SARAJEVO, April 30 (Hina) - The chairman of the Bosnian Serb entity's Helsinki Committee on Human Rights has accused Bosnia's incumbent Deputy Foreign Minister, Milovan Blagojevic, of direct participation in war crimes and ethnic
cleansing, and has called on the judiciary to establish Blagojevic's responsibility.
SARAJEVO, April 30 (Hina) - The chairman of the Bosnian Serb
entity's Helsinki Committee on Human Rights has accused Bosnia's
incumbent Deputy Foreign Minister, Milovan Blagojevic, of direct
participation in war crimes and ethnic cleansing, and has called on
the judiciary to establish Blagojevic's responsibility. #L#
The Nezavisne Novine daily quoted Branko Todorovic on Tuesday as
saying that Blagojevic was responsible for war crimes committed in
the Bjeljina area in 1992 when, as a member of the Serb Democratic
Party (SDS), he held the office of vice-president of the municipal
executive committee.
"As a senior SDS official in Bjeljina, Blagojevic organised,
planned and executed ethnic cleansing and a massive violation of
human rights. There is suspicion that he was involved in the
planning of crimes in which entire Bosniak (Muslim) families
disappeared," said Todorovic.
He added it was sad that a person like Blagojevic today held the
office of deputy foreign minister.
After the war, Blagojevic left the SDS and joined the Party of
Democratic Progress of incumbent Bosnian Serb Prime Minister
Mladen Ivanic. Former SDS associates later accused Blagojevic of
having personally founded the Batkovic detention camp near
Bjeljina, where numerous non-Serbs were maltreated.
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