THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, July 7 (Hina) - Bosnian Serb Zeljko Mejakic, former commander of the Omarska concentration camp near Prijedor in northwestern Bosnia, pleaded not guilty to charges of crimes against humanity and violations of the
laws and customs of war before the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Monday.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, July 7 (Hina) - Bosnian Serb Zeljko Mejakic,
former commander of the Omarska concentration camp near Prijedor in
northwestern Bosnia, pleaded not guilty to charges of crimes
against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war
before the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Monday. #L#
In April 1992, when Serb forces launched an ethnic cleansing
campaign in the Prijedor area, Mejakic was commander of the Omarska
police station, while from May to August he was commander of the
notorious camp set up in a disused mining complex where more than
3,000 Bosnian Moslems and Croats were held in brutal conditions.
According to the indictment issued in February 1995, Mejakic was
"in a position of superior authority to everyone else in the camp"
in which prisoners were killed, tortured and sexually abused.
(hina) vm sb