ZAGREB, Feb 7 (Hina) - A retired general of the Army of Serbia andMontenegro, Vladimir Lazarevic, who surrendered to the Hague warcrimes tribunal last week, on Monday entered a not-guilty plea to allfive counts of the indictment which
charges him with the persecution,deportations and killing of Albanian civilians in Kosovo in 1999 ascrimes against humanity.
ZAGREB, Feb 7 (Hina) - A retired general of the Army of Serbia and
Montenegro, Vladimir Lazarevic, who surrendered to the Hague war crimes
tribunal last week, on Monday entered a not-guilty plea to all five counts of
the indictment which charges him with the persecution, deportations and killing
of Albanian civilians in Kosovo in 1999 as crimes against humanity.Lt. Gen. Lazarevic (55), who was the commander of the Yugoslav Army
Pristina Corps during the Serb intervention in Kosovo in 1999, is charged on
the basis of individual and command responsibility for the persecution and
deportations of some 800,000 Albanians and the murder of several hundred
Albanian civilians. He is charged with four counts of crime against humanity
and one count of violations of the laws and customs of war.
The same indictment, which was unsealed on 20 October 2003, also
includes army general Nebojsa Pavkovic and police generals Vlastimir Djordjevic
and Sreten Lukic, who are still at large.
Pavkovic and Lukic are in Serbia and Djordjevic is believed to be in
Russia.