BELGRADE, May 23 (Hina) - ICTY indictees Veselin Sljivancanin and Ratko Mladic enjoyed the protection of the army during and after Slobodan Milosevic's regime, Serbia & Montenegro's Defence Minister Boris Tadic stated on
Friday.
BELGRADE, May 23 (Hina) - ICTY indictees Veselin Sljivancanin and
Ratko Mladic enjoyed the protection of the army during and after
Slobodan Milosevic's regime, Serbia & Montenegro's Defence
Minister Boris Tadic stated on Friday. #L#
Veselin Sljivancanin was last seen in January this year near a
military facility while both he and Ratko Mladic enjoyed both
bodily protection and shelter in army complexes in Serbia and
Montenegro before and after the fall of Slobodan Milosevic's regime
on 5 October 2000, Tadic told Radio B92.
He confirmed that from time to time Mladic and Sljivancanin
appeared in army complexes until the adoption of the federal law on
cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia last May.
After being appointed defence minister, Tadic gave orders on the
obligation to cooperate with the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague
which refers to all Serb and Montenegrin military structures. He
reiterated on several occasions that if the two were located on
Serbian and Montenegrin territory they would be arrested
immediately and extradited to The Hague.
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