BELGRADE, July 11 (Hina) - All in Serbia for whom there is ground to suspect that they committed war crimes, regardless of their political, military or police standing, will be tried, and the first to be prosecuted will be the 1991
massacre in Croatia's Ovcara, said Vladimir Vukcevic, whom the Serbian government nominated war crimes prosecutor on Thursday.
BELGRADE, July 11 (Hina) - All in Serbia for whom there is ground to
suspect that they committed war crimes, regardless of their
political, military or police standing, will be tried, and the
first to be prosecuted will be the 1991 massacre in Croatia's
Ovcara, said Vladimir Vukcevic, whom the Serbian government
nominated war crimes prosecutor on Thursday. #L#
"Nobody will be untouchable. Everyone for whom there is even the
slightest suspicion that they committed a war crimes will be put on
trial," he told Serbian Radio-Television.
Vukcevic, until recently Belgrade district deputy public
prosecutor, said the whole pre-trial investigations for war crimes
would be secret.
He voiced hope that some cases which are currently within the
jurisdiction of the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
at The Hague will handed over to Serbia's judiciary.
A new law on war crimes adopted recently by the Serbian parliament
went into force on Thursday but will not applied in trials which
have already begun.
Vukcevic announced a department would be set up within the police
for the uncovering of war crimes, while a special council will also
be established with the Belgrade district court.
Justice Minister Vladan Batic said earlier the first war crimes
trials might start this autumn.
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