BELGRADE, May 27 (Hina) - The Belgrade county court's investigating judge has decided to put Yugoslav war crimes indictee Ranko Cesic, who was arrested yesterday, into custody, the president of the court's investigative department,
Branislav Todic, said on Monday.
BELGRADE, May 27 (Hina) - The Belgrade county court's investigating
judge has decided to put Yugoslav war crimes indictee Ranko Cesic,
who was arrested yesterday, into custody, the president of the
court's investigative department, Branislav Todic, said on Monday.
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Cesic can appeal against the ruling within three days, Todic said.
Cesic was arrested on Sunday in Vranic, a village near Belgrade. He
was indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague in June 1995
for crimes against Croats and Muslim committed at the Luka
detention camp in Brcko, Bosnia. Hundreds of inmates were killed
there between May 7 and early July 1992. Cesic was a Bosnian citizen
before being granted Yugoslav documents in 2001.
A decision on his transfer to The Hague is made by the Yugoslav
Justice Ministry and carried out by the Serbian Interior Ministry,
said Todic.
Speaking about another Hague tribunal indictee, former Yugoslav
army (JNA) captain Vladimir Kovacevic aka Rambo, who has been
charged with war crimes committed in southern Croatia's Dubrovnik
area in 1991, Todic said Kovacevic was given a deadline expiring in
the middle of this week to surrender himself. Kovacevic had told the
Belgrade county court he would respect its decisions. He had been
the first Yugoslav indictee to report for surrender to the Hague
tribunal but eventually failed to appear within the deadline given
by the Yugoslav government.
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