THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Dec 7 (Hina) - The trial of former Croatian Serbrebel leader Milan Martic is scheduled to start before theInternational Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) inThe Hague on Tuesday, 13 December, ICTY
spokesman Jim Landaleannounced in a telephone interview with Hina on Wednesday.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Dec 7 (Hina) - The trial of former Croatian Serb
rebel leader Milan Martic is scheduled to start before the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague on Tuesday, 13
December, ICTY spokesman Jim Landale announced in a telephone interview with
Hina on Wednesday. Martic, former minister of the interior and
defence in the rebel Serb government based in Knin and president of the
self-styled Serb statelet within Croatia in 1994/95, is charged with 19 counts
of crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war that
were committed against Croatian and other non-Serb civilians in the
Serb-occupied areas of Croatia from 1991 to 1995 and in western Bosnia in 1994.
The charges also include two missile attacks on Zagreb in May 1995.
He has been in ICTY custody since 15 May 2002.