THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Nov 21 (Hina) - Former Bosnian Serb government official Miroslav Deronjic told the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Friday that Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic had ordered that all Bosniaks who had
managed to escape from Srebrenica after Serb forces overran the eastern Bosnian town, be killed.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Nov 21 (Hina) - Former Bosnian Serb government
official Miroslav Deronjic told the UN war crimes tribunal in The
Hague on Friday that Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic
had ordered that all Bosniaks who had managed to escape from
Srebrenica after Serb forces overran the eastern Bosnian town, be
killed. #L#
"You should kill them, kill everyone you can," Deronjic quoted
Karadzic as telling him a few days after the capture of Srebrenica
in July 1995.
Deronjic, who pleaded guilty to crimes against humanity committed
in 1992 in Bratunac where he was chief of the so-called Crisis
Staff, testified in a preliminary hearing on Friday ahead of an
appeals hearing in the case of Bosnian Serb general Radoslav Krstic
scheduled for November 26 and 27.
The tribunal sentenced Krstic to 46 years' imprisonment on 2 August
2001 for responsibility for the genocide in Srebrenica. Both the
defence and the prosecution appealed against the judgement.
More than 7,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men aged from 16 to 77 were killed
after the fall of Srebrenica by the Serb forces under the command of
General Ratko Mladic.
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