THE HAGUE, Feb 19 (Hina) - The defence team in the Kordic-Cerkez case should view by mid-April some 40,000 pages of new material recently submitted by the prosecution of the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague, and decide whether to
demand the introduction of new evidence, a judge with the tribunal's chamber of appeals, David Hunt, said on Tuesday. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Feb. 26, 2000 sentenced Kordic, a former vice president of the Croat Republic of Herceg-Bosna, to 25, and Cerkez, a former commander of the Vitez brigade, to 15 years in prison for the persecution of Muslims in Central Bosnia. Kordic and Cerkez had surrendered to the Hague-based Tribunal, together with another eight Bosnian Croats, on Oct. 6, 1997. The defence appealed against the sentences last year.(hina) ha sb
THE HAGUE, Feb 19 (Hina) - The defence team in the Kordic-Cerkez
case should view by mid-April some 40,000 pages of new material
recently submitted by the prosecution of the UN war crimes tribunal
at The Hague, and decide whether to demand the introduction of new
evidence, a judge with the tribunal's chamber of appeals, David
Hunt, said on Tuesday.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) on Feb. 26, 2000 sentenced Kordic, a former vice president of
the Croat Republic of Herceg-Bosna, to 25, and Cerkez, a former
commander of the Vitez brigade, to 15 years in prison for the
persecution of Muslims in Central Bosnia.
Kordic and Cerkez had surrendered to the Hague-based Tribunal,
together with another eight Bosnian Croats, on Oct. 6, 1997.
The defence appealed against the sentences last year.
(hina) ha sb