"Immoral and unjust": Miodrag Linta reacts to the verdict against Ratko Mladic

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Last night, President of the Association of Serbs from the Region Miodrag Linta assessed the verdict passed against General Ratko Mladic as immoral and unjust, which confirmed his life in prison sentence, and is, according to Linta, another piece of evidence that the court in The Hague was established exclusively to put the Serb people on trial.

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Serbs feel indignant because the tribunal in The Hague has declared Serb victims less worthy, Linta said in a statement to the media.

"It is a tragic fact that Serb children, women, the elderly and prisoners of war who were killed were not evidence enough for the tribunal to convict Bosniak, Croat and Albanian war criminals," Linta stated.

He also says that the tribunal had the task of confirming the myth of Serbs as the only culprits for wars and war crimes in the former Yugoslavia "with a series of false verdicts."

"It is clear that the Hague Tribunal did not pass verdicts for war crimes based on evidence, but on ethnicity. This is best confirmed by the fact that the Hague Tribunal acquitted Ante Gotovina, Naser Oric and Ramush Haradinaj, and did not even raise indictments against many Croatian, Muslim and Albanian military and political leaders responsible for committing crimes against Serbs," said Linta.

He believes that the second-instance verdict against General Mladic further deepened mistrust between the Serb and Bosniak people because, among other things, it confirmed the "brazen and absurd lie that genocide against Bosniaks took place in Srebrenica."

"The Serb people will never accept the political and false verdict of the court in The Hague, according to which General Mladic is a war criminal," Linta said and asked the Government of Serbia to establish a memorial center for Serb victims, that would serve to promote the truth about the suffering of our people and collect new facts that would represent the basis for reviewing the Hague verdicts according to which Serbs are responsible for almost all war crimes.

(Telegraf.rs)