Germany Withholds Key Documents In Karadzic Trial

Germany Withholds Key Documents In Karadzic Trial?   By Ljubica Vujadinovic The Hague : Netherlands | Jun 30, 2010   Former President of the Republic of Srpska Radovan Karadzic accused Germany of hiding the crucial documents relevant for his trial on war crimes in The Hague. Allegedly, they are to prove that some of the NATO states were conducting illegal weapons trade during the war in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995, while the United Nations' arms embargo was in force. After the German government denied it posses such documents, Karadzic addressed the German embassy in the Netherlands asking that country to make more effort in order to locate them. In his letter to the German embassy, Karadzic also referred to the statement of the former German Telecommunications Minister Christian Schwarz-Schilling who said it was "possible that the documents have compromising information, for example, information that France or Great Britain smuggled weapons into Bosnia and Herzegovina". Karadzic requested eight categories of documents: reports, memorandums, correspondence and reports of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) related to the weapons' deliveries to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH), especially to Srebrenica in 1995. Germany is not the only country which refused Karadzic's requests. Some countries stated they couldn't meet his requirements as the evidence he asked for were military documents of confidential nature. The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for the war crimes during the conflict in Bosnia, including genocide and crimes against humanity against Bosnian Muslims and Croats. Karadzic, who acts as his own lawyer, claims the West was heavily involved in the conflicts in Bosnia and the war was fostered from abroad as the Muslims were getting weapons supplies. http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/6200816-germany-withholds-key-documents-in-karadzic-trial