Dumm, Dümmer und am Dümsten sind die Balkan Nationalisten, identisch mit Kriegs Verbrecher und primitiv Kriminellen, welche heute Minister Ämter oft ausüben. Nationalisten, Kriegs Verbrecher, Drogen Bosse und Mörder, sind oft Partner der EU, US und Deutschen Politiker, wo man schnell weiß wo heute die sogenannte Demokratie Aufbau Politik steht.
news 24 Jun 14
Bosnian Professor ‘Beaten for Criticising War Criminal’
Mostar University professor Slavo Kukic said he was beaten up in a bid to silence his criticism of the hero’s welcome given to a freed Bosnian Croat war criminal.
Sarajevo
 Slavo Kukic in hospital after the attack. Photo: Klix. |
Kukic told BIRN on Tuesday that he was attacked because he spoke out against the welcome party thrown for returning convict Dario Kordic in his hometown of Busovaca, which was attended by representatives of the Croatian Democratic Union, the party that governs the Mostar area.
“This was the price I had to pay. This had nothing to do with by professional career as a professor, but had to do with the fact that I often stand out as an intellectual and am critical,” said Kukic, an ethnic Croat who often takes Bosnian Croat political leaders to task.
“The day before the attack, I gave an interview to Al Jazeera and spoke in a critical way about that welcome [for Kordic]. No one should be proud of such an event,” he added.
The professor said that his assailant entered his office at the economics faculty in Mostar on Monday and asked him whether he was Slavo Kukic. When he said yes, the man started hitting him with a baseball bat.
Police said they were looking for the culprit but could not comment on his possible motives.
“The attacker used a baseball bat and hit Kukic on the head and other parts of the body,” Srecko Bosnjak, spokesperson for the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton Interior Ministry, told BIRN.
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| Dario Kordic during his trial at the Hague Tribunal. |
Kordic was released earlier this month after serving 17 years of his 25-year war crimes sentence for ordering an attack on the village of Ahmici in 1993, during which 116 Bosniak civilians, including children, women and the elderly, were murdered.
A former leader of a self-proclaimed wartime statelet called the Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna, Kordic also received a welcome from supporters at Zagreb airport, and a Croatian Catholic bishop led a service of thanksgiving for his return.
The alleged glorification of a war criminal sparked a protest by Croatian human-rights activists, who rallied in Zagreb carrying placards with the names of the victims of the 1993 massacre in Ahmici.
Judgments at the Hague Tribunal have said that Herceg-Bosna was founded with the intention of splitting the territory from Bosnia and Herzegovina and uniting it with a ‘Greater Croatia’.
Six of its other leaders were convicted last year of taking part in a joint criminal enterprise aimed at forcibly removing Bosniaks, and sentenced to 111 years in total………..http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/mostar-professor-suspects-he-was-beaten-over-criticism
03 Jul 14
Croatian Serb Leader Opens War Crimes Defence
Former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic appeared as the first witness in his own defence at the Hague Tribunal, insisting that he only ever tried to protect the Serb minority in Croatia in wartime.
Belgrade
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| Goran Hadzic |
Hadzic on Thursday began setting out his defence at the International Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, ICTY, with a denial of all the charges against him.
“What would be my satisfaction if I would take revenge on innocent people just because they belong to another ethnicity?” he asked in his opening statement.
The former president of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, a self-proclaimed Serb statelet in Croatia during wartime, Hadzic is accused of a series of crimes including the deportation of tens of thousands of non-Serbs and the murders of hundreds more from June 1991 to December 1993.
But he said he was not in a position to either control or prosecute the war crimes that took place in Croatia during 1990s.
“I did not decide about that, neither I was interfering in the work of courts, nor in that of prosecutors,” he said.
He also denied that he was responsible for the destruction of religious buildings.
In the second part of the trial session, Hadzic was questioned by his own lawyer, who asked him to reflect on events prior to the war that started in Croatia in 1991.
“I was never politically active before the war….The first serious position I got was a member of the local assembly of town of Vukovar in 1991,” Hadzic said.
According to the indictment, Hadzic, as a leader of local Serbs in Vukovar, was responsible for aiding and abetting crimes that took place in the area and for not preventing and not punishing other perpetrators.
Speaking about his relationship with the authorities in Zagreb, he said that in the beginning, cooperation was fine, but it later deteriorated due to “nationalistic” messages from the Croatian capital.
“At that time, as a Serb from Pacetina [his home village near Vukovar], I perceived Croatia as my state with pride. Croatia was my homeland and the homeland of my family for the past 300 years,” Hadzic said.
He underlined that he never had anything against Croatia as part of Yugoslavia, but did object to it becoming an independent country.
“We Serbs [from Croatia] wanted to remain part of Yugoslavia,” he explained.
Hadzic was initially indicted in June 2004, and after being at large for almost seven years, he was arrested by the Serbian authorities in July 2011 – the last fugitive wanted by the Tribunal to be sent to The Hague.
The prosecution finished presenting its case in October last year and the defence will now have 140 hours to present its evidence.
The trial continues on Friday.
