BELGRADE, June 14 (Hina) - The Hague war crimes tribunal's deputy chief prosecutor said on Friday that future indictments might include crimes the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) committed in Kosovo after the arrival of international
troops in 1999.
BELGRADE, June 14 (Hina) - The Hague war crimes tribunal's deputy
chief prosecutor said on Friday that future indictments might
include crimes the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) committed in Kosovo
after the arrival of international troops in 1999. #L#
This will be preceded by the question of jurisdiction over the
matter as the tribunal can prosecute only crimes committed during
armed conflicts, Graham Blewitt said in Belgrade, addressing an
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe conference on
war crimes trials.
Indictments against some KLA members, as well as some Serbs, might
be filed by the end of the year, said Blewitt, adding that senior
political and military figures were among them.
Blewitt supported an intiative for the establishment of a special
Serbian prosecutor's office which would investigate crimes
committed by Serbian citizens in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and
Kosovo.
The Hague tribunal's prosecution is conducting 25 investigations
which will probably result in around 35 indictments against about
100 Croats, Bosnian Croats, Bosniaks, Bosnian Serbs, KLA members,
some perpetrators of crimes committed in Macedonia, and some
Serbs.
The Belgrade conference is attended by judges, prosecutors,
lawyers, government officials from Serbia, Montenegro, and
Yugoslavia, non-governmental organisations. The US ambassador for
war crimes' issues, Pierre Richard Prosper, will make an address on
Saturday.
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