The Hague tribunal is a court I cannot believe in and whose political decisions I cannot accept, Banja Luka Mayor Drasko Stanivukovic said Wednesday commenting on the life sentence which the Residual Mechanism for Criminal Courts delivered against the former general of the Bosnian Serb Army Ratko Mladic.
“The past is such that we look at it differently. In the difficult times of war, all peoples suffered equally terrible, terrifying sacrifices, whose outcome is that Serbs have received 1,000 years of prison sentences, while other citizens, peoples only 40 or 20 years. That is a Court that I cannot believe in and I cannot accept those political decisions. The years of imprisonment and responsibility for some are increasing, while others seem to be simply not responsible. It may be subjective to say that my people made the greatest sacrifices, but they certainly didn't come out of the war way the courts want present it,” Stanivukovic said.
“The Hague Tribunal wasn't interested in the suffering of Serb civilians in Sarajevo, in Podrinje, in the Neretva Valley, in the western Krajina municipalities, in Posavina, in Ozren… The Hague Tribunal left 30,000 Serb victims, of which 7,000 were civilians without truth and justice,” Stannivukovic added.
Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb army general, was sentenced to life in prison by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT), Tuesday, confirming the first instance verdict.
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