Thomas Keenan on Thu, 15 Jun 2000 06:07:45 +0200 (CEST) |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> "The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice isperverted." |
> And then there's the matter of the recent capture of Dragan Nikolic, 43, > reportedly by bounty-hunters (in other words, judicial kidnappers) > operating illegally within the borders of FR Yugoslavia. This episode > is beyond shameful. This poor soul apparently had no idea that there was > a sealed indictment against him--in fact, he had been one of the signers > of the Dayton Accords. Hmmm. So wrote T.V. Weber & Alida Weber on <nettime> last Friday. Apologies for the delay in responding. Dragan Nikolic a signer of the Dayton Peace Agreement? Um, I don't think so. I'll bet that the "poor soul" was already in hiding at that time, although perhaps he was still working for the Bosnian Serb secret police. For the record, as the Los Angeles Times reported on 15 December 1995 from the signing ceremony in Paris: The treaty was signed in the space of three minutes by Presidents Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia. Then [U.S. President Bill] Clinton, French President Jacques Chirac, British Prime Minister John Major, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Russian Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin and Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez -- for the 15-nation European Union -- added their signatures. For those interested in who Dragan Nikolic actually is -- the man in charge of the Susica concentration camp in eastern Bosnia, the first indictee of the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague, recently snatched from his hideout in Serbia and delivered to the ICTY -- a look at his indictment might be helpful. Go to http://www.un.org/icty/ind-e.htm and click on Nikolic (IT-94-2) "Susica Camp." Or, for something with a little more narrative: He has been described as a tall slim figure with a nasal voice, a Serb in his mid-30's named Dragan Nikolic, and he appears to have displayed a singular brutality as the orchestrator of the proceedings at Susica, the Serbian concentration camp just outside this eastern Bosnian town [Vlasenica]. Each night throughout the summer of 1992, witnesses say, Mr. Nikolic would come into the barracks and point to men or read out a list of names. Shortly afterward, people inside the building would hear shooting. The men selected never returned. This comes from the best account of what Dragan Nikolic did, the pair of articles Roger Cohen published in the New York Times in August 1994 on Susica, under the general title "The Secrets of Susica: How Muslims Died in Bosnia." 1 August 1994, A1: Ex-Guard for Serbs Tells Of Grisly 'Cleansing' Camp 2 August 1994, A1: Bosnian Camp Survivors Describe Random Death They are available on line at: http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0005&L=justwatch-l&P=R23761&D =1&H=0&O=D&T=1 I thought <nettime> was a text filter. Isn't anyone filtering? "The poor soul" indeed. It's beyond shameful ... Tom Keenan _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold