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US: Karadzic's arrest shows Serbian commitment to justice

Jul 21, 2008, 23:46 GMT

Washington - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's arrest shows that Serbia is committed to bringing war-crimes suspects to justice, the White House said Monday.

Karadzic played a role in 'a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing' against non-Serbs and the mass murder of thousands of Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat civilians, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.

The United States has pressured Serbia for years to arrest Karadzic and turn him over to the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, and at times has withheld financial aid from Serbia.

'This operation is an important demonstration of the Serbian government's determination to honor its commitment to cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,' Perino said.

'There is no better tribute to the victims of the war's atrocities than bringing their perpetrators to justice,' she said, noting the 7,000 people massacred in 1995 in Srebrenica.



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Steve RealJul 22nd, 2008 - 04:56:24

What they did at that bridge was evil
and nobody in that town tried to stop it
all out of fear.

And I see these professional atheletes praising fear
as some sort of twisted motivator.
They are out of their minds !
Commercial propaganda design to subjigate the masses
through purely emotional control and response.

Can't these dum dums see this?

Fear gets people killed.
Fear is what got Europe into that place once again !
Fear is the mindkiller.

This is totally unacceptable
I want more arrests.
Get the rest of those demons because
this is the time to press on
into courage and away from fear.




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