THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, May 6 (Hina) - The ICTY trial of four former senior officers of the Army of Bosnian Serbs, indicted for genocide and war crimes in Srebrenica in July 1995, which should have started on Tuesday, was postponed until
May 8.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, May 6 (Hina) - The ICTY trial of four former
senior officers of the Army of Bosnian Serbs, indicted for genocide
and war crimes in Srebrenica in July 1995, which should have started
on Tuesday, was postponed until May 8. #L#
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia did
not state the reasons for the delay.
The first on the indictment, Lt. Col. Vidoje Blagojevic, commander
of the Republika Srpska Army's Bratunac Brigade, is indicted on
command and individual responsibility for participating in
genocide, crimes against humanity and the violation of the laws and
customs of war.
Blagojevic and another three officers are indicted for genocide and
war crimes. All four are charged with having participated in a joint
criminal enterprise aimed at the forced relocation of women and
children from the Srebrenica enclave to Kladanj on July 12 and 13,
1995, and the detention and execution of more than 7,000 Bosnia
Muslim men aged 16-60 on July 12-19, 1995.
The slaughter which the Bosnian Serb forces committed after taking
over Srebrenica is the gravest individual war crime committed in
Europe after World War II.
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