From Bosnian Army General Jailed at The Hague:
Former Bosniak general Rasim Delic, accused of commanding a unit of “mujahedeen” who allegedly committed atrocities in the Bosnian war, has been jailed by The Hague…
Retired General Rasim Delic, 59, was found guilty by a first instance verdict for command responsibility.
He was sentenced for cruel treatment as a violation of the laws of the customs of war in relation to events in Livade and Kamenica Camp, where Mujahadeen forces held captured Bosnian Serb troops in July and August 1995.
Delic was found guilty on one of the four-part indictment. He was indicted for murder, inhuman treatment and rape, by his command responsibility.
He was commander of the main staff of the Bosniak (also known as Bosnian Muslim)-dominated Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1993.
Prosecutors allege he was in charge of a unit of foreign fighters known as the mujahadeen who poured into Bosnia to fight Serb and Croat forces during the 1992-1995 war.
Prosecutors say Delic failed to prevent mujahadeen fighters gunning down prisoners and beheading others.
[From BalkanInsight.com - Bosnian Army General Jailed at The Hague]
What sentence did Mr Delic get for for these crimes? Since Serbian civilian leaders have received up to 40 years for lesser offenses, I am sure one would exct a pretty massive term in prison.
He got three years. That is T H R E E (3). Not Thirty Three (33).
Yet another example of the joke that is the Hague Show trials essentially letting off non-Serbs despite being their being guilty of gross war-crimes.
I completely agree with Milorad Dodik, the Prime Minister of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska when he said:
The Hague Tribunal has showed again “that justice for Serbian victims in the front of the Tribunal is unreachable.”
Talking to Republika Srpska’s official news agency, Dodik said this verdict “ruined the slightest bit of confidence in the Tribunal, which has practically lost its credibility in the front of the Serb people.”
He said that the Tribunal, instead of giving just verdicts and decisions in order to help reconciliation in the region, “obviously is throwing new seeds of hate between people in Bosnia.”
“We all saw the pictures of decapitated people. I call upon the world to ask judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia if three years are enough punishment as Rasim Delic got, for the horrible crimes of the mujahadeen who were subordinate to the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that he was in command of,” asked Dodik.
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