MOSTAR, April 6 (Hina) - Attorney Josip Muselimovic, who is representing ICTY indictee Ivica Rajic, will talk with his client about the defence strategy on Monday in Zagreb on Monday. Muselimovic confirmed this in a phone interview on
Sunday.
MOSTAR, April 6 (Hina) - Attorney Josip Muselimovic, who is
representing ICTY indictee Ivica Rajic, will talk with his client
about the defence strategy on Monday in Zagreb on Monday.
Muselimovic confirmed this in a phone interview on Sunday. #L#
"After talks with client we will know what measures to take,"
Muselimovic said and added that his second chair, attorney Zeljko
Olujic would today appeal against the so-called three-month
extradition custody. Muselimovic, however, confirmed that his
client would be extradite to the Hague-based war crimes tribunal.
A former commander of the Croat Defence Council (HVO) Ivica Rajic,
nabbed in Zagreb on Saturday evening, is indicted by the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
for the killing of a score of Muslim villagers in Stupni Do on 23
October 1993, and for the destruction of that village near Vares,
central Bosnia.
Ivica Rajic, aka Viktor Andric, was the commander of the Second
Operational Group of the HVO based in Kiseljak, and is regarded
liable for the slaying of at least 16 inhabitants of the Stupni Do
village on 23 October 1993, according to the ICTY's indictment.
Commanding an illegal attack on civilians and failing to take
measures aimed at preventing such an attack which claimed the lives
of villagers and destroyed almost completely the village, Rajic
seriously violated the Geneva convention and the laws and customs
of war.
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