The Office of the High Representative of the International Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina announced that High Representative Christian Schmidt commented on the recently published video of Darij Kordić, a convicted war criminal, which contains heinous messages regarding the crimes for which he was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY), and in which he shows no signs of remorse, reports Anatolia.
“The fact that a convicted person has served a sentence for a war crime committed does not mean that the crime has disappeared. That person is still a war criminal. Remorse, regret and forgiveness are what they should seek. These comments by Dario Kordić could be understood as glorification and glorification of his actions. Glorification of war crimes is punishable by law. I call on the Prosecutor’s Office to open an investigation in this case, and it must also be checked whether there are certain consequences regarding the ICTY verdict in the Kordić case,” said the high representative.
He again emphasized the need and gave support for the entry of judgments of the ICTY and the Residual Mechanism for Criminal Courts into the criminal records of Bosnia and Herzegovina:
“Citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, convicted by international courts, should not be able to obtain certificates of impunity from domestic criminal records. A society that strives to build a better future without crimes and genocide, must accept the facts of its history about which there are court verdicts “.
The statement added that the High Representative is firmly committed to ensuring this.
Hague convict Dario Kordić is the target of harsh criticism after a video was leaked to the public in which he said that he would repeat everything from the war period. In the video, Kordić recounts his conversation with one of the people present at the gathering, saying among other things:
“He asked me in silence if it was worth the prison, the war. I told him I would do it all over again, I wouldn’t exchange a second, every second was worth it.”
The Hague Tribunal sentenced Kordić to 25 years in prison in 2001, finding him guilty of murder, illegal detention, inhumane treatment, attacks on civilians and persecution, wanton destruction of settlements and religious buildings and other crimes against Muslims in 1993-1994. years. Kordić was convicted of crimes in the village of Ahmići, where 116 people died, including 32 women and 11 children. He was released from prison in Graz, Austria, in mid-2014 after serving two-thirds of his sentence.
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