Written by The Fact's Daily 05/03/2011
Fifteen or more years are not enough to erase the horrors and aftermath of a bloody war that 'the Balkans from 1992 to 1995 and who left open wounds and recriminations in the two fields, after having made tens of thousands of victims. If the 'most wanted 1' of the conflict remains the Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, whose failure to deliver to international justice is one of the obstacles to the path of Serbia towards the EU, the Austrian police arrested on Thursday ', at the airport in Vienna, the Vienna, the Bosnian General Jovan Divjak, shot by a Serbian arrest warrant for war crimes. The general was making a stopover in Vienna because he was from Sarajevo to Bologna.
between Serbian forces and Bosnian protests, the immediate one and the other, the Austrian interior ministry confirmed that the retired general now has 74-years-was delivered to the court for its ruling on the extradition request Serbia. Yesterday, the court in Korneuburg, Lower Austria, confirmed the detention of 14 days for Divjak, a decision against which the general can 'appeal. But an examination of the practice of extradition could take months. More or less spontaneous demonstrations were held yesterday in Sarajevo before the embassies of Austria and Serbia, and others are announced today.
While diplomatic messages arriving in Vienna to sign the contrasting-Bosnia in Belgrade denounced the attempt to relativize its responsibilities, Serbia announced the formalization of the extradition request, also in Belgrade, where Divjak is also considered a traitor, c 'is critics of the arrest: NGOs argue that the authorities would be better used to arrest and deliver Mladic to the Hague Court as well as Goran Hadzic, the last two Serbian war criminals sought by international justice.
General is one of the 19 officers arrested Bosnian Serb accused by the judiciary for the attack on a column of the then Yugoslav Army in Sarajevo, in May 1992, at the beginning of the conflict. According to the reconstruction of Serbia, Yugoslavia 42 soldiers were killed, 73 wounded and 215 captured in the action launched against the Bosnian army column jusoslava, despite the convoy was escorted by UN forces and had been guaranteed to be able to leave the city free . After that, the Bosnian Serb forces besieged Sarajevo for 43 months, at least 14 000 victims.
mionistero The Serbian Justice confirmed that it had issued an international arrest warrant for Divjak, a Serb who deserted 'by the Yugoslav army after the bombing of Sarajevo in April 1992 and will step' to the Bosnian military, predominantly Muslim , where he became Deputy Chief of Staff.
Leaving his uniform, Divjak, which in Bosnia has the respect of all ethnic groups, has set up an NGO, 'L'education build Bosnia', which has enabled hundreds of Bosnian war orphans to obtain scholarships.
is not the first time that a senior Bosnian was arrested abroad, pursuant to a warrant of arrest for acts dating back to the Serbian Serbian-Bosnian conflict. Last year, at Heathrow, the largest airport in London, was stopped Ejup Ganic, a member of the Presidency of the Bosnian war, but a British court the issue 'for lack of evidence against him. And the mayor of Tuzla in the days of the conflict, Ilija Jurisic, was arrested in Belgrade in 2008 and released last year, after more than two years in prison, also for lack of evidence.
The issue of war crimes committed in conflicts in the Balkans in the Nineties continues Trubar in relations between the republics of former Yugoslavia, at that time hostile to one another. Thursday ', for example, Serbia has dropped, again for lack of evidence, the charges against a Croat in Bosnia arrested on arrest in Belgrade.
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