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To: mark502inf

Mark, many high positioned officials from Serbia went volunteraly to Hague as well, and their decision was praised by Church and Government.
However, I sense that you're looking at this from different point of view.


15 posted on 04/06/2005 1:21:28 AM PDT by Nennsy (www.kosovo.com/forum/)
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To: Nennsy
Mark, many high positioned officials from Serbia went volunteraly to Hague as well,

That's great. But Nennsy, surely you can see the difference between someone who voluntarily resigns as Prime Minister and reports to court the day after being indicted versus people who take 5 or 6 years to get there and must be "encouraged" with veiled threats of arrest and stipends for families and so on. And further, there are still many indicted war criminals running free in Serbia or the RS.

With the US with-holding aid, NATO denying entry into Partnership for Peace, and the EU entry assessment along with the future status of Kosovo negotiations approaching, the government of Serbia is starting to cooperate.

It would be nice for the Serbs to try their own war-criminals, but so far that hasn't happened. And after Djndjic was assassinated and then Kostunica almost lost his job just for admitting the Serbs committed war crimes; I understand the reluctance of the Serb leadership to take action. The current tactic of giving their families gifts and lauding the indicted persons as heroes going to the Hague as a sacrifice for the good of the country seems to be working pretty well in encouraging surrenders. Plus it sells well to those in Serbia who still haven't figured out the reality of their country's malfeasance under Milosevic.

16 posted on 04/06/2005 6:09:27 AM PDT by mark502inf
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