Court hope for parents who believe sons were killed to protect Ratko Mladic
Source: Guardian
Allegations that Serbian soldiers were murdered because they discovered where General Ratko Mladic was hiding from war crimes charges could soon go before the European court of human rights, after the constitutional court in Belgrade found the soldiers' parents had been denied justice.
Janko Jakovljevic said the Belgrade ruling confirmed his belief that his son, Dragan, and another guard at a military barracks in Belgrade, Drazen Milovanovic, had been killed in 2004 because they had inadvertently found out that Mladic was being sheltered by Serbian officers there.
The Bosnian Serb commander was captured in 2011 and is on trial before The Hague war crimes tribunal for genocide and crimes against humanity, for his part in atrocities during the 1992-95 Bosnian conflict.
"Our sons were killed because they either saw Mladic or his security teams," Jakovljevic told the Guardian. He said he and Milovanovic's parents received a letter in January from "someone in Mladic's security" giving details of the killing. They believe the letter is genuine and have handed it over to the prosecutor's office.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/02/serbian-military-soldiers-protect-ratko-mladic
