BELGRADE, August 17 /SRNA/ – President of Veritas Documentation and Information Centre, Savo Strbac, has stated anent the sudden death of the former commander of the Serb Army of Krajina, Major General Mile Mrksic, that it would be a high time to make somebody responsible for such high number of deaths of Hague prisoners and convicts.
He has asked how it is possible that prison doctors at a Lisbon prison could not promptly discover such vicious disease earlier and failed to inform the Hague Tribunal which issued a decision to put General Mrksic into the Lisbon prison.
“How is it possible that a man with a diagnosis of asthma and physical exhaustion dies only twenty days after admission to the hospital, and four days after being diagnosed with lung cancer?” asked Strbac.
He asked why the Serbian authorities have announced they will seek a transfer of Mrksic to Serbia for medical treatment only after the media published an appeal of his daughter,” although the authorities were informed on his condition fifteen days before.”
Strbac reminded that Biljana Plavsic was mistreated by Muslim female prisoners in a Swedish prison, and General Radislav Krstic was severely beaten in a British prison. Conditions in an Estonian prison, where former president of Republika Srpska Krajina, Milan Martic, is serving long-term sentence, “are not that far from the conditions in the Stalin’s gulags.”
He pointed out that nine detainees have died in the ICTY’s detention unit in Scheveningen so far, seven out which are Serbs – Djordje Djukic, Slavko Dokmanovic, Milan Kovacevic, Slobodan Milosevic, Momir Talic, Milan Babic and Miroslav Deronjic, and General Mrksic is the first one who died outside of Scheveningen.
This death toll excludes those who were released from the detention unit due to advanced diseases and soon died.
“However, according to its Statute, the ICTY cannot rule the death penalty, but even if it could, hardy such high number of detainees would be sentenced to death as much as they became sick and died in the ICTY’s detention unit, including the death of Mrksic in a Lisbon prison”, concluded Strbac.
The former commander of the Serb Army of Krajina, Major General Mile Mrksic, who was born in Vrginmost, died yesterday in a Lisbon prison in Portugal, where he has been serving a sentence since 2012 based on the decision issued by the ICTY.
Povezani tekstovi
