BELGRADE, April 22 (Hina) - The former Yugoslav Army chief-of-staff Dragoljub Ojdanic, charged by the Hague tribunal with war crimes committed in Kosovo in 1999, said on Monday he might go to The Hague later this week.
BELGRADE, April 22 (Hina) - The former Yugoslav Army chief-of-staff
Dragoljub Ojdanic, charged by the Hague tribunal with war crimes
committed in Kosovo in 1999, said on Monday he might go to The Hague
later this week. #L#
Ojdanic told Uzice Radio he was not familiar with the Hague
indictment against him but that he did see a "joint document which
refers to an indictment against five former senior Yugoslav
officials."
Ojdanic said he did not view his trip to The Hague as surrender but a
moral obligation towards "the young fellow soldiers who lost their
lives while defending their homeland."
"My departure to The Hague is not a voluntary surrender. I am using
the best solution offered by the federal law on cooperation with the
Hague tribunal, so that I can defend the honour of the people and the
army," said Ojdanic.
He added his conscience was clean and that he slept peacefully as he
had "respected all international conventions on the waging of war."
He said he was willing to offer precise documents about his
innocence.
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