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• 1. Delta | July 24th, 2008 at 10:16 pm

  his a very good man he defended his country and was on the run for a couple of years

• 2. Delta | July 24th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

  just on the slaughtering part he slaughtered catholics too but he defended his country till teh last second

• 3. kezballah | July 24th, 2008 at 11:46 pm

  No I can not say he is a good man who defend his country, he commited massacres on innocent women and children so he is a criminal. Hobeika also was a good man who defends his country but when he made Sabra + Chatila he became a criminal. In war innocent people get killed that is a reality but it is not OK to commit massacres and genocides for any cause.

• 4. Kevin | July 25th, 2008 at 4:45 am

  Delta usually when people “defend” their country, they tend to attack the soldiers of it and not massacre the civilians. In war civilians do die, and thats very well known, however he intentionally killed civilians.

  He laid siege on a UN safe zone in order to kill the civilians inside. Maybe before you make such comments you should read up on the facts behind it.

• 5. Fuziyad | July 25th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

  ha ha chou hal Delta, probably the only non serb in the world who defends karadzic…even among serbs many are ashamed of what has been done.

  Hang the bastard now and may the international community keep cleaning the planet from all the powerful barbarians of his specie…

• 6. paul | July 25th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

  the man brought the Orthodox community only shame and harm.

• 7. Mickel | July 25th, 2008 at 7:28 pm

  3a2bel nasrallah

• 8. individual | July 25th, 2008 at 8:06 pm

  Hi

  AFTER THE SOVIET FALL , THE USA IMMEDIATE PLAN was PUT inTO ACTION ..
  IT Was TO DIVIDE ALL THE EX SOVIET BLOCK AND SERBIA HAD A SPECIAL PLAN , IT WAS TO BE DIVIDED INTO 3 OR 4 PART S..

  THEY provoked all the balkan wars by inciting all the different people in order to have independence .
  .
  after that they started an illegal war against serbia .
  why SERBIA ??

  let history judge them ..

  it was illegal in all its aspects ..
  arms and men flew from saudi arabia ,iran , plaestos ..many islamic countries and of course from USA …

  and as volataire says :
  la raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure

  But does not mean they are right………

  You must FIGHT UR ENNEMY with the same means //message that he BETTER UNDERSTAND .,…….

  if the USA , FRANCE GERMANY ,UK and others westren countries are subjected to an impartail Legal process , ia m sure their present or Ex –presidents would end up sentenced to Death for GENOCIDES ..
  you want examples of their genocides ??????

  Democracy is nice when all are the ELITE of the society ..
  the AMERICAN democarcy equall the good to the bad etc

  the SeRBS had to fight for their existence ..
  and to that guy who spoke about sabra and chatila , i ask you :
  what about the genocides .. massacres commited by palestinians in lebanon ?? and of course with the help of the lebanose muslim allies ????
  waht about all the massacres towards christians since the greatest islamic invation????

  regards

• 9. Delta | July 25th, 2008 at 10:38 pm

  Fuziyad

  ur the brilliant guy these guys wanted to create an islamic state in serbia (they managed they started kicking the serbs out of their homes and bringing muslims from all over the balkan and giving them homes in serbia and declaring it as a different state under diiferent name that contains islamist only so for me when they take my land and kill my wife and rape my daughter thats a logic reaction dont u think so .

  and to let you know him and lots of others were hidden by the orthodox church cause they defended their beliefs and country any way i would suggest that u read this book

  written by marco radovic Serbia the heart of Yugoslavia
  its a nice book tells u lot of details and politics .

  thank u for ur sweet comments

  salem il massih ya chabeb

• 10. only in lebanon | July 26th, 2008 at 12:41 am

  it’s amazing!!!!!!!!!!
  to see such a bias in the world.
  such blind minds.
  such darkness
  Unbelievable……..
  A person who is seen as a mass murderer in Europe, US in the whole world…
  there are tons of articles, papers in the press about the genocides, the rapes, cold blood killings and yet someone in Lebanon sees him as
  an opressed man, as a hero………..

• 11. Tarek | July 26th, 2008 at 12:57 pm

  Too bad his capture is meaningless, he’s no longer harmful and hanging him won’t erase the tragedies he had done … Anyways its always good to a criminal lead to justice hopefully all other will follow ..

• 12. Tarek | July 26th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

  Delta you are pathetic, whatever happened nothing justifies the killing of civilians, men, women and children that’s besides house burning and the never ending rapes that occurred. Remember the criminal always have a reason behind his act, he’s not just having some fun, however that doesn’t make him any less a criminal. If you ever justify these acts by anything then you are much less than a human and even worse than a beast, because a beast can’t choose whether to be savage or not but you can.

  Read this story, and just hope that things like this never happen to you or to someone you know:

  SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (CNN) — The outbreak of war seemed like a joke to Jasmina, then just 19 years old. She dreamed of being an economist and says she played with her toddler son and baby daughter as if they were toys.
  Jasmina says she was raped repeatedly during the rule of Radovan Karadzic: “Every day we were raped.”

  Jasmina says she was raped repeatedly during the rule of Radovan Karadzic: “Every day we were raped.”

  But in April 1992, the Serb soldiers took over her city of Bijeljina, in northeast Bosnia near the border with Serbia, and began to kill, torture and terrorize the Muslims there in a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing.

  “Whole families were disappearing during the night. Sometimes we could see their bodies in the gardens, sometimes not even that,” Jasmina said.

  “The men from my family were beaten up the first day. … My mother just disappeared. I never found out what happened.”

  Paramilitaries loyal to Arkan, the Serbian ultranationalist later indicted for crimes against humanity, came to the home Jasmina shared with her husband and extended family to search for valuables and weapons. When they found no guns they started beating her husband, said Jasmina who asked CNN not to use her last name to protect her children.

  “Then they started torturing me. I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I was totally naked and covered in blood, and my sister-in-law was also naked and covered in blood. … I knew I had been raped, and my sister-in-law, too.” In a corner, she saw her mother-in-law, holding her children and crying.

  “That same day we were locked in our house. That was the worst, the worst period of my whole life. That’s when it started.

  “Every day we were raped. Not only in the house — they would also take us to the front line for the soldiers to torture us. Then again in the house, in front of the children,” Jasmina said through a translator, remembering the 10 other women who were brutalized with her.

  “I was in such a bad condition that sometimes I couldn’t even recognize my own children. Even though I was in a very bad physical condition they had no mercy at all. They raped me every day. They took me to the soldiers and back to that house.

  “The only conversation we had was when I was begging them to kill me. That’s when they laughed. Their response was ‘we don’t need you dead.’ ”

  Once at the front line, there were female soldiers who tortured her with a bottle and then slashed at her throat and wrist when it broke. Then the troops cut one of her breasts with a bayonet, said Jasmina, now looking older than her 35 years.

  “It lasted for a year. Every day. … Not all the women survived.”
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  Tens of thousands of women were raped in Bosnia and the other parts of the former Yugoslavia between 1992 and 1994 during the rule of Radovan Karadzic, according to estimates by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. See a timeline of Karadzic’s rule »

  Karadzic was captured this week after years on the run and now will face war crimes charges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The tribunal, set up to try war crimes suspects, established for the first time that rape was a crime against humanity and that rape was “used by members of the Bosnian Serb armed forces as an instrument of terror.”

  For Jasmina, some relief came one day in 1993 when a familiar face, an older Serb who had been a friend of her parents, appeared at the house where she was being kept. Jasmina was told he had bought her as a prostitute but, once in a car with him, the man said he was saving her. “I owe this to your parents,” he said.

  He drove Jasmina and her children to the front lines, gave something to the Serb soldiers there and directed her toward the Bosnian position, saying, “now you are free to go.”

  “I was very weak. I weighed only 45 kilos [99 pounds]. I carried both my children for more than a kilometer to the Bosnian side.”

  Jasmina was safe but scarred. “I felt ashamed. I wanted to die, to disappear somehow. I couldn’t take care of my children; others did that. I just didn’t have the strength or the will.”

  A new low came when doctors began to treat her in one of the refugee centers around the city of Tuzla.

  “They discovered that I was pregnant, six months pregnant, and I didn’t know that. It was too late for any abortion, but I kept saying I didn’t want that child.”

  The gynecologist pleaded with Jasmina to have the child and give it up for adoption, saying it was too dangerous to try anything else. But that was no option for Jasmina. “I didn’t want to hear about that, about giving birth to that child at all.”

  Finally, medics said they could try to abort the child but it was a very risky operation that only one in 100 women would survive. “I begged them to do it,” Jasmina said, pausing to remember an 18-year-old girl who had the same operation on the same day as her and died. Jasmina herself continues to have gynecological health problems stemming from her abuse.

  Months later, her husband arrived at the same refugee center after managing to escape a camp in Serbia. A man he broke out with was killed by a mine.

  “It was such a difficult moment for me. I wasn’t even sure if I wanted him to be dead or alive. I knew that he knew what had happened to me, so it was very, very difficult for me,” Jasmina said.

  “I thought he was going to leave me and take my children because of everything that happened. But he told me he was not going to ask me about anything. And that he also went through terrible things himself, so he didn’t want to discuss anything.” Yet still she says she cannot look her husband in the eye.

  Jasmina said she was unable to talk to the therapists in Tuzla and tried to kill herself in 1995, the first of three suicide attempts.

  “I will never be OK,” she said, adding that she believes God kept her alive for a reason.

  She now lives in a modestly furnished apartment in a tower block in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina. She has been there since 2001 with her husband and children.

  Her dreams now are for her children. She believes it’s crucial she give them some stability but says that’s impossible when she doesn’t know from day to day whether she will be evicted.

  She does not own the apartment, and all property must be returned to rightful owners under the terms of an annex to the U.S.-brokered peace agreement that ended the war.

  The same pact allows for the return of all refugees and displaced people — more than half of the country’s people left their homes during the war, according to the International Organization for Migration — and the re-establishment of the mixed ethnic communities that had lived peacefully for centuries before the war.

  The Office of the High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina, an international body set up to oversee the implementation of the peace agreements, says almost all property rights have been restored. But it is impossible to say how many people have gone home and how many have sold their houses, leaving cities and towns like Bijeljina “ethnically cleansed,” as the warmongers had planned.

  A law enacted in September 2006 does include a section that says homes should be provided for victims of sexual torture during the war. It is not clear who should implement the act, and there is no agency making sure the law is enforced, according to the Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees.

  Meanwhile, authorities say Jasmina should return to her mother-in-law’s rebuilt house in Bijeljina. But she says she will never go back to the place where she lost 39 members of her family and where her abuse began.

  It is a fear shared by other women, according to Alisa Muratcaus, the president of the Association of Concentration Camp Survivors — Canton Sarajevo — a group that offers classes and other support to Jasmina and 1,200 other women across the capital, including 150 victims of mass rape.

  “Many of our members must deal with the realities of return. Not all members are able psychologically to return to regions in which they suffered such extreme human rights abuses,” she said.

  “No one raped women has returned to their pre-war houses, since it is immoral and inhuman to request their return while the war criminals who tortured them are still free and live in these regions.”

  The Sarajevo municipality that owns Jasmina’s apartment says that it does not plan to evict her and that any such directive would come from the Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees.

  Saliha Djuderija, head of the Ministry’s Department of Human Rights, said she was aware of victims who could not face returning to the places where they were tortured and was working on a solution. In the past couple of years, between 15 and 20 women have been given somewhere to live, but lack of funding is restricting the help that can be given. Priority was given to women who testified against their attackers, and Jasmina is not in that group, as her case is still unsolved.

  But if her future is in doubt, Jasmina’s mind is made up. “I’m not going to take my children to Bijeljina. I told my children when I die, don’t take my bones to Bijeljina. I don’t want to hear about Bijeljina. It doesn’t exist for me,” she said, flashing anger for the first time in a lengthy interview.

  Then she shows a picture of her daughter, a beautiful young woman, but even that causes Jasmina pain as she remembers how the soldiers picked her out. “I was beautiful once. It cost me my life.”

• 13. kezballah | July 26th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

  Delta you are right bro there was injustices against Serbs and in the big picture they are not the only ones who did wrong, but no matter what is the reason it is not right to make massacres, it is not self defense when you target civilian people without arms.

• 14. Delta | July 26th, 2008 at 4:00 pm

  ya kezballa these people were giving a time frame to leave serbia and were treated like the other serbs that did not leave kosovo serbs were not the only one that have done massacres but since they were on the looosing side of the war everything was brought tomlight while all what the other sides have done was covered its not right if someone trying to tell me that the other side has done no massacres only the serbs did ill call u a liar so why only bringing the serbs leaders to jail while the others are running free and i call them the others cause every single arab and european muslim joined them in the fighting plus the croatians and the whole eu plus the US (fk CLinton)

• 15. M.N. | July 26th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

  Delta u’re right, the serbs cause in kososvo was right…but their war against croatia was wrong…
  anyway their mistake is that they were allied to russia not US, so the US and Nato and everyone was against them and since this war was “religious”, all the muslims were against them and even hezballah sent soldiers from lebanon to fight with bosnians (during that time a hezbollah leader said it publicly)…
  what a coincidence that all bosnians military officers sued in Lahay were innocents and only the serbs are guilty!!! milosevic, Karadzic, ratko mladic (still not captured) are heroes in serbia.. just for mentioning that 1000000 persons attended milosevic funeral…

  my point here is not defending serbs blindly, no war in the history was clean but justice must be for all or it’s not worse to call it justice…

• 16. none | July 27th, 2008 at 5:50 am

  Delta

  You are very wrong. Just admit being wrong.

• 17. Delta | July 27th, 2008 at 5:54 am

  M.n I totally agree thanks kezballa for seeing the point iwas making and i agree that nothing justify killing pf innocent.

• 18. Delta | July 27th, 2008 at 5:57 am

  MN i just wanted the public to learn that the acts done by serbs were based on a reaction on acts that were previously done by the muslim yugoslavian but for sure kil il libneniyeh byefhamo bil siyese wcopy paste from cnn the most demo news in the world defending acts of the jack ass bill clinton.. wkhidlak 3a rass.

• 19. kezballah | July 27th, 2008 at 5:58 am

  Delta and M.N. I agree with you that it is unfair to let free the Crotia leaders and Bosnian leaders who made massacres and punish only the Serbians. But I am saying that I can not call Karadzic a patriotic person or a good person, he committed massacres so he is a criminal. If the others are not put in jail it doesn’t make Karadzic more innocent. The problem with fighting the moslem fanatics is you become like them and it happen to us in the war but if we want to stay noble and worthy of the cause like we claim then we have to keep sacrificing without doing crimes like the enemy.

• 20. kezballah | July 27th, 2008 at 6:01 am

  Delta no problem bro I understand your point you put light on the issue that Serbians were also treated horribly and that is a fact. Action and reaction make it hard to see who is right and wrong.

• 21. Delta | July 27th, 2008 at 6:03 am

  Tarek i am pathetic ok but ur copying only the stories of the yugoslavian muslims go check the stories of the serbs and compare walla you guys are great at listening to stories from only one side why do u think theres million of damn serbs that demonstrated when their ex president was found dead in his jail ? did u know that or u just bark for barking any way

  if u wanna hear it so u feel good : “Ur Right “

• 22. Arze | July 27th, 2008 at 11:58 am

  Maybe they should judge the Generals supported by the Saudis hariri friends who have been slaughtering the christians in sudan ? more then a million killed ? those are the people who should be judged

  not a man who was defending his country and was in the middle of an entire conspiracy

• 23. kezballah | July 27th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

  7ikeh badri.. You forgot to mention Hakim who is friend of Hariri who is friend of Saudis who support Sudan who massacre Christians and eat from the Apple Tree in the Garden of Eden. So Hakim is responsible for the original sin.

  Malla hableh.

• 24. Eastern European | July 27th, 2008 at 9:07 pm

  individual

  Every nation want to be free-and Serbs built(like Russian)a prison for the nations-called YUgoslavia.
  Serbs (like Russians)are pemeated by chauvinistic and imperialistic ideas neglecting freedom of nations.
  Stop laughing stories about the USA-people in the Eastern and Southern Europe want to be free and independent .

• 25. 9/11 Commission | July 28th, 2008 at 12:27 am

  If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.AbrahamMaslowAbraham Maslow

• 26. Delta | July 28th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

  Kezballa hahahhahahahahahhahahahahahhahahah

• 27. Tarek | July 29th, 2008 at 11:39 am

  Delta, even if this story happened on the other side, that does not justify anything, I’m not defending anyone and you should not two. We can all love our country we can all have a cause but the most important is that to stay within the boundaries of humanities when doing so. If we fail at this we fail at everything.

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