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Friday, 29 June, 2001, 17:17 GMT 18:17 UK
Viewpoint: Milosevic handover hailed
![]() Relief greeted the news of Milosevic's extradition
Srdjan Simonovic, an English teacher at Belgrade University, and Amna Dumpor from Mostar, in Bosnia-Hercegovina - who lost 16 members of her family in the Bosnian war - told BBC Radio 5 Live how they felt when they heard the news of Slobodan Milosevic's extradition.
Srdjan Simonovic: I am very pleasantly surprised. I couldn't wait for this event and I think it really marks the end of an era. My girlfriend and the members of my family share my feelings absolutely. Everyone expected that it would happen at some point but we were surprised that it actually happened so fast.
A lot of people (have learned more about his alleged crimes) especially, maybe, in the last month or so, since the bodies that were in the refrigerated truck have been found. And the Hague tribunal representatives are here now - they are much more present in the media - so I think that also had an impact on public opinion. I must say that this is a great relief in the sense that I believe that we are now secure in the sense that I think that the chance of his coming to power again - ever - is ruled out by his extradition. Amna Dumpor: The news is still fresh. Feelings are very mixed. They don't only involve my emotions and passions through everything that happened, they also involve politics, economics, psychological matters - there are so many issues around what happen over the past decade and what happened yesterday.
I can never forget May 1992 when I was in the shelter of my home town of Mostar... when I heard on the radio, a Yugoslav Army general telling the people of Mostar that he was going to shoot the hospital at 4pm. I just can't believe that a human person can be capable of such a thing.
He is the reason that we lost much more than our home town. We lost all our opportunities, my dreams - he shattered everything. I am just speaking from my heart. It is not just to accuse him of the facts - it is just to look at the things in a more emotional and human way. We are talking about human issues here. People should vote - there should be global voting, if necessary, so he could be put away. Even by association he is guilty as charged for everything that happened from 1991 in the Balkans. |
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