Karadzic, Mladic Posters Appear in Bosnian Town
24 July 2008 New posters in support of top war crimes suspects Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic have appeared in Bosnia’s eastern town of Visegrad.
After the posters backing International Criminal Tribunal
for former Yugoslavia,
ICTY, indictee Radovan Karadzic were removed in Zvornik, new ones were put up
in the Visegrad area on Wednesday night. The new posters show the photos of
Ratko Mladic and Karadzic and slogans: "Our Serbian heroes",
"General, we won't let them catch you" and "We are all your
fellows".
"In the morning hours a patrol noticed five or six posters, showing
Karadzic and Mladic and some slogans, which had been put up on top bulletin
boards, normally used for placing obituaries, in Visegrad. After having
informed the prosecutor in Sarajevo,
we had the communal services company remove the posters," Vuceta Sipcic,
Deputy Chief of the Public Safety Station in Visegrad, said.
Sipcic added that no incidents were registered in Visegrad after the removal of
the posters.
At the same time, a session of the municipality assembly was stopped as a sign
of protest because the Office of the High Representative, OHR, the
international community’s top envoy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has not
returned documents to the Karadzic family.
"This request does not have anything to do with politics. It is a pure
humanitarian issue since there is no more need to keep their documents after
his arrest," said one of the members of the Serbian Democratic Party,
Karadzic’s former party, in Visegrad.
Documents were taken away from the Karadzic family at the beginning of this
year as one of the measures against people who were suspected of helping
Karadzic dodge the law. His daughter Sonja appealed publicly on Wednesday
asking the OHR to give the family back their documents in order to allow them
to visit Karadzic in Belgrade before he is
transferred to The Hague.
The Public Safety Stations in the Bosnian towns of Trebinje, Doboj and Banja
Luka claim that no posters have been put up in other towns in Republika Srpska,
adding that no incidents were registered.
"Nothing happened in the area covered by the Public Safety Station in Banja Luka. This region
is peaceful," says duty officer there.
Posters backing Radovan Karadzic sprung up in Zvornik on Wednesday. The posters
showed the ICTY indictee and slogans: "We are all Karadzic" and
"President, we adhere to you", but they were removed later that day.
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