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May 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
9am: The former commander of the Bosnian Serb army appeared in court
wearing a dark grey suit and tie. Looking fit and alert, Gen Mladic gave a
thumbs-up to family and Serbian supporters in the public gallery.
UN prosecutors are setting out their case for his indictment on 11 counts of
genocide, and war crimes allegedly carried out in the Bosnia’s brutal
1992-95 civil war that killed 100,000 and left 2.2 million others homeless.
”Four days ago marked the 20th anniversary since Mladic became commander in
chief of the Bosnian Serb army,” said Dermot Groome, the UN prosecutor. “On
that day, he assumed the mantle of the criminal goal of ethnically cleansing
Bosnia. On that day he began his involvement in serious crimes.”
”By the time Mladic and his troops murdered thousands in Srebrenica … they
were well-rehearsed in the craft of murder.”
Prosecutors said that personal notebooks seized by police from Mladic’s hiding
place would be an important source of evidence in the trial.
Excerpts shown in the court noted “war objectives, relationship to non-Serbian
inhabitants” and the Bosnian Serb campaign “to separate from the Muslims and
Croats forever”.
Hand written notes, in Mladic’s hand, also noted plans to turn Sarajevo into a
Serb city, with a small Muslim quarter.
Two days ahead of the trial, his lawyers filed a request for a six month
adjournment of the hearing, saying they did not have enough time to prepare
for the defence. The UN judge criticised prosecutors for failing to disclose
evidence to the defence but allowed the trial to proceed.
Gen. Mladic, 70, is appearing in the International Criminal Court of the
former Yugoslavia where Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader and
commander in chief, is also on trial. He was arrested a year ago after 16
years on the run in Serbia.
Both men are held to be responsible for genocide, war crimes and crimes
against humanity in a campaign of ethnic cleansing to rid multi-ethnic
Bosnia of Croats and Muslims.
Nicknamed the “Butcher of Bosnia”, Mladic is infamous for his commanding and
swaggering presence at Srebrenica in July 1995, when almost 8,000 Muslim men
and boys were systematically murdered as UN peacekeeping troops stood by and
watched.
UN prosecutors also hold him responsible for the 44-month siege of Sarajevo
where his Bosnian Serb forces waged a “terror campaign” of sniping and
shelling that left 10,000 civilians dead.
Mladic is accused of ordering his troops to “cleanse” Bosnian towns, driving
out Croats, Muslims and other non-Serb residents to create a “Greater
Serbia”.
After the war, Mladic continued his military career in Serbia but went into
hiding in 2000 after the government of Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian
president fell.
Milosevic died in detention on March 11, 2006, a few months before a verdict
in his trial for genocide and other war crimes in Croatia, Bosnia and
Kosovo. Karadzic is still on trial.
An indicted war criminal, Mladic was on the run until May 2011 when Serbian
forces arrested him at a relative’s house in Lazarevo, north eastern Serbia
and flown to a prison in The Hague a few days later.
He is a diminished figure from the 20 year old news footage showing him as a
strutting commander in military fatigues but has retained his defiance and
allegiance to extreme Serbian nationalism.
”The whole world knows who I am… I defended my country and my people,” he said
on his first appearance in the UN tribunal last June.
”I am very old man and I am close to my end as far as my health is concerned.
It matters what kind of legacy I will leave behind, among my people.”
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