Ratko Mladic: Tragic Hero (Paperback)

by Milo Yelesiyevich (Author)
Key Phrases: Republika Srpska, Bosnian Serb, General Mladic (more...)

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Read this and make up your mind whether Ratko Mladic is guilty until proven innocent ... or innocent until proven guilty. -- David Binder began covering the Balkans for the New York Times in 1963

Read this and make up your mind whether Ratko Mladic is guilty until proven innocent ... or innocent until proven guilty. --David Binder began covering the Balkans for the New York Times in 1963

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"Ratko Mladic: Tragic Hero" is the first book-length study to appear in English about the controversial Serbian general. It departs radically from mainstream news coverage of General Mladic because it presumes him to be innocent of charges of war crimes and genocide until he has been proven guilty. Furthermore, Ratko Mladic: Tragic Hero presumes that the West has been acting against its own best interests by supporting Islamic fundamentalist terrorism in the former Yugoslavia, while at the same time attempting to prosecute General Mladic for alleged crimes for which there is still no proof, even after the passage of more than a decade. Genegal Ratko Mladic was the first General to fight Islamic fundamentalism in Europe. Why has he been demonized while others, who have done little or nothing—or who have even aided and abetted the rise of Islamic fundamentalism—have been praised? "Ratko Mladic, Tragic Hero" consists of an abridgment of Mr. Stojadinovic’s book, "Ratko Mladic, Hero or War Criminal?" (Evro, Belgrade: 2001) which discusses Mladic’s biography, his successes and failures as a general, the dilemmas he faced as a soldier, and tries to answer the question: how good a general was he? and is he a war criminal? It is followed by "Bringing Democracy to Bosnia," by Gregory Elich, a respected journalist whose work has appeared on counterpunch.org and Covert Action, which examines the results of the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia, and demonstrates that the West has imposed a dictatorship in Bosnia that benefits only globalists and multinational corporations. Background chapters provide a context for the Bosnian War that the mainstream media has systematically ignored. "Bosniacs, Nazi Muslims, Mujahideen, and Bin Laden" traces the rise of Bosnian Muslim fascism and its connection to Islamic fundamentalism as exemplified by the Nazi SS Handzar Division during WWII, which was organized by Himmler and Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Alija Izetbegovic, former President of Bosnia-Herzegovina, began his career as recruiter for the Handzar Division and acted as a historical link, connecting resurgent Muslim fascism and fundamentalism in Yugoslavia in the 1990s to that of WWII. "Ustashi, Murderer Monks, and the Modern Croatian State" examines the Ustashi Nazi Puppet state created by Hitler in Croatia during WWII, and the involvement of the Roman Catholic clergy in the administration of the Jasenovac death camp, as well as many others like it. The contemporary Croatian state is shown to be a direct heir to the Croatian Nazi puppet state of WWII. The most controversial chapter is "Srebrenica, the Phantom Massacre," which analyzes the alleged "Srebrenica Massacre" and challenges the groundless accusation that "7,000 Muslim men and boys" were killed there. This analysis relies on mainstream news coverage of The Hague Tribunal, the work of independent analysts, and the Srebrenica Report (authored by Darko Trifunovic) that was issued by the Republika Srpska in 2002. UN High Representative Paddy Ashdown dismissed this 2002 Report without ever having read it. The analysis argues persuasively that at most about 1,800 armed Bosnian Muslim soldiers died in combat, and that about 100 were killed in summary executions. In other words, there was no massacre—only combat fatalities. Seventy pages of interviews with General Mladic appear in English for the first time, along with appendices that reprint key articles by David Binder, A.M. Rosenthal, Chris Hedges, Kosta Cavoski, and T.W. Carr. The Hague indictment is also reprinted "Ratko Mladic: Tragic Hero" will contribute to a greater understanding of General Mladic’s role in the Bosnian war that will benefit scholars, historians, journalists and students, as well as Americans who want to take a more critical look at U.S. military adventures overseas. Ratko Mladic is a tragic hero because he fought the rising tide of Islamic fundamentalism and neo-fascism in the Balka

Product Details

• Paperback: 730 pages
• Publisher: Unwritten History, Inc. (January 21, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970919808
• ISBN-13: 978-0970919809
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #330,751 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars history revealing, June 28, 2008

By	Nenad Curic - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

international influence in balkans is revealing. true history is coming outside although it is constantly pushed by protected interests of world key players. plain people suffered, countries poisoned with depleted uranium and while serbs, croats and bosniaks are trying to make best for their nations, they don't even seem to realize what kind of genocide was placed on them. i recommend this book to all regardless of what nationality you are; it showes a different perspective, one that will make you think about what really happened. people are people and when manipulated can commit horrific things. extremists will judge and hate and ordinary people will learn from history. unfortunatelly history repeats. fighting new world order is useless and all will play tune of european community and US soon enough. opposing it means suffering another war and being physically exterminated. going with the flow means loosing national identity and history. ratko mladic was opposed to this new order and marked as this book says tragic hero. couldn't be more accurate name for him.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very important work, March 28, 2008

By	Seth J. Frantzman (Jerusalem, Israel) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Most know him only as war criminal if they know him at all. Ratko Mladic, the commander of the Bosnian-Serb army in the early 1990s gained famed for his blunt speech and his military brilliance fighting Islamic extremism and Croatian fascism. However the West conspired to revitalize Nato and using the EU and the UN launched a brutal war against the Serbian people. Mladic served for years against this onslaught as world opinion was fed propaganda images and as the world was told that the Serbs were the 'new Nazis' and the Bosnians were the 'new Jews'. With the 'massacre' at Srebrenica the world was told that the Serbs had committed the worst 'act' of genocide since the Holocaust.

This book dares to present a very different one than the western media has created. In this book we learn about Mladic's journey from communist officer in Tito's army to patriotic defender of his people as they are being ethnically-cleansed and butchered by Bosnians and Croats. In the end we read about a tragic figure who has been betrayed by the world and even by his own backers in Belgrade. We see that military brilliance and honor are not values that can save one when the entire Muslim and western worlds are against them. Thus Mladic, like the Serbian people, is labeled 'war criminal' and must go into hiding.

But this book is far more than biography. It combines both biography and vignettes of Serbian and Balkan history that seek to show the reader the many sides of what took place in the Balkans in the 1990s. Articles illustrate the history of Croatian Nazism, the Ustasha movement, the role of Islamic fundamentalism among the Bosnians, an analysis of what really happened at Srebrenica and the true workings of the 'international Criminal Court' at the Hague.

This book is more than just a book about Mladic, a minor figure in world history, it is a tale about the modern world and the way in which western idealism and 'good intentions' combined with Islamic fundamentalism conspire to destroy unique and diverse peoples, peoples like the Serbs who fought against Totalitarian imperialism in the 19th century, against imperialism in the 1914 and against Nazism in 1941, only to be betrayed by the West and trodden under foot. The West found itself aiding people like the president of Croatia, a holocaust denier, and Islamic fundamentalists in Bosnia in their quest to destroy hundreds of Serb villagers and continue the genocide of the Serbs that had begun with the Nazis.

This book is a virtual encyclopedia of these histories. It is a condemnation of western policy and a wake up call to Americans and English speaking audiences who have never been exposed to this sort of material before. Here are revealed for the first time in English the words of Serbian women and men, witnesses, who saw the way in which the Croats, Bosnians and their Nato allies butchered Serbs, cleansed them and even beat old women and priest. Unspeakable stories of torture and genocide are revealed, ones that will shock readers and perhaps make a few people think about the policies the west has had towards Serbia and the policies it still has. A brilliant collection of essays and stories that anyone interested in the history of American foreign policy, the Balkans, Islamism, or modern Europe should not be without.

Seth J. Frantzman

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What you wont hear in the main stream media., September 24, 2008

By	Jack Straw "Dead One" (Serbia) - See all my reviews

Excellent book describing this mans past and the events that led to his leading a war of survival that the Serbian people were pushed into by the USA and Germany.