(Bad) News from Balkan blog - SRB-HawkEye-

*One more time, the world is witnessing another injustice:

Today, at 09:35 Central European Time, Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač, who committed crimes against Serbian citizens during the Operation "Oluja/Storm", have been liberated of any charges and responsibility for that crime, by the Trial Chamber of the Hague Tribunal, by the judge Theodor Meron. I remind, in the first instance in the 15. of April in 2011., general Ante Gotovina was sentenced to 24 years of prison, while the general Mladen Markač was sentenced to 18 years of prison. 

"Mister Gotovina and mr Markač exposed Obrovac, Gračac, Knin and Bekovac to shelling which wasn't illegal, and have not participated in a criminal enterprise" said Meron. Meron accepted the complaint counts of 1,2,4,5,6,7,8 and 9 of Gotovina and Markač, except of the third.
"I'm declining sentences for persecution, deportation, murder and inhuman treatment, for looting the private and public property, cruel treatment as a violation of the laws of war, so I express a liberating verdict on counts 1,2,4,5,6,7,8 and 9. I'm ordering immediate release of the accused Mr Gotovina and Markač"- said judge Meron.
 
What is really disgraceful is that the judge said that "they found no evidence that there was a joint criminal enterprise with the aim of removing the Serbian civilian population from Krajina by force or threat by force". This means that the 250 000 Serbian civilians voluntarily cleaned themselves from Croatia, while more than 1 960 civilians killed themselves- which is absolutely absurd. 

Serbian officials declared that the Hague Tribunal with this verdict has lost credibility (We, ordinary people, think that the Hague Tribunal never had any credibility). 

Serbian president, Tomislav Nikolić: "Who is to blame for that? Today's decision of the Hague's Tribunal made that Croatia could legitimately celebrate the biggest persecution in the world after World War 2 - The state that doesn't allow families of the missing Serbs to determine where are the bodies of their loved ones. If there were a reason to believed those who claim that the Hague Tribunal is neutral, fair and just over the Serbian Court, the latest decision on the release of the war criminals, denied it! "- said Nikolić. 

**Conclusion:

While I'm writing this, more than the half of Croatia is drunk, celebrating one more "victory". 
Believe me, for about year or two, when Kradžić and Mladić, Serbian generals who defended the people from these two and more of their generals, will be accused for the all point of charges and sentence on 20 to 40 years of prison. Why? Because that's the European justice. 

The lesson of this story is: "Always finish what you've started!"*

 *(meaning that the Serbs should fight with all strength and without mercy- now, all who fought against the enemy are accused for various "non-committed" crimes)

Croatian war criminals: General Ante Gotovina (left) and general Mladen Markač (right);