he would not be able to participate in a trial
Ratko Mladic’s lawyer has requested a new medical examination for the former Bosnian Serb general, arguing that Mladic is not healthy enough to face charges of genocide at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, he said Monday.Mladic would not be able to participate in a trial because of his ill health, lawyer Milos Saljic said.He wants Mladic New Soccer Jerseys examined by specialists “who can investigate his specific needs,” including a gastroenterologist, cardiologist, psychiatrist and neurologist.Mladic, 69, is wanted in connection with the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. He was captured Thursday after more than 15 years in hiding.His lawyer expects the Serbian court’s response by Tuesday, he said. The court has already ruled Mladic is fit to stand trial.Saljic also plans to file a formal appeal against extradition, he said, adding that it would put it in the mail by noon (6 a.m. ET) Monday.And he is applying for Mladic’s unpaid pension from the years when he was in hiding, he said, saying he was acting on behalf of Mladic’s family.
Chief prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic denied Monday that Mladic was in poor health, saying that he was “lively and joking,” and had asked for Russian classics to read. He said Mladic would be sent to The Hague within days if his extradition appeal fails. Mladic’s son, Darko Liga Espanola Soccer Kit, told an ultranationalist rally Sunday that that his father is sick.”He needs medical treatment that he is not getting,” the younger Mladic said.He described his father as “a freedom fighter,” and said he had “defended his own nation, defended his people, which was his job.”
The younger Mladic called on protesters to keep their demonstration peaceful. “Tomorrow if I’m able to visit my father, I will tell him of this and he will cry again,” he said.Protesters clashed with Serbian police at the demonstration.Nearly 20 people were injured in the violence — seven police and 12 civilians — according to police. They said they made more than 100 arrests.The Serbian Radical Party held its protest Sunday in front of Serbia’s parliament building.Despite calls for calm from the event’s organizers, demonstrators on the fringes of the rally threw rocks at police.Hundreds of officers, some in riot gear and others on horseback, moved in against the crowd.
Some beat and kicked protesters. Police stayed on the streets as the demonstrators scattered.”We are gathered here to peacefully protest the betrayal by (Serbian President) Boris Tadic and his bosses in Brussels,” party leaders told the crowd before the clashes erupted. “We have had enough economic humiliation by our enemies, who are destroying our country … in every way.”At the protest — which was attended by members of Mladic’s family and thousands of others — speakers demanded that Tadic step down and asked that elections be held immediately.Mladic gave himself up without a fight, despite having two handguns, according to Rasim Ljajic, the government minister in charge of searching for fugitive suspected war criminals.
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