BELGRADE, Dec 1 (Hina) - Serbia has carried out an investigation into war crimes committed at Ovcara in eastern Croatia in 1991, while those who issued orders for those crimes are in The Hague. These are two separate processes, and
proving the guilt of the former does not rule out the guilt of the latter, Florance Hartmann, spokeswoman for the chief prosecutor of the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, has said in an interview with the Belgrade-based Danas daily.
BELGRADE, Dec 1 (Hina) - Serbia has carried out an investigation
into war crimes committed at Ovcara in eastern Croatia in 1991,
while those who issued orders for those crimes are in The Hague.
These are two separate processes, and proving the guilt of the
former does not rule out the guilt of the latter, Florance Hartmann,
spokeswoman for the chief prosecutor of the UN war crimes tribunal
in The Hague, has said in an interview with the Belgrade-based Danas
daily. #L#
Hartmann's statement follows an announcement by Bogdan Stankovic,
a deputy to the special war crimes prosecutor in Serbia, that an
indictment would soon be issued against six persons suspected of
committing war crimes on the Ovcara farm outside Vukovar.
"I will be able to comment on the announced indictment only when it
has been issued and when I become familiar with its content,"
Hartmann said, adding that "the Office of the Prosecutor of the
Hague tribunal has helped the investigators in Serbia by providing
them with evidence of the crimes at Ovcara." She said that the
Serbian investigators had recently visited The Hague.
Stankovic announced last Saturday that an indictment would be
issued against the six suspects who were in custody, while other
suspects were on the run.
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