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Srdja Trifkovic - Selective Justice at The Hague
Srdja Trifkovic
Selective Justice at The Hague
It is not a matter of committing real war crimes; it
is a matter of collective guilt because you do not belong to the right side of
history. In that sense, The Hague is
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Novine Toronto, br. 1468 -
Toronto, 1. april 2016. |
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By:Chronicles | March 28, 2016
Srdja Trifkovic discusses on Radio Sputnik International the sentencing
of Dr. Radovan Karadzic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia. [Audio]
Trifkovic: The verdict had been written well in advance of Karadzic’s
arrest in 2008. All key points in the verdict had been prepared well in
advance based on a previous sentence, against General [Radislav] Krstic,
when the “Srebrenica genocide” was quasi-legally verified. This is the
logical outcome of a politicized tribunal with politicized
proceedings...
Sputnik: What are we going to see now, when it comes to the future of
the Republika Srpska?
Trifkovic: We are going to see the use of this verdict as another
building bloc in the political case for the dismantling of the Dayton
Agreement, signed in the fall of 1995, which recognized the Republika
Srpska as a semi-autonomous entity within Bosnia-Herzegovina. This will
be used, together with some previous verdicts, as justification for a
sustained attempt to delegitimize its existence and to claim that—having
verified the guilt of Karadzic—it is now time to look for another
arrangement for the future of Bosnia-Herzegovina as a more or less
unitarized state—in which, by virtue of their members, the Muslims will
have predominance.
Sputnik: Many people will probably think “well, this is the end of an
era, the end of the story,” but it’s not going to be like that in your
opinion?
Trifkovic: Not at all. The whole show at The Hague Tribunal has the task
of providing legal justification for the decisions made by the Western
powers in the 1990’s. Nobody at The Hague is looking at the
circumstances that led to the civil war in Bosnia, the way in which the
illegal referendum on February 29-March 1, 1992 resulted in the war; or
at the role of the American Ambassador in Belgrade at that time, Warren
Zimmermann, who flew to Sarajevo in March 1992 to dissuade Alija
Izetbegovic, the Muslim leader, from accepting the plan put together by
the European Union under Portugals’ presidency, the plan which could
have prevented the war even before the first shot was fired. This is
selective justice by a tribunal with a clear brief to prove Serbian
guilt as retroactive justification for political decisions made at the
time.
Sputnik: Who are going to be the people who cry out most at this
stage?
Trifkovic: There will be, on the Serbian side, people who will point out
that many elements in Karadzic’s defence were discarded by the Tribunal
even before they could be presented; but on the whole I do not expect
that in the Western press we’ll see any echo of that. It is up to the
Russians in particular to consider the implications of the quasi-legal
proceedings at The Hague as a sword of Damocles that can be used against
anyone who is politically inconvenient to the powers-that-be, such as
the Donbas leaders today or Bashar al-Assad tomorrow.
Sputnik: Do you think that such a tribunal should exist at all?
Trifkovic: No. For as long as we have political agenda, and in
particular the pernicious doctrine of collective command
responsibility—the so-called “joint criminal conspiracy”—anyone
connected with a political structure that is inconvenient to the Western
powers can be criminalized. It is not a matter of committing real war
crimes; it is a matter of collective guilt because you do not belong to
the right side of history. In that sense, The Hague is even more
politicized than the Moscow processes of 1936-1938.
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