Die militärischen Handlungsschemata der ... - Dr. Alois Mock

ohnehin darniederliegenden Gebiete werden laufend weniger, die Kluft zwischen
politischer Führung und Militärs (die unter anderem aus den Einstellungs- und
Kriegszieldifferenzen von Karadzic 181 und Mladic 182 hervorgehen) sowie zwischen
den beiden “Hauptstädten” Banja Luka und Pale wird immer größer. Kurz - eine
Krisensituation, ein Machtkampf, ein Moment, der nach “starken Männern” schreit.
Mladic scheint bereit, sich als Vertrauter Milosevics als dieser starke Mann
anzubieten. Dass er es de facto bereits vorher gewesen war, war selbst den
Intelligence Officern der UN nicht mehr unbekannt: “Mladic is in charge in Pale.
Karadzic is becoming a figurehead”, heißt es schon damals. 183
In dieser Situation findet zwischen 15. und 17. April eine Parlamentssitzung der
Republika Srpska statt, an der auch die Führung der Krajina-Serben teilnimmt. Das
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Die unterschiedlichen Persönlichkeiten von Radovan Karadzic und Ratko Mladic werden bereits
allein durch deren gänzlich differenten Lebensläufe recht offen ersichtlich: “When Karadzic moved to
Sarajevo in his mid-teens to pursue a medical education, the milieu of his youth and that of the
multiethnic, multireligious capital city of Bosnia, with its centuries-long history of urban civilized life,
must have stood in stark contrast to each other. Karadzic completed medical school in Sarajevo with a
specialty in psychiatry, and was employed at a local hospital (he later also counselled a local soccer
team). His wife, whom he met in Sarajevo in the apartment house where he lived, is also a
psychiatrist.” Carole Rogel, The Breakup of Yugoslavia and the War in Bosnia. Greenwood Press
Guides to Historic Events of the Twentieth Century (Westport 1998) 88
182
“Ratko (Mladic, RD), who was born during the war and named Ratimir (‘war and peace’), recalls the
murder of his father by Croats as a defining actor in his life. Mladic attended high school near
Belgrade, in Serbia, and then went on to Yugoslavia’s military academy. He completed his studies
there in 1965 and also became a member of the League of Communists the same year. (In November
1995, on the thirtieth anniversary of his graduation from the academy, Mladic donned civilian clothes -
white shirt and bow tie - to attend his class reunion in Belgrade, out of reach of Richard Goldstone,
head of the war crimes tribunal at The Hague, who was then pressing for Mladic to be apprehended for
war crimes prosecution.) As a military officer Mladic had been trained as a Yugoslav. After all, the army
(the JNA) was - and remained - the defender of all of Yugoslavia, disintegrating only after the war
began in 1991. Over the years Mladic held various posts in diverse parts of the country, and, no doubt
because of his loyalty to the state and the army, he was sent to the Command Staff Academy, where
he completed his studies in 1978. When the war began in 1991, Mladic was a deputy commander in
Kosovo, the troublesome autonomous province within Serbia where Albanian-Serbian tensions had
brewed for a decade. The war in Yugoslavia brought Ratko Mladic to military prominence. In June
1991, when fighting began in Croatia, Mladic was transferred to its Krajina area, ...(...) A warrior prince
to the Serb believers, he was and is adored as one of a long line of Serbian heroes stretching back into
the medieval past.” Rogel, The Breakup of Yugoslavia. S. 100 - 101
183 Corwin, Dubious Mandate. S. 129
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