Wednesday, January 29, 2014

The Nazi and fascist-founded EU continues to persecute Serbian leaders in their continuing extermination of the Serbs in Kosovo, and the Balkans.
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Update on Oliver Ivanovic - fm an international law mailing list:

According to news repo...rts, Oliver Ivanovic is to face charges for the killing of 2 Kosovo Albanian civilians during the 1999 war and of 10 Kosovo Albanians and other non-Serbs killed during the Feb. 2000 riots, when thousands of Albanian residents were expelled from their homes in north Mitrovica. At the time, Mr. Ivanovic headed the so-called 'Bridge Watchers' vigilantes on the north side of Mitrovica.
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Reuters
27 January 2014

EU arrests moderate Kosovo Serb leader in war crimes probe

By Fatos Bytyci

PRISTINA, Jan 27 (Reuters) -- A moderate Kosovo Serb leader and key interlocutor for NATO and the European Union in the young Balkan country was arrested on Monday in connection with alleged war crimes committed more than a decade ago, the EU said.

Oliver Ivanovic, 60, was questioned and then arrested "as an alleged suspect in an ongoing war crimes investigation, together with allegations of aggravated murder after the conflict," the EU's police and justice mission in Kosovo said in a statement.

A judge was considering a request for his further detention, it added.

Ivanovic, who lives in the ethnically-divided flashpoint town of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo, has been a key point of contact for NATO's peacekeeping force, the EU, United Nations and Western embassies since a 1998-99 war in the former southern Serbian province.

Some 40,000-50,000 ethnic Serbs live in northern Kosovo, rejecting integration with the mainly Albanian state since it declared independence from Serbia in 2008.

Ivanovic came to prominence immediately after the war, as one of the organisers of Serbs in Mitrovica known as the 'Bridgewatchers', who guarded against Albanian infiltration into the northern side of the town.

The Bridgewatchers were frequently involved in inter-ethnic violence in the turbulent postwar period, after NATO bombing drove out Serbian forces accused of killing and expelling Kosovo Albanian civilians during a two-year counter-insurgency war.

The group was officially disbanded, but many of its members branched out into organised crime. Ivanovic entered politics and became known for his moderate stance, advocating dialogue and compromise while still rejecting Kosovo sovereignty.

He ran unsuccessfully for mayor of north Mitrovica in December, in the first municipal polls to be held in the north under Kosovo law, part of a landmark EU-brokered accord between Serbia and Kosovo to integrate the north Kosovo Serbs after years of political and economic limbo.

The EU mission, established in 2008, handles sensitive cases of war crimes and high-level graft.

(Reporting by Fatos Bytyci; Editing by Matt Robinson)
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http://www.nezavisne.com/novosti/ex-yu/Tuzilac-zatrazio-pritvor-za-Ivanovica-228392.html
Nezavisne novine
27.01.2014 19:36

Tužilac zatražio pritvor za Ivanovića

Izvor: Srna

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Tužilac Euleksa je zatražio određivanje pritvora za predsjednika Građanske inicijative "Srbija, demokratija, pravda" Olivera Ivanovića zbog optužbi da je počinio ratni zločin 1999. na Kosovu, rečeno je Srni u Euleksu.

Portparol Euleksa Irina Gudeljević izjavila je da je ispitivanje završeno i da je tužilac izdao nalog za Ivanovićevo zadržavanje.

"Ivanovića je danas saslušao tužilac Euleksa za dva odvojena krivična djela. Prvo krivično djelo odnosi se na ratni zločin počinjen tokom ratnih sukoba 1999, a drugo na teško ubistvo izvršeno poslije ratnog konflikta", pojasnila je Gudeljevićeva.

Ona je navela da će nadležni sudija odlučiti o zahtjevu tužioca.

Ivanovićev advokat Nebojša Vlajić rekao je novinarima da je Ivanoviću stavljeno na teret da je ubio dva Albanca 1999. na području opštine Kosovska Mitrovica i da je njegov branjenik odbacio te optužbe.

Saslušanje Ivanovića pred Euleksovim tužiocem trajalo je više časova.

Prethodno je Građanska inicijativa SDP navela da privođenje Ivanovića ima političku pozadinu i da je on priveden da bi se napravila ravnoteža, jer se hapse i Albanci.

SDP je demantovala da je Ivanović priveden i tvrdi da se on kao građanin javio na poziv tužioca Euleksa.
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The Associated Press
27 January 2014

EU in Kosovo jails Serb politician suspected of war crimes

The European Union police and justice mission in Kosovo says it has arrested a Serb politician suspected of war crimes during the 1998-99 Kosovo war.

The mission, known as EULEX, said Monday that Oliver Ivanovic - a mayoral candidate for the town of Mitrovica - was identified as a suspect during an investigation into war crimes and alleged murders soon after the conflict. No other details were given.

An international prosecutor interviewed Ivanovic and a judge will decide if he will be kept in detention.

Ivanovic narrowly lost to a hardline Serb, Krstimir Pantic, in the race for mayor of the Serb part of Mitrovica. Pantic refused to swear allegiance to Kosovo's ethnic Albanian authorities forcing a new vote to be held on Feb. 23
 

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