MOSTAR, Feb 25 (Hina) - The Hague-based war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has allowed the Hercegovina-Neretva Canton Court in southern Bosnia-Herzegovina to initiate proceedings against three Croats from Stolac, a town
east of the canton's seat of Mostar, officials at the Canton Court in Mostar confirmed on Monday. Judges with the court explained that warrants for the arrest of the three men had been issued last autumn because they had refused to turn themselves in and were currently at large. The three Croats are not on the latest list of 62 persons whose prosecution by Bosnian courts the Hague tribunal approved last week. The three Croats are charged with the torture and beating of a number of Bosniak prisoners at a hospital in Stolac in the autumn of 1993. It is suspected that five Bosniak prisoners died as a consequence of the torture.(hina) rml
MOSTAR, Feb 25 (Hina) - The Hague-based war crimes tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia has allowed the Hercegovina-Neretva Canton Court
in southern Bosnia-Herzegovina to initiate proceedings against
three Croats from Stolac, a town east of the canton's seat of
Mostar, officials at the Canton Court in Mostar confirmed on
Monday.
Judges with the court explained that warrants for the arrest of the
three men had been issued last autumn because they had refused to
turn themselves in and were currently at large.
The three Croats are not on the latest list of 62 persons whose
prosecution by Bosnian courts the Hague tribunal approved last
week.
The three Croats are charged with the torture and beating of a
number of Bosniak prisoners at a hospital in Stolac in the autumn of
1993. It is suspected that five Bosniak prisoners died as a
consequence of the torture.
(hina) rml