ZAGREB, March 10 (Hina) - Generals Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac will on Thursday morning leave Zagreb on a regular flight to Amsterdam, where they will be met by the Dutch police and escorted to the detention centre of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Scheveningen district of The Hague.
ZAGREB, March 10 (Hina) - Generals Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac will
on Thursday morning leave Zagreb on a regular flight to Amsterdam,
where they will be met by the Dutch police and escorted to the
detention centre of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Scheveningen district of The Hague.#L#
The two generals, indicted by the ICTY for war crimes against humanity
and violations of the laws and customs of war, will travel together
with their lawyers Cedo Prodanovic, Miroslav Separovic and Goran
Mikulicic. Assistant Justice Minister Jaksa Muljacic will also fly
with them, the Croatian office for cooperation with the ICTY told Hina
on Wednesday.
The lawyers said that their clients were in a good physical and mental
condition. The initial appearance of the indictees before the ICTY is
scheduled for Friday afternoon, when they should enter their pleas.
The tribunal's prosecutions charges Markac and Cermak on individual
and command responsibility with seven counts of crimes against
humanity and breaches of the laws and customs of war committed as part
of a joint criminal enterprise through the expulsion and killing of at
least 150 Krajina Serbs, the plunder and destruction of their
property, the random destruction of towns and villages, the
deportation and forced resettlement of the population and other
inhumane acts, committed in the period between August 4 and November
15, 1995.
(Hina) ms sb