Press Release of the Institute for Research of Genocide Canada {IGK/IGC}
The petition was published on the Canadian Parliament's website on September 10 of this year and will be open for signatures for the next 120 days, or until January 10, 2019.
Shameful
The transfer was approved by the Bosnian justice minister, Josip Grubesa, on October 8. The county court in Zagreb had already accepted Radic’s request and passed a verdict taking over the execution of the Bosnian state court’s judgement.
Her property and legal claim exceeding the awarded amount was rejected, and she was advised to realize it through a civil proceeding.
“The Chamber … found him guilty of committing rape in his capacity as member of police forces,” trial chamber chair Enida Hadziomerovic said.
“Following the assessment of the evidence, the chamber has determined that the prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina has proved, beyond reasonable doubt, that the defendant committed the crime as described in the indictment,” judge Mediha Pasic said.
And that’s exactly what she recalls from the immediate aftermath of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, a woman named Zada, her husband and brother among 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys slaughtered by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica, “shoulder to shoulder with the workmen” building her new home in Sarajevo.
We have lost will-power. The disasters of Afghanistan and Iraq have robbed the west of its omnipotence and self-confidence to stop bad things happening.