By Hans Vogel
The entire “Western” press was up in arms over Radovan Karadzic's having succesfully postponed the beginning of his trial at The Hague with one day. Most media reported the event with indignant or scathing undertones, venting a mixture of surprise and anger. If one would take such reports at face value, it seems Mr. Karadzic has already been convicted. He is standing trial for allegedly having ordered the killing in 1995 of some 8,000 Bosnians at Srebrenica.
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| Radovan Karadzic (AP photo) |
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This brings up the question: “Will Mr. Karadzic get a fair trial?”
One could answer this with another question: “is the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia a neutral body?”
The answer to this question is an unequivocal “no”. The ICTY is in fact a classic kangaroo court. It was created, funded and staffed by NATO, that is the US and its European vassal states. The very countries that destroyed Yugoslavia and that are therefore mainly responsible for the ensuing wars and violence, have created the ICTY in order to cover up their own crimes and put the blame on a small group of defenseless people: mainly Serbs and a handful of Croats. Curiously but not surprisingly, the ICTY is barred from prosecuting NATO soldiers, politicians and officials, because it has explicitly been ruled out these could possibly be guilty of war crimes.
A court that has its hands tied in such a way is not a court of justice, it is a political weapon, a propaganda instrument. Therefore, nobody on the ICTY staff, none of its judges can be considered an honest, decent person. They have sacrificed their conscience in exchange for money, (dubious) prestige and career advancement. Each and every single individual on the ICTY payroll has, like Faust, sold his soul to the devil.
Why a special court for Yugoslavia?
Until its dissolution in 1991-1992, Yugoslavia was one of the few truly independent states of Europe. By managing to liberate itself from Nazi occupation without major foreign assistance. Apart from some weapons shipments from the US and Britain and the participation of some Soviet troops in the war's final phases, it was the Yugoslavs who freed themselves. Most of these were communist Serb guerillas (“partisans”), aided by smaller numbers of progressive Croats, Slovenes and others. The Bosnians (Serb speaking muslims) and Albanians (from Kosovo) for the most part collaborated with the Nazis, with many young males enlisting in special SS divisions. Until 1945, Croatia was a Nazi puppet state run by the fanatical fascist Ustasha movement. Thus when Yugoslavia declared itself a republic in 1946, it owed allegiance neither to the Soviet Union, nor to the US, the two superpowers that came to dominate Europe after the defeat of the Nazis.
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