THE HYPOCRISY OF ČEDOMIR ANTIĆ: The man who in 2006 helped G17 bring down the Serbian government over its failure to extradite Ratko Mladić now interviews his son and talks about “shame”!

Historian Čedomir Antić hosted Darko, the son of General Ratko Mladić, on his authorial podcast “Perspectives,” which airs on K1 television.

In this interview, Darko Mladić spoke about the intimate and lesser-known side of life in the shadow of his father, General Ratko Mladić.

One of the main topics of the conversation was the attitude of the Serbian state, its authorities and political elites toward his father, a JNA general who would later become commander of the Main Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska.

Guided by Antić’s questions, the younger Mladić complained that the Serbian state, during the government of Boris Tadić and after his father’s arrest and extradition, sent as many as 40 lawyers/attorneys to assist the Hague Tribunal’s Prosecutor’s Office in the proceedings against Ratko Mladić.

However, many seem to have forgotten that Čedomir Antić, at the time a member of the G17 Plus party, together with his party colleagues, led a fierce campaign in 2006 demanding that the Serbian government, then headed by Vojislav Koštunica, begin actively cooperating with the Hague Tribunal and fulfill its most important demand – the extradition of General Ratko Mladić.

G17 Plus demanded that Koštunica and his coalition partners immediately extradite Mladić and the other indictees because this was also a condition set by the European Union for the continuation of Serbia’s membership negotiations.

It was precisely for this reason that G17 leader Miroljub Labus resigned as deputy prime minister in May 2006, after which a crisis followed that ended with the fall of Koštunica’s government on October 1 of the same year, followed by early parliamentary elections in January 2007.

It is worth noting that in the meantime, sometime in mid-September 2006, Čedomir Antić resigned from all positions in G17 Plus, but not because he disagreed with the party’s policy, but because Mlađan Dinkić had not nominated him for deputy party leader several days earlier, a position he had allegedly promised him.

After that, Antić founded the politically insignificant Forward Club, and today, 20 years later, the time has come for him to interview the son of the man whom he once so passionately wanted to see arrested and sent to The Hague.

Somewhere they would call that hypocrisy, but apparently not in Serbia, where everything is forgotten within 24 hours.

Source: Antonije Kovačević; Foto: Printscreen/Youtube/ ETA/ Nova