It is the political will that has been lacking with respect to others indicted on charges of war crimes, such as Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, political leader of the Bosnian Serbs, who remain at large.Īrrest warrants have been issued for the five, and they will severely circumscribe the defendants' ability to travel. Milosevic, and the four other Yugoslav leaders whose indictment was announced Thursday. So NATO, or some international police force, will have to muster the political will to arrest Supreme Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has no marshals to enforce its rulings. In the world to make it meaningful," said Michael Posner, director of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in New York. "It is legally important, that the head of state responsible for massive human rights violations can be held personally responsible by a criminal court, but it is going to require the political will of the major states His assessment is shared by several international human rights lawyers, who can easily list the political problems of trying to enforce an indictment against someone like Milosevic.
"It's a pure political problem now," Lykourezos added in a telephone interview from Athens. Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb militaryĬommander who was indicted by the war crimes tribunal in 1995. "If he asked me what to do, I'd say just ignore the whole thing, at least the legal aspects of it," said Alexandros Lykourezos, a Greek lawyer who has advised Gen. Of the wars in the former Yugoslavia, Milosevic's fate is still in the hands of politicians and diplomats. But, as has been the case since the outbreak
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