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Rapidis, Dimitris

Turkey\u2019s geopolitical assertiveness: re-evaluating the balance of power in terms of political and economic leverage in Southeastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Caspian Region

  
 
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The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in 
Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the Middle East and the Balkans. 
IFIMES has prepared an analysis of the current events related to the arrest of the 
former member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1991-1996) Ejup 
Ganić in London (1 March 2010) and further activities of the Republic of Serbia 
aimed at beheading and legal processing of the elites of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 
most relevant and interesting sections from the comprehensive analysis entitled 
“SERBIANS BEHEAD ELITES OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA” are given 
below.   
 
 
SERBIANS BEHEAD ELITES OF BOSNIA AND 
HERZEGOVINA 
 
In the continuation of the research “Serbia and Republika Srpska with joined forces 
against Bosnia and Herzegovina”, published on 8 March 2010 (link: 
http://www.ifimes.org/default.cfm?Jezik=En&Kat=10&ID=521 ), and in connection 
with the Ejup Ganić (the former member of the Presidency of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina) case, which is taking place before British jurisdiction on Serbia’s 
request, the IFIMES International Institute is announcing the newest facts and 
reasons why there are more than 10.000 incriminated Bosnians and Herzegovinians 
in Belgrade and in Sarajevo before the prosecutions of Serbia and Bosnia and 
Herzegovina. 
 
JURČEVIĆ AND CADMAN AGAINST BOSNIANS AND 
HERZEGOVINIANS  
 
Marinko Jurčević, the former Prosecutor General of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and 
Toby M. Cadman who carried out many important tasks for the International 
Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2008 (Prosecution of BiH, 
OHR, The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina) are directly responsible for the 
incrimination of 10.000 patriotically oriented Bosnians and despite negative results 
of the Hague Prosecution concerning the responsibility of the Bosnian leadership, 
they have initiated investigations against them. Jurčević and Cadman wrote “The 
Rules for Reviewing War Crimes” of the Bosnian Prosecution under No. KTA-RZ 
47/04-1 dated 28 December 2004, with which they incriminated Bosnians and 
Herzegovinians who had not been accused by the Hague Prosecution due to the lack 
of substantial proof according to international standards. It is symptomatic that Toby 
M. Cadman is currently the representative of the United Kingdom and Serbia in the 
Ganić case.  
 
  
 
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When the Prosecutor’s Office of the Hague Tribunal transferred 846 cases to the 
Bosnian Prosecution in 2004, for which the Hague Tribunal Prosecution assumed it 
had enough proof according to international standards, it was expected that the 
above 846 so-called “A” cases would be the priority for the Hague Tribunal. 
Estimations of international experts regarding these cases, all 846 of them, were that 
these cases which were separated during the 8-year work following the “Rome Rules 
of the Road” and marked as a priority for criminal processing in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina, would take 30 years at best to be completely resolved. Obviously 
Marinko Jurčević and some representatives of the international community in Bosnia 
and Herzegovina didn’t share the same opinion. The main prosecutor of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina at the time, Marinko Jurčević created, with help and advice of Toby M. 
Cadman, who is currently representing interests of Serbia in the Ganić case in the 
name of British jurisdiction before the court in London, an internal statute of Bosnian 
Prosecution, also known as “Rules on the Examination of War Crime Material”, 
which annihilated 8 years of work of the Hague Tribunal. Under point 1 and point 
6(2) of the Rules Jurčević and Cadman wrote that the examination material includes 
all material (except indictments from the Hague), including material that the Hague 
Prosecution rejected and publicly announced that there were no elements of criminal 
responsibility!? Thus a few thousand peaces of these materials with more than 
10.000 names of Bosnians and Herzegovinians, which were examined by the Hague 
Prosecution from 1996 to 2004 and rejected as no-proof material, once again became 
targets of Marinko Jurčević and Toby M. Cadman. The crimes committed by 
Slobodan Milošević and Franjo Tuđman by killing Bosnians and Herzegovinians, was 
once again committed by the State Prosecutor Marinko Jurčević by incriminating all 
individuals that defended Bosnia and Herzegovina. This legal genocide, committed by 
Jurčević and Cadman (he stood for a high position in the Prosecution of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina one more time and allegedly made an agreement and assured support by 
the highly-positioned domestic Prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina) resulted in 
legal chaos in Bosnia and Herzegovina in which Bosnia and Herzegovina was seeking 
for years the so-called work strategy regarding war crime material.  
 
TADIĆ-DODIK-DUKIĆ TOGETHER AGAINST BOSNIA AND 
HERZEGOVINA 
 
Bosnia and Herzegovina and its citizens have become the hostages not only to their 
State Prosecution. Namely, all the materials with over 10,000 names of Bosnians and 
Herzegovinians that were rejected by the Prosecutor’s Office of the Hague Tribunal, 
were taken to Belgrade by Dodik’s confidant and the President of Detainees of 
Republika Srpska, Branislav Dukić who submitted them (with support of the Serbian 
president Boris Tadić) to the special Prosecutor for War Crimes in Serbia, Vladimir 
Vukčević. This has resulted in the same situation in Serbia and Bosnia and 
Herzegovina with both Prosecutors engaged in processing patriotic Bosnian citizens 
in the same manner. The real nonsense is that both Prosecutors (Serbian and 
Bosnian) seek that Ganić be handed over, but at the same time both prosecutors and 
  
 
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OHR know that the Hague Prosecutor rejected Ganić’s and other’s guilt in the 
Dobrovoljačka case. The main responsibility for this is borne by the Prosecution of 
Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was supposed to halt all the investigations in 2004, 
after it received a negative opinion on the Bosnian leadership, Ganić and others, and 
also from the international community, which is represented by OHR in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina.  
 
Serbian president Boris Tadić confirmed our analysis and arguments in the Ganić 
case with his statement on 14 March 2010 on the anniversary of Serbian Renewal 
Movement, when he said: “For Serbia, it is not essential that Ejup Ganić be handed 
over to us. For Serbia, the essential issue is that there should be a legal process in 
which Ganić, who is a war crime suspect, is an absolutely inevitable offender”.  
 
In addition, Milorad Dodik, the Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, is also actively 
involved in the Ganić case. We would like to remind the public that Milorad Dodik as 
a member of Karadžić’s wartime National Assembly of Republika Srpska publicly 
supported the bombing of Zagreb on assembly sessions, which is officially recorded in 
the transcript of war sessions of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska. This 
transcript contains Dodik’s statement supporting the bombing of Zagreb and seeking 
for the Assembly to find justification for the bombing of the Croatian capital. Milan 
Martić was sentenced to 34-year prison sentence for the bombing of Zagreb by the 
Hague Tribunal. We expect that the Croatian Prosecution will carry out a court trial 
against Milorad Dodik and if he does not respond to the invitation of Croatian 
Prosecution, it should publish an international warrant against him for public 
approval and stimulation of war crime.  
 
 
A LEGAL GENOCIDE OF BOSNIAN-HERZEGOVINIAN PEOPLE 
 
Why did Jurčević and his British collaborators produce such a legal situation? 
The most probable and essential reason why Jurčević-Cadman realized their 
horrendous plan lies in the fact that from 846 cases for which the Hague Tribunal 
approved to be processed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 7%  are connected with ethnic 
Bosniaks and 93% are suspected to be committed by ethnic Serbs and ethnic Croats. 
This ratio obviously upset Jurčević and the international community in Bosnia, who 
probably permitted Jurčević to repeat the process against the patriotically oriented 
Bosnians and Herzegovinians.  
 
In our last analysis (8 March 2010), we published a document of the Hague 
Prosecution in which Ejup Ganić is acquitted of all charges and which was signed by 
Carla Del Ponte. This time we’re publishing a document for the member of the 
Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Stjepan Kljujić, in which the main prosecutor 
Carla Del Ponte considers that according to international standards there is not 
enough convincing evidence against Stjepan Kljujić, the citizen of Bosnia and 
  
 
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Herzegovina who is another target of Serbian and Bosnian prosecutions and the 
British jurisdiction. Every opinion of the Hague Prosecution states (at the end) that 
the document be forwarded to OHR, which confirms the teamwork of OHR and 
Bosnian Prosecution and the Serbian Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević, while Toby M. 
Cadman was the executor of the international politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina.  
 
INTERNATIONAL (BRITISH) POLITICAL GAMES  
 
In our last analysis we predicted the shameful role of the controversial British 
prosecutor Geoffrey Nice in his connection to Bosnia and Herzegovina and his 
activities in Serbia. In the network that was established by Mr. Nice there are also 
some former judges of the Hague Tribunal and some of the former and current 
employees of the Tribunal Prosecutor’s Office. In this analysis we point out another 
British Officer Toby M. Cadman, a colleague and an acquaintance of Mr. Nice, who 
gained enormous amounts of money year after year by working in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina in several international missions, but today he works to the detriment of 
this same country by representing Serbia in the Ganić case before the court in 
London. After this case, Cadman plans once again to work in Bosnia and Herzegovina 
so he can “protect” the interests of the country and its disoriented inhabitants even 
better. It is well known that Mr. Nice strongly aspired to become a prosecutor in 
Bosnian-Herzegovinian Prosecution, when his and Serbian speculation were 
uncovered that the trial to Radovan Karadžić should be carried out in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina. That’s why it is essential that Mr. Cadman and Sir Nice be removed 
from all institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian governmental and non-
governmental organizations and that they be prohibited to work in and around 
Bosnia and Herzegovina. The competent persons at the Hague Tribunal should carry 
out an investigation of the operations of its current and former employees, who not 
only act against the interests of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also directly undermine 
the work and activities of the Hague Tribunal.  
 
The beheading of Bosnian-Herzegovinian elites will be continued also in the following 
period and will be targeted against prominent patriotically oriented Bosnians and 
Herzegovinians. The question which arises is how to prevent this emerging “elitocide” 
in Bosnia and Herzegovina.  
 
It should be stressed that two resolutions of the United Nations Security Council (752 
and 757, 1992) were adopted according to which the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 
(Serbia and Montenegro) were labelled and punished as the aggressors on Bosnia and 
Herzegovina, and that the verdict of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), clearly 
defined that Serbia is responsible for not preventing the genocide in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina and that the offenders of the genocide are the institutions of Republika 
Srpska, so Serbia is bound to hand over general Ratko Mladić to the Hague Tribunal 
(ICTY).  
 
  
 
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In our next analysis we will publish some information on the role of domestic 
politicians of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as of certain individuals (so-called 
experts) and some leaders of the non-governmental sector in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina, who all contributed to the legal genocide of Bosnians and 
Herzegovinians in the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, not only in 
the Ganić case, but also regarding their involvement and connections with individuals 
such as Toby M. Cadman, Geoffrey Nice and other international “well-doers” for the 
interests of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its citizens.  
 
Copy of the ICTY document dated  17 June 2003 
 
  
 
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Ljubljana, 1 April 2010        
               
 
                              International Institute for Middle-East  
                    and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) – Ljubljana 
                                                                          Director:                                                                     
                                                                          Bakhtyar Aljaf  
    


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