By Vojin Joksimovich, Ph.D.
Modern Tokyo Times
Arrest of General Mladic
The Serbian president Boris Tadic triumphantly announced that General Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander in the 1992-1995 civil and religious war in Bosnia, was arrested. The arrest took place on May 26 in the village of Lazarevo (to be renamed by residents to Ratkovo or Mladicevo in honor of General Mladic) near the northern Serbian city of Zrenjanin. The same day baroness Katherine Ashton, EU’s foreign policy commissar, was visiting Belgrade. Tadic has been viewed by many, in particular in the Serbian diaspora, as President of the Vichy Serbia. He pompously stated how the arrest of the 69 year-old Bosnian Serb war hero means: reconciliation in the region, end of a difficult era in the Serbian history, lifts stain from the face of Serbia and from Serbs, fulfillment of national and international obligations, and rule of law. Some 12,000 Bosnian Serbs protested in Banja Luka against the arrest. One of the protestors said that Mladic’s arrest was the “greatest disgrace the Serb people had seen in the past 20 years.” The president of Republika Srpska (RS)veterans said: “President Tadic cannot speak about the need to remove a stain from the Serb people, because the Serb people’s face is clean.” There were demonstrations in Belgrade as well organized by the Serbian Radical Party (SRS in Serbian). Dr.Vojislav Seselj, the party leader, sent a letter from detention in The Hague saying that the stain will be removed once president Tadic is arrested and accusing him of being a traitor...more: http://moderntokyotimes.com/2011/06/14/vichy-serbia-sends-war-hero-to-his-death/
