THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Dec 11 (Hina) - The defence team of Bosnian Croat General, Tihomir Blaskic, sentenced by the Hague-based UN tribunal to 45 years in prison, on Thursday wrapped up the presentation of evidence at a two-week appeals
hearing before the tribunal's Appeals Chamber by calling a witness, a commander of local Muslim forces in Stari Vitez in 1990s, to the stand.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Dec 11 (Hina) - The defence team of Bosnian Croat
General, Tihomir Blaskic, sentenced by the Hague-based UN tribunal
to 45 years in prison, on Thursday wrapped up the presentation of
evidence at a two-week appeals hearing before the tribunal's
Appeals Chamber by calling a witness, a commander of local Muslim
forces in Stari Vitez in 1990s, to the stand. #L#
The hearing will resume on Tuesday and Wednesday when the defence
and prosecution teams are to give closing arguments in this part of
the trial. After that Blaskic, accused of war crimes his troops
committed in central Bosnia in 1993 and 1994, will address the five-
member appeals chamber.
At the end of the appeals hearing, the chamber is to decide whether
the new 73 pieces of evidence that have been presented could justify
the alteration of the verdict of the Tribunal's trial chamber that
found Blaskic guilty in March 2000, and sentenced him to 45 years in
jail. Blaskic has been in the tribunal's custody since 1 April
1996.
(hina) ms sb