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 Tribunal President wants Serbs Banned from Olympic Games
‘An Olympic ban would be the best way for the
Judge Antonio Cassese told the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung exclusion of Serbian athletes could lead to the handing over of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his army chief Ratko Mladic to the tribunal. "Pressure must be brought to bear on Belgrade and (the Bosnian Serb capital) Pale so that the chief war criminals, Karadzic and Mladic, are handed over before the Bosnian elections," Cassese said in an interview with the daily.
"If they are not handed over before the elections on September 14 then the whole process will be a farce. Even if they do not stand as candidates, they will remain in power through their front men and women," Cassese said. "An Olympic ban would be the best way for the international community to show its disapproval of the way the Bosnian Serb are behaving," Cassese said.
"Economic sanctions only hurt the poorest of the poor," he was quoted as telling the newspaper's Hague correspondent. U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke said in Belgrade on Friday that Karadzic had resigned after 10 hours of "acrimonious" talks with President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Bosnian Serb leaders. Karadzic stepped down as president of the Bosnian Serb Republic and head of the ruling Serb Democratic Party.
Holbrooke, however, failed to get agreement on the arrest of Karadzic and his army commander General Ratko Mladic and their extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague. |
BONN, July 20 (Reuters) - The president of the U.N. criminal tribunal for former Yugoslavia was quoted by a German newspaper on Saturday as saying Serbian athletes should be banned from the Olympics to press Belgrade to hand over indicted war criminals.
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