And when he tried to protect the town from the upheaval Mladen says Dusan was press-ganged and

And when he tried to protect the town from the upheaval, Mladen says, Dusan was press-ganged and sent to the front. A piebald pig reaps for scraps beside the wooden tables that stand outside and three surly soldiers play pool at an outdoor table. They are not from Kozarac, and their unfriendly demeanour suggests they have been sent to keep an eye on Mladen.The local authorities and in particular the police chief in nearby Prijedor are not happy, Mladen says, with the Tadics’ campaign to clear Dusko. “Normal people, our neighbours, our friends, are supporting us as much as they can,” he said. “However the people who should be helping us the most are not giving us any support.”This, Mladen claims, is because Dusan, a local official, “knew what was actually happening here”. Virtually every house in Kozarac, once predominantly Muslim, stands gutted and abandoned, torched to ensure that the inhabitants who escaped would never come back.

Along the main street, lined with flowering chestnut trees, only a few buildings stand, those belonging to Serbs.One is the cafe that once belonged to Dusko, now run by Mladen. Dusan Tadic, his brother says, has Muslim friends (the charges include an allegation that he murdered one such friend) and even spoke out against the thugs looting and burning Muslim property in his home town, Kozarac.
“He is totally innocent,” Bosko, a middle-aged man wearing an electric- purple shell suit, said. “They say that all those houses that are not destroyed were saved by him. He protected them.”Perhaps he did, though, if so, his efforts came to nought. He is a walking PR campaign for his brother, Dusko, who goes on trial today at the Hague charged with crimes against humanity – specifically the torture and murder of Muslim men held at Omarska, a prison camp set up by the Bosnian Serbs in the summer of 1992 to hold the victims of “ethnic cleansing”. Many Canadians in English-speaking areas, applauded the event, while many in Quebec expressed outrage.However, Mr Chretien joked about the event on Saturday at a raucous annual dinner with the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery.. Kozarac – Mladen Tadic tells his story well, his phrases polished in interview after interview, his sincerity total.

He did not press charges himself, but said he thought that the authorities should charge the Prime Minister.The image of an angry Mr Chretien pushing Mr Clennett aside topped Canada’s front pages and television broadcasts. The charges carry a penalty of up to pounds 1,000 and/or six months in prison.
The Canadian Press news agency quoted a provincial prosecutor, Georges Benoit, as saying that the Prime Minister would not necessarily have to appear in person.Kenneth Russell, an unemployed New Brunswick man who was not involved in the clash brought the charges and the demonstrator who confronted Mr Chretien, Bill Clennett, said he supported the move, the agency said.Mr Clennett, from Quebec, said he lost a bridge and a crown to Mr Chretien’s iron grip. We know that the former director of social services, Gledwyn Jones, wrote to the chief inspector in October 1990 requesting, with the agreement of the county council, an inspection into the running of[another Clwyd home]. The chief inspector declined.”Our view, albeit with the benefit of hindsight, is that by that time the problems in Clwyd residential homes had reached an acute level, assistance from the Welsh Office …

might have gone towards identifying an abusive situation which only fully emerged over several years following the director’s request for help.”The Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State, Nicholas Bennett, [later] instructed the inspectorate to undertake a review … In undertaking the review, considerable reliance was placed on a postal questionnaire to obtain a profile of the service and of individual homes. This had the disadvantage of being dependant on information submitted by the providers…”The report analyses the responses of the eight Welsh local authorities. It states: ‘These responses reveal a service which has been poorly directed and undermanaged. If good work is being done, it is in spite of the lack of … explicit policies and a supportive management’.”Among the conclusions of the report is: ‘Training in the recognition of the signs of distress and the experiences of sexual abuse among children should be part of the skills package of all those working with children.’”…There is a well-established constellation of factors which is frequently associated with poor management and residential care and with the attitudes and behaviour of staff and children which can give strong pointers towards the possibility of abuse.”The factors identified as being present in situations of institutional abuse had all been consistently and obviously present in Clwyd over 20 years: Recruitment policy not standardised or rigorously implements.