STEVANDIĆ: HAGUE MECHANISM DECISION DENIES HUMANISM AND EUROPEAN VALUES

ČELINAC, AUGUST 22 /SRNA/ — Republika Srpska National Assembly Speaker Nenad Stevandić has stressed that the decision by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals to once again reject a request for General Ratko Mladić to be provisionally released for medical treatment represents a denial of European civilization and humanism.

Stevandić said that in humanitarian medicine, a patient is assessed solely on the basis of their diagnosis, not their nationality or criminal-legal status.

"When a person’s life is at risk, the only priority is to save it. But this is satanic medicine, these are satanic protocols that have nothing to do with the Hippocratic Oath. Here, the aim is to inflict as much pain and suffering as possible on a person, even though the Hippocratic Oath says that you will treat a patient regardless of race, sex, nationality, status or identity," Stevandić told reporters in Čelinac.

The Hague Mechanism yesterday rejected a request for General Ratko Mladić to be released for medical treatment in Serbia.

The general's son, Darko Mladić, told SRNA that two judges had supported his father's release this time, but that Mechanism President Graciela Gatti Santana had rejected their arguments, saying it had not been demonstrated that he would receive better care in Serbia than in the Netherlands.

He said that staff at the detention hospital had stopped measuring his father's blood pressure and performing ECGs, and had discontinued his diabetes medication.