Macedonia Won’t Process Hague War Crimes Cases

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  • Risto the Great
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2008
    • 15658

    Macedonia Won’t Process Hague War Crimes Cases



    Lawmakers voted not to prosecute four war crimes involving the National Liberation Army in court after a request by the Albanian Democratic Union for Integration’s (DUI) for an interpretation of the Law on Amnesty.

    The law ensued from the Ohrid Framework Agreement, which ended the 2001 conflict between Macedonian government forces and the Albanians’ National Liberation Army (NLA).

    “The parliament is the highest institution with the responsibility to interpret laws. Voting to interpret the Law on Amnesty means the four cases will end and no other institution is competent to judge them,” analyst Jovan Donev told SETimes.


    Macedonia
    The Hague tribunal kept the four cases for six years without acting on them. It decided not to process them in 2006 and returned them, asking Macedonia to do it instead.

    Two cases charge members of the NLA — whose leadership transformed into the DUI — with kidnapping, torture and murder of Macedonians in the Tetovo area in 2001.

    Another case charges the NLA with shutting off the city of Kumanovo’s water supply, threatening the lives and wellbeing of over 100,000 people.

    The fourth charges the NLA leadership with chain-of-command responsibility for various instances of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

    Government officials say the move is an attempt at national reconciliation between Macedonians and Albanians.

    “It closes the big wounds which have previously prevented Macedonia from entering a course of political understanding. It will contribute to … political and economic stability in the country,” DUI parliamentarian Arben Ljanbunishta said.

    Many Macedonians, however, are furious at the failure to ensure justice.

    “The Framework Agreement was imposed on Macedonia and consequently there is no closure for the families of the missing Macedonians, not to mention how many of us are unemployed because of existing quotas,” a 45-year-old veteran of the 2001 conflict, who asked to be identified only by the initials S.T., told SETimes.

    Parliament’s decision was a “political calculation before the autumn census, in which the validity of the Framework Agreement may legitimately be put under question,” he said.

    Others, like Bitola resident Petre Lozanovski, 60, disagree. “I am convinced the parliament has valid arguments for its position. Whether the solution is sound we must wait and see,” Lozanovski told SETimes.

    “The interpretation is a result of a political agreement, a political declaration, rather than being a sound legal solution. The goal here is to overcome possible future ethnic tensions in Macedonia,” former Internal Affairs Minister and governing coalition member Pavle Trajanov told SETimes.

    In an attempt to calm the situation, President Gjorge Ivanov met with distraught families of the Macedonians still missing from the conflict and asked that all political factions refrain from exploiting their misfortune.
    This merely confirms the Macedonian government is being held hostage to Albanian demands still. The Hague should take the higher ground and demand these cases be heard if Macedonia is too gutless to do so.

    “The parliament is the highest institution with the responsibility to interpret laws. Voting to interpret the Law on Amnesty means the four cases will end and no other institution is competent to judge them,” analyst Jovan Donev told SETimes.
    Ummm, no it isn't. The country's judicial system is.

    Really disgusting.
    Risto the Great
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  • Pelister
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2008
    • 2742

    #2
    Well spotted RTG.

    This is shameful, but it exemplifies the culture and the attitude of the Gruevski government over the years. It is a fact that the Framework Agreement is unconstitutional, and it is a fact that the Gruevski government has continued its implementation. A strong judiciary is a threat to the Gruevski government, which is why the Judiciary has no authority and no power, in the same way that the Macedonians grievances and concerns have no voice. The fact is that Gruevski and the parliament are a law unto themselves. These maniacs have control of the country, and Gruevski is the one meddling with our identity - the fker continues to act as though he has a mandate to be negotiating our identity with our enemies.

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    • George S.
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2009
      • 10116

      #3
      how about the fact that gruevski is also playing in the hands of the albanians who are contemplating hooking up with kosovo & cannot guarantee macedonia's safety.
      "Ido not want an uprising of people that would leave me at the first failure, I want revolution with citizens able to bear all the temptations to a prolonged struggle, what, because of the fierce political conditions, will be our guide or cattle to the slaughterhouse"
      GOTSE DELCEV

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      • Zarni
        Banned
        • May 2011
        • 672

        #4
        One word discipable RTA is correct let the Hague decide the familys need to fight for International Intervention

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        • Pelister
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2008
          • 2742

          #5
          The Gruevski government has been subverting the Macedonian identity and State and the insitutions of the State from the very beginning. The show of confidence in the strength of the State, should have been demonstrated a decade ago - the Framework Agreement should have gone to the High Court of Macedonia for the high court judges to deliberate and decide whether it is unconstitutional. The fact is that it still can - it will take a gutsy lawyer to do it; the morons in the government don't realise that the judiciary could be used to give moral and legal backing to the legitimacy and soveriegnty of the Macedonian State and at the same time, declare the war unlawful and illegal, and the Terms of the Treaty, unconstitutional. I think that its a dictatorship at the moment, operating behind the facade of 'democracy' except that Gruevski has been subverting the authority of our institutions, subverting our identity every step of the way. I would go so far as to say that he is the only one meddling with it. If that isn't enough, the Macedonian people are being decieved at every turn about everything, about the U.N, about who created the negotiations, about what they entail, about the Interim Accord and the Framework Agreement.
          Last edited by Pelister; 08-08-2011, 08:55 PM.

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          • George S.
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2009
            • 10116

            #6
            With the albanians the rom govt it seems to be surrendering it's sovereignity giving in to their crazy demands.It seems to be compromise & capitulation to terrorists at any cost ie surrendering
            their soveregnity.
            Last edited by George S.; 08-08-2011, 08:57 PM. Reason: ed
            "Ido not want an uprising of people that would leave me at the first failure, I want revolution with citizens able to bear all the temptations to a prolonged struggle, what, because of the fierce political conditions, will be our guide or cattle to the slaughterhouse"
            GOTSE DELCEV

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            • Zarni
              Banned
              • May 2011
              • 672

              #7
              2 days agao marked the Murder of the Macedonian Soldiers and Defenders from Prilep by Shiptari Terrorists, the newly crowned Minister of Defence and Cruveski (spelling don’t care) pardoned Govt, pay check murderer and former ANA terrorist was not present at the ceremony

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              • George S.
                Senior Member
                • Aug 2009
                • 10116

                #8
                Hey zarni i wonder what the paycheck is for a defence minister & what are the perks of the job??Also does anyone think this clown is doing his job as defence minister???So far.
                "Ido not want an uprising of people that would leave me at the first failure, I want revolution with citizens able to bear all the temptations to a prolonged struggle, what, because of the fierce political conditions, will be our guide or cattle to the slaughterhouse"
                GOTSE DELCEV

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