THE HAGUE -- Today's verdict against the former Serbian secret police chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic will be historic, the Guardian writes.
The Guardian: Today's verdict will prove Belgrade’s orchestration of ethnic cleansing
THE HAGUE -- Today's verdict against the former Serbian secret police chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic will be historic, the Guardian writes.
Source: Tanjug
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Stanisic and Simatovic are charged with war crimes in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1991 and 1995.
The significance of today's verdict is not just due to the length of the whole process, but also because of what it will say about Belgrade’s covert role in the 1992-95 Bosnian conflict and "about the legal accountability of covert state sponsors of paramilitary groups", the Guardian claims.
Jovica Stanišiæ, the former head of the state security service (DB) and his deputy, Franko “Frenki” Simatoviæ, were first indicted in 2003.
David Scheffer, former US envoy on war crimes issues and vice-president of the American Society of International Law, says that “this exhaustively litigated case against two high-level Serbian officials is the litmus test to prove Belgrade’s orchestration of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Croatia during the early 1990s”.
"The link to Belgrade’s leadership would be damning”, Scheffer concluded.
The Guardian further claims that Jovica Stanisic, the former head of the state security service (DB) and his deputy, Franko Simatovic were once two of the most powerful men in Serbia.
Stanišiæ was also reported to be a CIA informant and that "this secret service agency took the unusual step of submitting a classified document to the court describing his help".
International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals will pass the second first instance verdict on Stanisic and Simatovic in the afternoon, after the retrial, because the first one, by which they were acquitted of all charges, was revoked and a retrial was ordered in 2015 when an appeals chamber ruled that the trial judges had misinterpreted the legal threshold for proving complicity.
These men were found not guilty in the first trial, but now a retrial had to be instigated because the trial judges had “misinterpreted” the legal threshold for proving complicity. Really all judges misinterpreted this? What a load of BS.
Scheffer is a typical dumb-arse American who thinks just because the average US citizen is dumbed-down then the rest of the world is the same. Where was Mr Scheffer when the Croats ethnically cleansed 250,000 Serbs from Croatia? Oh was that done democratically, eh? Where was Mr Scheffer when his US of halfwits invaded Iraq in contravention of International Law??????
The problem with the American jackasses is they think this façade of a retrial will stand the test of time. It does not hold now let alone 6 months from now.
The retrial was ORDERED by the US just like the US ORDERED the ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Croatia, the murder of Oliver Ivanovic and just now the US ORDERED the Albos to stop Serbs from celebrating Vidovdan in Kosovo recently. The US of Idiots give Serbia 10 fully equipped ambulances thinking this will show the Serbs they love them LOL.
You see the US of Piss and Wind is beside itself because everything it has done so far has FAILED.
The world knows why this is being done but only the US thinks this new decision is historic.
Scheffer is the el president of American Society of International Law. That’s the same international law the US pisses on whenever it likes. Americans, they just get stupider and stupider.
(sj, 1 July 2021 09:11)
If the Guardian thinks this is historic then they are even stupider than one could imagine. These men were found not guilty, but now a retrial had to be instigated because the trial judges had misinterpreted the legal threshold for proving complicity.
All the judges misinterpreted this????? What a load of bullshit.
David Scheffer is a typical dumb-arse American who thinks just because the average US citizen is dumbed-down then the rest of the world is the same. Where was Mr Scheffer when the Croats ethnically cleansed 250,000 Serbs from Croatia? Oh was that done democratically, eh?
The problem with the American jackasses is they think this façade of a retrial will stand the test of time. It does not hold now let alone 6 months from now.
The retrial was ORDERED by the US just like the US ORDERED the murder of Oliver Ivanovic and just how the US ORDERED the Albos to stop Serbs from celebrating Vidovdan in Kosovo recently.
You see the US of Piss and Wind is beside itself because everything it has done so far has FAILED.
The world (excluding the west naturally, or some do but dare not speak for fear of retribution) knows why this is being done only the US thinks this new decision is historic.
Scheffer is the of American Society of International Law, ha,ha,ha. That’s the same international law the US pisses on whenever it likes. Americans, they just get stupider and stupider.
(sj, 30 June 2021 15:17)
If the Guardian thinks this is historic then they are even stupider than one could imagine. These men were found not guilty, but now a retrial had to be instigated because the trial judges had misinterpreted the legal threshold for proving complicity.
All the judges misinterpreted this????? What a load of bullshit.
David Scheffer is a typical dumb-arse American who thinks just because the average US citizen is dumbed-down then the rest of the world is the same. Where was Mr Scheffer when the Croats ethnically cleansed 250,000 Serbs from Croatia? Oh was that done democratically, eh?
The problem with the American jackasses is they think this façade of a retrial will stand the test of time. It does not hold now let alone 6 months from now.
The retrial was ORDERED by the US just like the US ORDERED the murder of Oliver Ivanovic and just how the US ORDERED the Albos to stop Serbs from celebrating Vidovdan in Kosovo recently.
You see the US of Piss and Wind is beside itself because everything it has done so far has FAILED.
The world (excluding the west naturally, or some do but dare not speak for fear of retribution) knows why this is being done only the US thinks this new decision is historic.
Scheffer is the of American Society of International Law, ha,ha,ha. That’s the same international law the US pisses on whenever it likes. Americans, they just get stupider and stupider.
(sj, 30 June 2021 15:17)
These men were found not guilty in the first trial, but now a retrial had to be instigated because the trial judges had “misinterpreted” the legal threshold for proving complicity. Really all judges misinterpreted this? What a load of BS.
Scheffer is a typical dumb-arse American who thinks just because the average US citizen is dumbed-down then the rest of the world is the same. Where was Mr Scheffer when the Croats ethnically cleansed 250,000 Serbs from Croatia? Oh was that done democratically, eh? Where was Mr Scheffer when his US of halfwits invaded Iraq in contravention of International Law??????
The problem with the American jackasses is they think this façade of a retrial will stand the test of time. It does not hold now let alone 6 months from now.
The retrial was ORDERED by the US just like the US ORDERED the ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Croatia, the murder of Oliver Ivanovic and just now the US ORDERED the Albos to stop Serbs from celebrating Vidovdan in Kosovo recently. The US of Idiots give Serbia 10 fully equipped ambulances thinking this will show the Serbs they love them LOL.
You see the US of Piss and Wind is beside itself because everything it has done so far has FAILED.
The world knows why this is being done but only the US thinks this new decision is historic.
Scheffer is the el president of American Society of International Law. That’s the same international law the US pisses on whenever it likes. Americans, they just get stupider and stupider.
(sj, 1 July 2021 09:11)
These men were found not guilty in the first trial, but now a retrial had to be instigated because the trial judges had “misinterpreted” the legal threshold for proving complicity. Really all judges misinterpreted this? What a load of BS.
Scheffer is a typical dumb-arse American who thinks just because the average US citizen is dumbed-down then the rest of the world is the same. Where was Mr Scheffer when the Croats ethnically cleansed 250,000 Serbs from Croatia? Oh was that done democratically, eh? Where was Mr Scheffer when his US of halfwits invaded Iraq in contravention of International Law??????
The problem with the American jackasses is they think this façade of a retrial will stand the test of time. It does not hold now let alone 6 months from now.
The retrial was ORDERED by the US just like the US ORDERED the ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Croatia, the murder of Oliver Ivanovic and just now the US ORDERED the Albos to stop Serbs from celebrating Vidovdan in Kosovo recently. The US of Idiots give Serbia 10 fully equipped ambulances thinking this will show the Serbs they love them LOL.
You see the US of Piss and Wind is beside itself because everything it has done so far has FAILED.
The world knows why this is being done but only the US thinks this new decision is historic.
Scheffer is the el president of American Society of International Law. That’s the same international law the US pisses on whenever it likes. Americans, they just get stupider and stupider.
(sj, 1 July 2021 09:11)
If the Guardian thinks this is historic then they are even stupider than one could imagine. These men were found not guilty, but now a retrial had to be instigated because the trial judges had misinterpreted the legal threshold for proving complicity.
All the judges misinterpreted this????? What a load of bullshit.
David Scheffer is a typical dumb-arse American who thinks just because the average US citizen is dumbed-down then the rest of the world is the same. Where was Mr Scheffer when the Croats ethnically cleansed 250,000 Serbs from Croatia? Oh was that done democratically, eh?
The problem with the American jackasses is they think this façade of a retrial will stand the test of time. It does not hold now let alone 6 months from now.
The retrial was ORDERED by the US just like the US ORDERED the murder of Oliver Ivanovic and just how the US ORDERED the Albos to stop Serbs from celebrating Vidovdan in Kosovo recently.
You see the US of Piss and Wind is beside itself because everything it has done so far has FAILED.
The world (excluding the west naturally, or some do but dare not speak for fear of retribution) knows why this is being done only the US thinks this new decision is historic.
Scheffer is the of American Society of International Law, ha,ha,ha. That’s the same international law the US pisses on whenever it likes. Americans, they just get stupider and stupider.
(sj, 30 June 2021 15:17)
