THE HAGUE, April 2 (Hina) - The Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal said on Tuesday that Momir Nikolic, a Bosnian Serb accused of genocide in Srebrenica, had arrived at the tribunal's prison at Scheveningen. The 47-year-old Nikolic was
arrested on Monday on a sealed indictment by NATO's Stabilisation Force in Bosnia. In July 1995, when 7,000-8,000 people in Srebrenica were killed in a Bosnian Serb attack on this UN haven, Nikolic was the Bratunac Brigade commander's assistant for security and intelligence. Nikolic should be arraigned on Wednesday. The Hague tribunal has already passed one sentence for the Srebrenica genocide. Radoslav Krstic, at the time the commander of the Drina Corps, was sentenced to 46 years in prison. The commander of the Bratunac Brigade, Vidoje Blagojevic, the deputy commander of the Zvornik Brigade, Dragan Obrenovic, and the commander of the Zvornik Brigade's engineer units, Dr
THE HAGUE, April 2 (Hina) - The Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal
said on Tuesday that Momir Nikolic, a Bosnian Serb accused of
genocide in Srebrenica, had arrived at the tribunal's prison at
Scheveningen.
The 47-year-old Nikolic was arrested on Monday on a sealed
indictment by NATO's Stabilisation Force in Bosnia.
In July 1995, when 7,000-8,000 people in Srebrenica were killed in a
Bosnian Serb attack on this UN haven, Nikolic was the Bratunac
Brigade commander's assistant for security and intelligence.
Nikolic should be arraigned on Wednesday.
The Hague tribunal has already passed one sentence for the
Srebrenica genocide. Radoslav Krstic, at the time the commander of
the Drina Corps, was sentenced to 46 years in prison. The commander
of the Bratunac Brigade, Vidoje Blagojevic, the deputy commander of
the Zvornik Brigade, Dragan Obrenovic, and the commander of the
Zvornik Brigade's engineer units, Dragan Jokic, are detained at
Scheveningen pending trial for the same crime.
Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, and Ratko Mladic,
the former commander of the Bosnian Serb army, are also accused for
the Srebrenica genocide.
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