THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, March 15 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav People's Army Captain Vladimir Kovacevic aka Rambo, whom the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indicted for shelling the southern Croatia's seaside
resort of Dubrovnik in 1991, will undergo psychiatric treatment or be provisionally released with mandatory medical treatment, an ICTY status conference heard on Monday.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, March 15 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav People's Army
Captain Vladimir Kovacevic aka Rambo, whom the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indicted for shelling the
southern Croatia's seaside resort of Dubrovnik in 1991, will undergo
psychiatric treatment or be provisionally released with mandatory
medical treatment, an ICTY status conference heard on Monday.#L#
The Trial Chamber in the case will adopt a decision on the legal
framework for Kovacevic's treatment, namely whether he is to undergo
treatment in ICTY detention or during his provisional release, it was
decided at the conference.
Kovacevic, aged 43, was arrested on September 25, 2003. Since his
initial appearance before the tribunal on November 3 last year,
Kovacevic failed to enter his plea due to psychological difficulties..
His attorneys submitted to court the findings of Yugoslav
psychiatrists who diagnosed Kovacevic with post-traumatic stress
disorder,
(Hina) it sb