SARAJEVO, April 8 (Hina) - The ICTY indictments against four high ranking war-time Bosniak political and military leaders have already been signed and they are expect to be forwarded to the authorities in Sarajevo in the coming days,
the Sarajevo-based Oslobodjenje daily and Banja-Luka's Nezavisne Novine daily wrote on Thursday.
SARAJEVO, April 8 (Hina) - The ICTY indictments against four high
ranking war-time Bosniak political and military leaders have already
been signed and they are expect to be forwarded to the authorities in
Sarajevo in the coming days, the Sarajevo-based Oslobodjenje daily and
Banja-Luka's Nezavisne Novine daily wrote on Thursday.#L#
Citing sources close to the Office of the ICTY Prosecutor, the dailies
say that along with Ejup Ganic, Rasim Delic and Sakib Mahmuljin, also
indicted will be Bosnian war-time interior minister Bakir Alispahic.
All four are allegedly indicted on command responsibility for crimes
against Croats in the Herzegovina village of Grabovica and in central
Bosnia, as well as for crimes against Serbs in the Ozren mountain
region and Kazina near Sarajevo.
The reaction of the potential indictees to such claims was reserved.
Bosnian government officials still claim they do not have any official
information on the matter.
Ganic, who was Alija Izetbegovic's closest associate during the war,
declined to make any comment.
The war-time Bosnian Army chief of staff and the current military
advisor to the chairman of the Bosnian Presidency, Rasim Delic, told
Nezavisne Novine he did not want to comment on such claims. He,
however, gave a statement for Dnevni Avaz daily.
"I did not receive any official document and nobody informed me that
an indictment against me had arrived from The Hague. So the only thing
that I can say is that this is mere speculation," Delic said.
Sulejman Tihic also said he knew nothing about the indictments,
stressing that in his opinion there were no grounds for an indictment
against Delic.
He, however, confirmed that he personally and his Party of Democratic
Action would fully cooperate with the Hague tribunal regardless of
whom the indictment was issued against.
The chairman of the Bosnian Council of Ministers, Adnan Terzic, said
he did not receive the indictments and if they existed he would have
known about them.
Bosniak liaison officer Amir Ahmic said said there had been
speculations about investigations into some officials for a long time
which was why one should not exclude the possibility of new ICTY
indictments.
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