John Laughland on General Mladic
IDC's Director of Studies, who was in Belgrade on 26 May when General Mladic was arrested, told RT on 27 May 2011 that there is no chance he will get a fair trial. "General Mladic was proclaimed guilty by the Hague Tribunal in 2001 when it convicted his colleague, General Radislav Krstic," he said. "There is therefore no way he can get a fair trial since the ICTY, in his case, clearly does not respect the principle of the presumption of innocence."
John Laughland sur l'arrestation du général Ratko Mladić
Le 27 mai 2011, John Laughland est intervenu sur la chaîne "Russia Today" sur l’arrestation du général Ratko Mladić. Selon le Directeur des Etudes de l'IDC, son procès ne pourra pas être équitable parce que le Tribunal pénal international de La Haye l'a déjà condamné dans des jugements précédents, notamment dans celui du procès Krstic en 2001.
John Laughland on the situation in Côte d'Ivoire
IDC's Director of Studies told RT the conflict in Cote d'Ivoire is the product of an ongoing crisis with a number of deep-seated causes, including the colonial past of the country and the recent two men rivalry. But the West, in this case France, by means of the UN has got into the habit of intervening systematically in other people’s conflicts.
“What the Cote d’Ivoire intervention shows, because after all we are now in the situation where there’s bloodshed and has been now for several weeks, is that the international intervention doesn’t work,” says Laughland.
“This is all shadow play. France’s intervention is political and not humanitarian, it is intervening in order to bring to power a particular man,” adds Laughland.
Natalia Narochnitskaya on START Treaty
Dr Natalia Narochnitkaya, the President of Institute of Democracy and Cooperation, explained that "everybody in Russia took the signing of this treaty as a major step forward and as a certain proof that President Obama really thinks of reconfiguring American policy... The START treaty is a source of certain hope, but a real historic act is judged afterwards by the real policy, real results and deeds.”
Natalia Narochnitskaya on "Russia Today"
Natalia Narochnitskaya spoke about the proposal to make it a criminal offence to deny the role of the Soviet Union in the defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II
