THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Dec 1 (Hina) - The Bosniak member of Bosnia's state presidency, Sulejman Tihic, has arrived in The Hague where he is due to testify against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic before the U.N. war crimes
tribunal, Hina learned at the Bosnian Embassy in the Netherlands on Monday.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Dec 1 (Hina) - The Bosniak member of Bosnia's
state presidency, Sulejman Tihic, has arrived in The Hague where he
is due to testify against former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic before the U.N. war crimes tribunal, Hina learned at the
Bosnian Embassy in the Netherlands on Monday. #L#
Today Tihic is preparing with officials of the Prosecutor's Office
the statement he will give at the trial, the embassy source said,
adding that Tihic would probably testify on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Tihic was captured in Bosanski Samac in 1992. He then spent three
months in Serb-held detention camps in that town, Brcko and
Bijeljina in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and in prisons in Srijemska
Mitrovica and Batajnica in Serbia.
He has said on several occasions that he will be proud to testify
against Milosevic.
Tihic has already testified before the Hague tribunal, in a trial
for war crimes in Bosanski Samac. The prosecution's questions will
probably refer to crimes committed against Croats and Bosniaks in
that north-eastern Bosnian area which are mentioned in 22 counts of
the Milosevic indictment concerning genocide in Bosnia.
Milosevic is accused, amongst other things, of the forcible
expulsion of 1,780 Croats and Bosniaks from the Bosanski Samac area
in 1992 and the killing of at least 17 detainees at the local Crkvina
camp. Of 17,000 Croats and Bosniaks who lived in the town in 1991,
only 300 remained by the end of the war mid-decade.
The prosecution should complete the presentation of evidence by the
end of February.
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