Thursday, July 8, 2010

Refighting the Balkan War

Can't the imperial powers let the wounds heal?

"The former leader’s arrest has reignited tensions between former foes Bosnia and Serbia, which have been making slow progress toward reconciliation"

And everyone knows the divisive, war-mongering Globe-kickers can't let that happen.

"Hearing opens in UK for ex-Bosnian leader" by ASSOCIATED PRESS | July 6, 2010

LONDON — A former Bosnian vice president arrested on war crimes charges objected yesterday to his potential extradition from Britain to Serbia, saying authorities in Belgrade won’t give him a fair trial.

Ejup Ganic told reporters outside a London court that Serbia’s extradition request was politically motivated and distorted facts.

Sort of like reading an AmeriKan newspaper.

He made the comments as a hearing opened to determine whether he should be sent to Belgrade to be prosecuted for atrocities he allegedly committed in 1992 during the Bosnian conflict....

When are we going to see BUSH, BLIAR, and the ISRAELI LEADERSHIP before them?

Ganic was arrested by British authorities at London’s Heathrow Airport in March on a Serbian warrant accusing Ganic of ordering attacks on a hospital and retreating Serb soldiers in May 1992 in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.

Ganic denies the claims, and current Bosnian leaders insist the charges are part of a campaign to minimize Serb guilt for the 1992-95 war that tore apart the Balkans.

The court will take weeks to decide on his extradition.

The former leader’s arrest has reignited tensions between former foes Bosnia and Serbia, which have been making slow progress toward reconciliation after the end of the conflict.

The two sides still dispute blame in the conflict....

Some of the allegations had been investigated by the UN War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague, but prosecutors there decided there was insufficient evidence to prosecute.

Oh, so he was ONE OF OUR WAR CRIMINALS!!!!

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And what is a great way to rip open old wounds?

"Blast kills 1 at Serb protest in Kosovo" by Associated Press | July 3, 2010

MITROVICA, Kosovo — An explosion tore through a Serb protest in an ethnically divided town of Kosovo yesterday, fatally injuring one man and leaving 11 others with shrapnel wounds, police and doctors said.

Why did Kyrgyzstan just pop into mind?

It was the latest in a series of violent incidents in Mitrovica over the last two years, as minority Serbs in northern Kosovo have rejected the country’s independence from Serbia and bridle against the majority ethnic Albanian authority in Pristina.

Kosovo police said a hand grenade went off yesterday in the crowd of about 1,000 Serbs protesting the opening of a civil registry office run by Pristina in the Serb-dominated part of Mitrovica.

Shots also were heard at the gathering, and 11 people were injured in the blast, police said. NATO-led peacekeepers and European Union officers were also deployed to the site....

Hmmmmmm.

They were AROUND, huh?

Wounded protester Zoran Rakic, according to Serbia’s state-run Tanjug news agency, was quoted as saying the protest had been peaceful until the blast. Authorities were still investigating the incident.

Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi blamed the blast on “careless armed Serb protesters,’’ suggesting a grenade had detonated accidentally....

Uh-huh.

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Also see:
Musical Mass Graves in the Balkans

Yeah, you want to be left standing; otherwise, you are getting MSM s*** dumped on you.