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DOUG SAUNDERS

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Latest comment posted at 6:18 PM EST 21/07/08

Arrest of Radovan Karadzic for war-crimes tribunal may ease Europe's attitude toward Serbian government ...Read the full article

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  1. Some Guy from Canada writes: What happened? Did who ever was hiding him lose power, die, or just get bored?
  2. hossein hajiagha from Victoria, Canada writes: because he kill the muslims he never punish and he may get nice vacation on one of the private Island, when the U.N get seriously in any crime ?
  3. Djordje Stefanovic from Toronto, Canada writes: As a Serbian-Canadian, I am glad that he was arrested and that the Serbs got him.

    The evidence from The Hague indicates that he directly gave the orders for the mass execution of the Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica. The respect for the innocent victims of this masacre demands that he gets a fair trial and, if found guilty, the harshest possible punishment.

    I hope Mladic will join him, the sooner the better.
  4. Mark Shore from Ottawa, Canada writes: Some Guy: Change of government in Serbia in the last election. I hear there's also an election scheduled in the US, but I don't expect change to come from THAT one.
  5. Alistair McLaughlin from Canada writes: Some Guy, I'm not sure what happened. But I'm quite certain what DID NOT happen. A haircut. He obviously had no access to a barber while in hiding.
  6. Slippery Slope from Canada writes: It's good that he was caught, by the Serbs no less. However, let the world know that there were not just Serb war criminals. The Croats and the Muslims were just as harshly involved. In fact, only the Croats ever attacked the Canadians, but we beat them off.
  7. globefan Eh from Canada writes: One down...a few more to go..
  8. Piltdown Man from Canada writes: ok two down 1 to go. Mladic will be the next PIFWIC caught and once he's behind bars the Serbs in Bosnia and in Serbia can start looking to the future instead of the past.

    PS don't you love it when writers use the word mastermind in their stories? If anything Karadzic was the puppet of Milosevic.
  9. M. Mark from Victoria, Canada writes: I'm glad they got him after all these years. Maybe there's hope that Osama bin Laden will be caught sometime before the year 2020.
  10. don cherry from toronto, writes: Mladic next? We can only hope.
  11. Steven Ferguson from Canada writes: It is wonderful that the Serbs are gradually turning this page of their history and beginning to assist the international authorities more vigourously. Karadzic will hopefully now get a fair trial, and if found guilty, spend the rest of his life in a miserable prision.

    Slippery Slope, there were war criminals from the other factions, and they have been going to trial. However, the blood spilt by the Serbs, through scum such as Karadzic, far exceeded the scale of evil from the other sides.
  12. Emma Hawthorne from Canada writes: The UN War Crimes Tribunal is on a roll. As a result the world will be safer.
  13. don cherry from toronto, writes: As long as Serbia is forced to keep begging to get in the EU they will keep turning in these animals. We must hope the EU stays strong and doesn't let them join until they are all captured and turned over.
  14. Elmo Harris from Niagara, Canada writes: It's about time!
  15. Harbinger from Out West from Canada writes: He is most likely gonna die of old age and good food waiting and participating in his trial. These things take time. More than not, he might have an undisclosed ailment that may be terminal. He never saw a doctor while he was hiding did he? Same old. Same old.
  16. CM Chen from Toronto, Canada writes: Good news. Actually better news was that the Serbian gov't did the arrest. It shows Serbia has now moved beyond some of its darkest hours in partial support for the Bosnian ethnic cleansing.

    Serbians have also suffered in the sense they lost traditional homeland within Bosnia and Kosovo. Hopefully the Europe of the future will be less ethnic nationalism and more human respect.
  17. Jim **** from Canada writes: No need for harsh punishment, just a long incarceration. Harshness just makes martyrs. Potential war criminals need to know that they will be tried, and that they will lose their freedom for a long time.
  18. steve allan from Welland, Ontario, Canada writes: -----globefan Eh from Canada writes: One down...a few more to go.. ------

    A few more, like Bush and Blair!
  19. Bilderbergers beware you've robbed your last grave from Canada writes: I figure Osama Bin Laden has 3 years more of hiding before he is rated out...this would keep it in the timeline set by the capture of Radovic
  20. jeff franklin from Canada writes: GWB, Cheney, Rumsfeld,... the list of possible Hague attendees/ criminals just wouldn't be complete without these and other PNAC members too.

    Bring it On!
  21. Allan Eizinas from Simcoe, Canada writes: .
    Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic deserves to be arrested and tried for his role in the deaths of civilians.

    There are also a number of other leaders of countries who should be arrested and tried for their roles in the deaths of innocent civilians.
  22. V. Rick from Canada writes: It always amases me that it is only the Serbs who get the bad press. Liberal Clinton kills 10,000 Serbs and that is OK.

    All the Serbs in the rest of Bosnia got killed and cleansed and that is OK.

    No more Serbs in Croatia (got killed and kicked out) and that is OK.

    Serbs getting killed in Kosovo and that is OK.

    Not OK for the Serbs to defend themselves and retaliate. Serbs should have been Muslims and that would have helped them with the useful idiot liberal west.

    I'm not Serb but is it just me who sees the injustice here? What about the Bosnian, Kosovar and Croat war criminals? It wasn't only the Serbs! There was animalistic killing by all sides!
  23. Roop Misir from Toronto, Canada writes: Good news!

    Two of the most wanted Serb war criminals: Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic.

    Now for that other war criminal?
  24. Eric Oest from Toronto, Canada writes: While I certainly don't think that it was the greatest movie of 2007, Richard Shepard's 'The Hunting Party' tells the somewhat embellished story of a team of journalists who set out to interview and capture a wanted Serbian war criminal. The movie was based on an Esquire magazine article about a group of five journalists who actually considered trying to locate Karadzic.

    In what I consider to be a rather strange coincidence, the movie aired on TMN last night and, in the epilogue, the director pointed out that the UN, NATO and the Serbian government had done very little to actually try and capture him. Now, less than 24 hours later, he is apprehended. Go figure.
  25. Al B from Toronto, Canada writes: CM Chen from Toronto, Canada writes:
    'Serbians have also suffered in the sense they lost traditional homeland within Bosnia and Kosovo'

    Debatable. Serbs only moved into the Balkans in the 6th century AD. And it's not like they moved into virgin lands. All that claptrap about historic 'homeland' is just an excuse for troubles. Check out the ME.
  26. Grampa Canuck from Stirling, ON, Canada writes: Maybe, just maybe, were moving, ever so slowly, towards a world governed by laws and not one governed by unbridled ethnic hatred.

    One can hope.
  27. James C from Shenzhen, Canada writes: 'Alistair McLaughlin from Canada writes: Some Guy, I'm not sure what happened. But I'm quite certain what DID NOT happen. A haircut. He obviously had no access to a barber while in hiding.'
    _____

    try reading the article now. he apparently shaved his trademark silver man from time to time while in hiding, and the photo you see with this article is merely a 1994 file photo.
  28. kevin o'connor from toronto, Canada writes: hossein hajiagha from Victoria, Canada writes: because he kill the muslims he never punish and he may get nice vacation on one of the private Island, when the U.N get seriously in any crime ?

    You talkin' about Karadzic or Bashir?
  29. I R from White Rock, BC, Canada writes: don cherry from toronto, writes: Mladic next? We can only hope.

    Don, you echo my sentiments exactly.
  30. North of the Border from Canada writes: Alistair McLaughlin : I was going to ask if one of the crimes was having such a hideous hair-do but that'll do donkey. That'll do. ;)
  31. Saskatchewan Seal Hunter Club from Canada writes: Good show.
  32. Maurice Caissy-Cyr from Canada writes: The new Serbe governement just want to be part of the new europeen communauty, and some of those thing will, like arresting a few old guard gang, be welcome by international communauty. Nothing noble behind the gesture.

    Bush, Sharon and other will be convinted if the international want to. Otherwise they could kill as many to million like in Irak, Darfour, Rwanda, Palestine, south america, Pakistan, Afganistan and nobody care. Not just that nobody care but in some area, they wish to have cleansing.

    It is like arresting Sadam Hussein, big show, nothing change, and killing is worst that when he was in charge. Before, the kille where those again the regime, now it is ramdom and bigger.
  33. Sam G from Toronto, Canada writes: The real tragedy on the Balkans are the EU-sponsored pro-fascist regimes (or racist, if you like that better) in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia.

    Now I want to know what concessions to the Serbian government led to this capture. And who is going to get the 5 Mil. from the US govt for Karadzic's capture.
  34. Jack Robertson from Toronto, Canada writes: Don't expect Bashir to be tried given the stance of the Arab League and the petro-influence of some of its member states. It seems today that one is subject to 'international justice' only if the alleged crimes are committed against Muslims. When massacres and acts of terrorism are committed by Muslims, the perpetrators are treated with kid gloves. Karadzic is no more a criminal than those who dropped the bombs on Serbia during the U.S.-led attack on the country. Kosovo's Albanians,the Croatians and Bosnian Muslims also committed massacres. They just had the good fortune to be on the 'right' side during the U.S.-instigated fragmentation of the former Yugoslavia and the ensuing instability that was created.
  35. David Beentheredonethat from Canada writes: Good for Serbia. Good for the world. It's the first good news coming out of Serbia I can remember in many, many years. It gives one faint hope, but hope nonetheless, that we are progressing as a species towards greater compassion and understanding for and of all peoples.
  36. As Inch Live I from Toronto, Canada writes:

    Bring on the trial, I say. Ol' Radovan can join Slobodan and Saddam in traversing the river Styx.
  37. Mark From BC from Canada writes: I doubt he could get what we in Canada perceive to be a fair trial. He is being tried by a Napoleonic tribunal, instead of a Court of Common Law.

    Under common law the entire burden is based on the prosecution because of presumptive innocence. Under a Napoleonic tribunal, there is a burden to demonstrate innocence rather than merely create a reasonable doubt.

    It just seems so strange. Why would anybody with the intelligence of Mladic, or Karazdic order something so stupid?

    Martyring 8,000 men and boys, and infuriating 1 billion Muslims worldwide could have never been in the Bosinain Serbs long term interests.

    The question the world should be asking is who stood to gain the most from this terrible atrocity?

    If Mladic was smart, he should surrender to the US, where he would receive a fair trial, under the body of Common Law.
  38. As Inch Live I from Toronto, Canada writes:

    15 years for having a hairdo that looks like a Brillo pad.
  39. Shirley Jackson from Oliver, BC, Canada writes: Canadian Army officers must be crying in their beer tonight.
  40. dick brown from missy, Canada writes: Thank god the Americans did something back then, or MORE muslims would have been killed....like in Kuwait.
  41. FREE FROGGY from Canada writes: What are they going to do with him now -give him a brush-cut and dress him up like a Zebra?
    It would be an improvement!
  42. Robert P from Canada writes: Alistair McLaughlin from Canada writes: 'Some Guy, I'm not sure what happened. But I'm quite certain what DID NOT happen. A haircut. He obviously had no access to a barber while in hiding.'

    What? The two pictures in the article (at this moment since the G&M does change that) are from 1994 and 1995 when he was President. What a silly comment.
  43. A A from Canada writes: A sad day and a joyous day.

    A sad day it brings back some disturbing memories and reminds us that there is still gonocide in other parts of the world.

    A joyous day in the fact that he was caught and helps bring closure to a sad chapter in history.

    The sad thing is history will probably repeat itself in this region as it has over the century
  44. Mike with 77 Rules from Toronto, Canada writes: Magnum Crimen.
  45. Rangzen Bhu from Toronto, Canada writes: Why are small fish is always hunted down while big fish is venerated.
  46. Justin Ted from Toronto, Canada writes: Very few reports have been circulated here about Srebrenica and mujaheddin brigades 'visiting' Serbian villages overnight, killing, essentially, everything and everybody of Serbian origin, they can get hands on, and then returning to Srebrenica to hide behind UN soldiers. That lasted two years, before Serbian forces got into the town.

    The real story of Srebrenica.
    Canadian General Lewis MacKenzie:

    'Evidence given at The Hague war crimes tribunal casts serious doubt on the figure of 'up to' 8,000 Bosnian Muslims massacred. That figure includes 'up to' 5,000 who have been classified as missing. More than 2,000 bodies have been recovered in and around Srebrenica, and they include victims of the three years of intense fighting in the area. The math just doesn't support the scale of 8,000 killed.'

    'Nasar Oric, the Bosnian Muslim military leader in Srebrenica, is currently on trial in The Hague for war crimes committed during his 'defence' of the town. Evidence to date suggests that he was responsible for killing as many Serb civilians outside Srebrenica as the Bosnian Serb army was for massacring Bosnian Muslims inside the town.'

    Apparently 3,000 of the dead went on to vote in elections in Srebrenica afterwards.

    What about Croat and Muslim leaders who committed war crimes?
  47. Eat your Weedies from Canada writes: Also guilty (but not outed) all the average Serbs that support/ed what happened then. Of course, everyone is 'innocent' afterthefact- no?
  48. Khalid Rahim from Canada writes: There may have been ruthless killings on all sides during the struggle to gain freedom. But nothing surpassed the deliberate massacre of Muslim men and boys of Bosnia by these two Serb warlords and their henchmen. If
    O'Connor and Rick had kept their eyes and ears open? They would have known that the Bosnian Muslim charged was found not guilty by Western
    Judges who were not Muslims. No matter what theatrical mask one carries
    to speak from behind. The stage is set in this century to demonize different
    cultures and subjugate them in name of democracy.
  49. Carl Hansen from Canada writes: Eat your Weedies, some of them are good Canadians now.
  50. Byron Rottweiller from Canada writes: Well, chalk another one up for the UN and the War Crimes Tribunal!!

    Back in 2001 the idea of trying Bin Laden under Islamic law was talked about, but rejected by the US. The subsequent invasion didn't bring him to justice either.....Sometimes a police action works best, like when you're going after one person, not a whole country or army.

    Something to think about and appreciate..
  51. Roop Misir from Toronto, Canada writes: 'Khalid Rahim from Canada writes:

    'There may have been ruthless killings on all sides during the struggle to gain freedom. But nothing surpassed the deliberate massacre of Muslim men and boys of Bosnia by these two Serb warlords and their henchmen.'

    Is Mr. Bashir of Sudan going to be nabbed next for genocide of black (non-Arab) Muslims in Darfur??
  52. Freddie Fender from Canada writes: Good news!
  53. Mr. Justice from Anytown, Canada writes: Good. Now he can stand trial and both prosecution and defense can fairly represent their respective interests.

    It's called: 'due process of law'.
  54. D. B. from Greater Sask., Canada writes: War crimes were committed on all sides.
  55. Stan Consultant from Canada writes: Al B -- So, your plan is what? We should move everyone in the world back to the territories they held in 500 BC? Or 3,000 BC? Where's the timeline that you consider legitimate?
    Most posters see the detached perspective. Some little guy gets caught, and all the biggest inhuman monsters are still walking around free and clear -- smug, arrogant, and complacent in their freedom to murder and steal with impunity.
  56. Old blue from Canada writes: Yeah, good stuff...... and we can only hope that the cold blooded Croats who tortured and massacred the same number of Serbs are captured and tried.

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