[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13607980[/url]
[quote=BBC News][b]Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic has been flown to the Netherlands, where he is to be tried at a UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.[/b]
He was put on a plane in Belgrade shortly after a Serbian court rejected an appeal against his extradition.
Gen Mladic faces genocide charges over atrocities committed during the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s.
His lawyer had argued he was too ill to be tried. But Serbian doctors said he was fit enough to be extradited.
The 69-year-old was seized last Thursday in Lazarevo village, north of Belgrade, having been on the run for 16 years.
On Tuesday, a Belgrade court ruled that Gen Mladic was fit enough to be handed over to the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.
Serbian Justice Minister Snezana Malovic later announced she had signed the extradition papers and that Gen Mladic was already on the plane.
The BBC's Mark Lowen in Belgrade says Gen Mladic's departure was even faster than most had predicted.
It seems the Serbian government acted to preempt any protests by his supporters by not making any announcement about the extradition until he was gone, our correspondent adds.
[b]Candle and flowers[/b]
The Serbian government jet touched down at Rotterdam The Hague Airport at about 1945 local time (1745 GMT). It taxied from the runway into a hangar, whose doors were quickly closed.
Gen Mladic was then taken to the detention facility of the ICTY.
He is now due to receive a full medical examination, before appearing in court in the coming days.
He is accused of crimes against humanity, including the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of at least 7,500 Muslim men and boys.
Earlier on Tuesday, Gen Mladic had been allowed to visit the grave of his daughter Ana, albeit under heavy security.
Ana Mladic committed suicide in 1994 aged 23, reportedly shooting herself with her father's favourite pistol after she read about his alleged crimes in a magazine.
During the 20-minute visit to her grave, Gen Mladic lit a candle and left a small white bouquet of flowers with a red rose in the middle, said Serbia's deputy war crimes prosecutor, Bruno Vekaric.
Gen Mladic's arrest is considered crucial to Serbia's bid to join the European Union.
His son Darko Mladic said his father had told him he was not responsible for the killings in Srebrenica, committed after Bosnian Serb troops overran the town in July 1995.
Following the arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in 2008, Gen Mladic became the most prominent Bosnian war crimes suspect still at large.
He was indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague in 1995 for genocide over Srebrenica - the worst single atrocity in Europe since World War II - and other alleged crimes.
Having lived freely in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, he disappeared after the arrest of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in 2001.
Gen Mladic is still considered a war hero by many Serbs. On Tuesday thousands of people rallied in his support in Banja Luka, the capital of the Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska.
"General Ratko Mladic is our brave son who led Republika Srpska's army and us soldiers to defend it," Bosnian Serb veteran Branislav Predojevic told AFP news agency.
On Sunday, thousands of people rallied in Belgrade against his arrest, condemning the pro-Western government of President Boris Tadic for arresting him.[/quote]
[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/53080000/jpg/_53080196_hague_cell624.jpg[/img]
Before anyone kicks off about the cell having a TV and computer, this is his holding cell for the trial. Once convicted he will be put in a regular prison.
Also notice the TV is CRT and the PC is running Windows XP. I thought they didn't do torture???
[QUOTE=smurfy;30167864]Also notice the TV is CRT and the PC is running Windows XP. I thought they didn't do torture???[/QUOTE]
Laugh it up asshole, I can't afford 7 yet :frown:
[editline]1st June 2011[/editline]
Also, good news
It looks like he has the computer on the desk but no chair. That's inhumane.
No computer chair and a CRT? Where is the International Human Rights group? This is a gross abuse of human rights.
That is an extremely old photograph, taken from Wikipedia. Although I doubt it has changed much.
As for the extradition, this is a good thing. Hopefully it will bring closure for a lot of people.
Although apparently he is going to deny the massacre he is accused of ordering even took place
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;30168927][img]http://media.gdgt.com/img/product/15/bpw/windows-vista-oa6-460.jpg[/img]
Fucker deserves worse.[/QUOTE]
If there was a way to rate funny and agree at the same time I would.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;30168927][img]http://media.gdgt.com/img/product/15/bpw/windows-vista-oa6-460.jpg[/img]
Fucker deserves worse.[/QUOTE]
Give him Windows ME.
Wait, It's the norm not to have a CRT TV anymore?
My house is in the pasttttt
That cell is the equivalent to a torture chamber in Norway.
[QUOTE=Jsm;30169152]Give him Windows ME.[/QUOTE]
No, we need [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZegWedG-jk4]this[/url].
Considering what the average Serb has, the CRT TV and Windows XP are a-okay to Ratko. If he didn't derp so much in these ten/twenty years he forgot how to use them, that is.
All the serbs in my city make my veins boil with rage.
Them posting on facebook "HURR THE HERO HAS BEEN UNJUSTLY JAILED"
with pictures of that fucking war criminal.
Committing the 2nd largest genocide since WW2 isn't a heroic act you brain dead fucks.
We had a huge influx of serbs to our city because their dictator and country got bombed so they fled here, but yet once they are here they have this huge ego like they are gods, they refuse to integrate, and they taught their children bullshit construed history to make them seem like some sort of heroes so now their kids think apparently they "won" the Yugoslav war (Why would you flee to Canada if you won?), they have a huge sense of nationalism which isn't a bad thing but they are over the top blindingly nationalist about Serbia yet they live in Canada, and that war criminals are saviors of Serbia.
Of course I know this isn't all serbs but damn it seems like a lot of them think this way.
[QUOTE=Aman VII;30178312]We had a huge influx of serbs to our city because their dictator and country got bombed so they fled here, but yet once they are here they have this huge ego like they are gods, they refuse to integrate, and they taught their children bullshit construed history to make them seem like some sort of heroes so now their kids think apparently they "won" the Yugoslav war ([b]Why would you flee to Canada if you won?[/b]) and that war criminals are saviors of Serbia.[/QUOTE]
Maybe their cousins invited them bowling?
MLADIC, MY COUSIN! YOU WANNA GO BOWLING?
Hopefully, this monster will be executed. Only then will justice be Serb'd.
[QUOTE=smurfy;30167864]
Before anyone kicks off about the cell having a TV and computer, this is his holding cell for the trial. Once convicted he will be put in a regular prison.
Also notice the TV is CRT and the PC is running Windows XP. I thought they didn't do torture???[/QUOTE]
I currently work as a prison guard in the netherlands, and what you see right there is standard issue for cells over here, minus the computer.
Only thing that's missing there is the minifridge and a microwave. (and maybe a radio)
It's almost certain that there were people in the Serbian government helping to hide him. The only question is who and how high up they are.
That Serbians still support him, seeing him as a hero, absolutely sickens me. It also strikes me as rather stupid; he was a shit general. Y'know, I could understand people seeing a successful general as a hero e.g. Rommel, Rokossovskyy, those kinds of blokes; but a useless but murderous cuntflap like him?
[QUOTE=Fatman55;30175181]No, we need [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZegWedG-jk4]this[/url].[/QUOTE]
Oh god no, he might be an evil man accused of committing genocide but he does not deserve that.
[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;30179843]Hopefully, this monster will be executed. Only then will justice be Serb'd.[/QUOTE]
Terrible pun, and on a serious note the ICTY does not have the death penalty as an option.
I wish the BBC would spell it like it is (Mladi[B]ć[/B])
It's a bit weird seeing names changed to be more english
Kinda happy they got him but It's clogging up my TV with it, I just want to watch TV without him being on it 24/7. On other hand my mom is gonna be happy for a month or so.
[QUOTE=wewt!;30182475]I wish the BBC would spell it like it is (Mladi[B]ć[/B])
It's a bit weird seeing names changed to be more english[/QUOTE]
It would just confuse some people. Besides all the people that use ć already know/use c as it.
Even my facebook uses a c on the end
[QUOTE=wewt!;30182475]I wish the BBC would spell it like it is (Mladi[B]ć[/B])
It's a bit weird seeing names changed to be more english[/QUOTE]
I [I]think[/I] the BBC's policy to do that with names.
[QUOTE=Aman VII;30178312]All the serbs in my city make my veins boil with rage.
Them posting on facebook "HURR THE HERO HAS BEEN UNJUSTLY JAILED"
with pictures of that fucking war criminal.
Committing the 2nd largest genocide since WW2 isn't a heroic act you brain dead fucks.
We had a huge influx of serbs to our city because their dictator and country got bombed so they fled here, but yet once they are here they have this huge ego like they are gods, they refuse to integrate, and they taught their children bullshit construed history to make them seem like some sort of heroes so now their kids think apparently they "won" the Yugoslav war (Why would you flee to Canada if you won?), they have a huge sense of nationalism which isn't a bad thing but they are over the top blindingly nationalist about Serbia yet they live in Canada, and that war criminals are saviors of Serbia.
Of course I know this isn't all serbs but damn it seems like a lot of them think this way.[/QUOTE]
I'm not one to generalize, but a fucking large portion of Serbs are racist, nationalist, over patriotic bigots.
[QUOTE=marlkarx;30183110]I'm not one to generalize, but a fucking large portion of Serbs are racist, nationalist, over patriotic bigots.[/QUOTE]
It's not all in Serbia.
I saw on TV the other day there was a woman from Croatia (She was living there but I don't know if she was from Serbia or Croatia. It's hard to tell because she was sounding Croatian but she might of picked it up after a few years of living there)
But she said this "My son died fighting for him in his hands and I'm happy he did. I love him"
I was speechless for like 10 minutes after seeing that.
[QUOTE=marlkarx;30183110]I'm not one to generalize, but a fucking large portion of Serbs are racist, nationalist, over patriotic bigots.[/QUOTE]
Wow you've must've met [I]many
[/I][QUOTE=BlackMac;30183223]It's not all in Serbia.
I saw on TV the other day there was a woman from Croatia (She was living there but I don't know if she was from Serbia or Croatia. It's hard to tell because she was sounding Croatian but she might of picked it up after a few years of living there)
But she said this "My son died fighting for him in his hands and I'm happy he did. I love him"
I was speechless for like 10 minutes after seeing that.[/QUOTE]
It depends on the region, I know a bunch of people from Split that my group lived with for a month in Germany, and we had an amazing time together despite the border controversy.
[QUOTE=BlackMac;30182491]Kinda happy they got him but It's clogging up my TV with it, I just want to watch TV without him being on it 24/7. On other hand my mom is gonna be happy for a month or so.[/QUOTE]My dad's pretty much like that now, probably because Kosovo was his second least favourite posting when he was in the army.
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[QUOTE=marlkarx;30183110]I'm not one to generalize, but a fucking large portion of Serbs are racist, nationalist, over patriotic bigots.[/QUOTE]Out of a country of 7 million, only just 1000 or so people turned out to support him. As rallies to support well-known people goes, that's pretty pathetic, and hints to there being far less of the kinds of people you described in Serbia.
[QUOTE=wewt!;30183429]
It depends on the region, I know a bunch of people from Split that my group lived with for a month in Germany, and we had an amazing time together despite the border controversy.[/QUOTE]
Ehh Croatians are awesome, I have some friends that I know on steam and in real life that are from Croatia.
I even have some family living there. I've been in Croatia for like 15+ times.
I have nothing against them, it just makes me sad for someone to say that stuff
Ratko Mladic.
You'd have to add a "von Carnage" to make that name sound any more villainous.
[QUOTE=BlackMac;30183567]Ehh Croatians are awesome, I have some friends that I know on steam and in real life that are from Croatia.
I even have some family living there. I've been in Croatia for like 15+ times.
I have nothing against them, it just makes me sad for someone to say that stuff[/QUOTE]
Yeah we go there almost every summer
[QUOTE=wewt!;30183595]Yeah we go there almost every summer[/QUOTE]
I've been in your country many times too
I love Podčetrtek.
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