Karadzic, Mladic Posters Appear in Bosnian Town

New posters in support of top war crimes suspects Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic have appeared in Bosnia’s eastern town of Visegrad.

After the posters backing International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, ICTY, indictee Radovan Karadzic were removed in Zvornik, new ones were put up in the Visegrad area on Wednesday night. The new posters show the photos of Ratko Mladic and Karadzic and slogans: “Our Serbian heroes”,”General, we won’t let them catch you” and “We are all your fellows”.

“In the morning hours a patrol noticed five or six posters, showing Karadzic and Mladic and some slogans, which had been put up on top bulletin boards, normally used for placing obituaries, in Visegrad. After having informed the prosecutor in Sarajevo,we had the communal services company remove the posters,” Vuceta Sipcic, Deputy Chief of the Public Safety Station in Visegrad, said.

Sipcic added that no incidents were registered in Visegrad after the removal ofthe posters.

At the same time, a session of the municipality assembly was stopped as a sign of protest because the Office of the High Representative, OHR, the international community’s top envoy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has not returned documents to the Karadzic family.

“This request does not have anything to do with politics. It is a pure humanitarian issue since there is no more need to keep their documents after his arrest,” said one of the members of the Serbian Democratic Party, Karadzic’s former party, in Visegrad.

Documents were taken away from the Karadzic family at the beginning of this year as one of the measures against people who were suspected of helping Karadzic dodge the law. His daughter Sonja appealed publicly on Wednesday asking the OHR to give the family back their documents in order to allow them to visit Karadzic in Belgrade before he is transferred to The Hague.

The Public Safety Stations in the Bosnian towns of Trebinje, Doboj and Banja Luka claim that no posters have been put up in other towns in Republika Srpska, adding that no incidents were registered.

“Nothing happened in the area covered by the Public Safety Station in Banja Luka. This region is peaceful,” says duty officer there.

Posters backing Radovan Karadzic sprung up in Zvornik on Wednesday. The posters showed the ICTY indictee and slogans: “We are all Karadzic” and”President, we adhere to you”, but they were removed later that day. Read more: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12032/