Institute for Research on Suffering of the Serbs in XX c.

BIJELJINA, 6 JANUARY /SRNA/ - The entry of the Republika Srpska Army /VRS/ into Srebrenica in the summer of 1995 was a forced operation, given the continued attacks by the so-called Army of BiH from the enclave, which is what the British document finally acknowledges, Miodrag Stojanović, a lawyer, told SRNA.

"This is just another in a series of confirmations what led to Operation Krivaja 95 and the entry of the VRS into Srebrenica," added Stojanović, who is part of the defence team of Head of the VRS Main Staff General Ratko Mladić.

He emphasized that the defence lawyers appearing in the Srebrenica cases constantly point out that the VRS operation was forced, given the continuity of operations the General Staff of the so-called Army of BiH had materialized upon the ordered by General Enver Hadžihasanović to the 28th Division to pressure and attack on the VRS by intensively sabotaging and conducting military operations from the enclave.

BELGRADE, May 8 /SRNA/ - The documentary “The Trial of Ratko Mladić” which will screen at the Belgrade International Documentary Film Festival Beldocs is neither objective nor independent as its authors have claimed; it was rather made in cooperation with the British public broadcaster BBC and it was done with bias, General’s son Darko Mladić told Srna.

According to the festival organiser’s announcement, it is a film by Rob Miller and Henry Singer showcasing the proceedings conducted by the Hague Tribunal against the former chief of the Army of Republika Srpska General Staff, General Ratko Mladić.

Darko Mladić, who has seen the film, says it was done with bias and that it dedicates much more time to the prosecutor and very little to the defence, while the statements are placed out of context and portrayed without any real substance.

BELGRADE, February 9 /SRNA/ - The publishing company Vukotic Media has published a biography of General Ratko Mladic titled “Komandant” /Commander/ by Bojan Dimitrijevic, which sheds light on Mladic’s military career and offers a fresh view of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The book is based on numerous documents, speeches, orders, press releases, minutes of the meetings of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska and in more than 300 pages and nine chapters gives an overview of the career of the soldier and General Mladic, starting with his days as a student of the Military Academy in Belgrade until he end of the war in BiH and his extradition to the Hague war crimes tribunal.

“There aren’t many political assessments, no conclusions. It’s a military biography yet I must say that the biography reveals the setting and the whole atmosphere in which all those things happened unfortunately quite tragically, but in the end, like the General says himself in his main messages, as a result of that struggle we now have Republika Srpska,” director of Vukotic Media Manojlo Manja Vukotic told Srna.

 

BELGRADE, February 1 /SRNA/ - A team of lawyers and the family of Gen. Ratko Mladic appealed today to the Serbian and Republika Srpska governments and presidents to use their diplomatic influence in the world to enable Gen. Ratko Mladic to be treated in Serbia in order to save his life, and warned that people at The Hague started publically speaking that the General was convicted for Srebrenica without proof.

Gen. Mladic’s lawyers and his son Darko Mladic have said at a press conference in Belgrade that Jonas Nielsen, the chief assistant to ICTY Judge Alfons Orie, said publically yesterday at an expert lecture at The Hague that they did not have proof against Mladic for Srebrenica.