Serge Brammertz: Mladic Arrest Not Too Late (video)

balkan insight
02 Jun 2011 / 18:37
Chief Hague tribunal prosecutor tells Balkan Insight the arrest of Mladic did not come too late, that the Mladic and Karadzic case are not likely to be merged and he had no tip-off that the arrest would happen when it did.

Anisa Suceska

The Hague
Has Mladic’s arrest come too late?

The arrest is taking place very late and we were hoping for this arrest for the last 16 years, so yes I would have preferred this arrest to have happened much earlier. But it’s not too late because he is finally in The Hague, and we hope his trial can start as soon as possible under the best possible conditions. The [International Criminal] Tribunal [for Former Yugoslavia]  is still in existence and as you know the UN Security council decided last year to put a Residual Mechanism in place and one of the rules of this mechanism is that all arrests made prior to July 2012 stay with the Tribunal. That means the trial will definitely take place before the ICTY under its current form....more...
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