BELGRADE AUTHORITIES INFORMED OF INDICTMENTS AGAINST STANISIC, SIMATOVIC

BELGRADE, May 5 (Hina) - The Embassy of Serbia and Montenegro at The Hague was informed on Monday of an indictment issued by the UN war crimes tribunal against a former head of the Yugoslav intelligence service, Jovica Stanisic, and a former commander in chief and the founder of the unit for special operations (the so-called Red Berets), Franko Simatovic, Serbia and Montenegro's Foreign Minister, Goran Svilanovic, told the B92 television. #L# Stanisic and Simonic are indicted for the participation in joint crimes aimed at the violent removal of non-Serb population from large parts of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina and the integration of those part into a new Serb-dominated state during the wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1991-1995. The two are indicted for crimes against humanity and the violation of the laws and customs of war, inhumane treatment of prisoners, deportations, persecutions and killings. Stanisic and Simatovic are currently detained in the Belgrade Central Prison, after being arrested in mid March under suspicion of being involved in the assassination of Serb Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. (hina) it sb