first indicted in 1995 but Nato troops did not arrest him immediately after the war ended, fearing this could only be achieved with a major battle and significant bloodshed. In 1997, when international forces started hunting war criminals, Mladic went into hiding and eventually
Soros rebuts Hungarian government smear campaign in rare retaliation
dubbed the Soros plan, in the form of the latest round of a national consultation, involving the sending out of millions of questionnaires, backed up by a massive media and billboard campaign.
Opponents say the campaign is not only stoking
went to Serbia where he was allegedly protected by the army.
He was finally arrested in 2011, after the EU put serious pressure on Serbia to deliver him as a condition for considering financial aid and eventual talks on EU membership with the country.
Mladic’s trial began in 2012. He declined to plead and the court pleaded not guilty on his behalf. The Bosnian Serb military leader is allegedly in poor health and his lawyers have made attempts to persuade the tribunal to send him to Serbia for medical treatment, as well as to postpone the sentence hearing.
The Bosnian war broke out after Bosniaks and Croats voted for independence from the former Yugoslav federation in a 1992 referendum boycott- ed by Serbs, which wanted to stay part of former Yugoslavia.
The Hague tribunal has already convicted 15 people for the massacres. Three were given
life sentences — two former officers from the Bosnian Serb army’s main headquarters, Zdravko Tolimir and Ljubisa Beara, as well as former Bosnian Serb Army Drina Corps security officer Vujadin Popovic.
anti-Muslim sentiment but employs anti-Semitic tropes reminiscent of the 1930s, as well as cost- ing taxpayers billions of forints.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who himself studied in Oxford University thanks to a grant by Soros in the 1990s, has seized every opportunity to hit at him, making the issue of migration a top cam- paign theme ahead of the 2018 general election. The government claims that the Democrat-sup- porting liberal is controlling the EU decision-mak- ing process in promoting illegal immigration.
“I can’t remain silent anymore because I fear that the recent announcement that the Hungar-