ERDUT/DALJ, May 7 (Hina) - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Carla del Ponte, on Tuesday visited the former Zeljko Raznjatovic-Arkan training centre and the headquarters of the so-called government
of rebel Serbs in the Erdut castle.
ERDUT/DALJ, May 7 (Hina) - The International Criminal Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Carla del Ponte, on Tuesday visited
the former Zeljko Raznjatovic-Arkan training centre and the
headquarters of the so-called government of rebel Serbs in the
Erdut castle.#L#
Del Ponte was accompanied by Croatian vice premier Goran Granic,
Justice Minister Ingrid Anticevic Marinovic and the head of the
government's office for relations with the Hague-based tribunal,
Orsat Miljanic.
Del Ponte and the Croatian government officials attended a video
presentation on the war in the region, held in the Erdut castle
where in November 1995 an agreement on peaceful reintegration of
eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Srijem was signed. The
presentation was held without media representatives.
In Dalj, del Ponte visited a police station destroyed in the
Homeland War and was informed of war events in Erdut since August 1,
1991, when 20 policemen, 15 members of the Croatian National Guard
Corps and 4 civil protection members were killed in the Greater
Serbian aggression.
The ICTY Chief Prosecutor briefly met a witness of the occupation of
the town. It is estimated that between 60 and 200 people were killed
in the Erdut municipality. Of this number, 35 bodies have been
exhumed from wells in the area.
So far, 16 mass graves containing victims of the Serb aggression
have been discovered in Osijek Baranja-County and 197 bodies have
been exhumed. Another 110 persons from the county are still
registered as missing and detained.
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