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CROATIA: BOSNIAN WAR CRIMINAL SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS IN JAIL

KARLOVAC, July 31 (Hina) - The court in the Croatian town of Karlovac on Wednesday proclaimed Fikret Abdic guilty of war crimes and sentenced him to 20-year-long imprisonment.
KARLOVAC, July 31 (Hina) - The court in the Croatian town of Karlovac on Wednesday proclaimed Fikret Abdic guilty of war crimes and sentenced him to 20-year-long imprisonment. #L# Abdic was tried for war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war on two counts of the indictment which was issued in August 1996 by the High Public Prosecutor in Bihac, north-western Bosnia- Herzegovina. Pursuant to a ruling by the Supreme Court of Croatia, the trial was transferred to Croatia's judiciary a year ago, namely to the Karlovac County Court, based on an agreement between the governments of the two countries regarding legal assistance signed in 1996. Abdic has the dual citizenship (Croatian and Bosnian) and therefore could be tried in Croatia, after he surrendered himself to Rijeka police. The charges against Abdic burden him with acting against the Constitution of Bosnia when he proclaimed the Autonomous Region of Western Bosnia and as supreme commander of the so-called National Defence of Western Bosnia, ordered, planned and organised the opening of prisoner of war camps and collection centres in the Velika Kladusa Municipality for the purpose of detaining citizens who opposed the autonomous region. The charges note that the camps were a site of inhumane treatment, forced military service in paramilitary units, forced hunger and forced labour for enemy forces. Expounding the first-instance ruling, Jasminka Jerinic-Musnjak, the president of the panel of judges in the Karlovac county court, said the verdict was based on the Croatia's Penal Code, and the sentence was maximum, as the acts cited in the indictment were treated as the gravest crimes according to Croatia's law and international humanitarian law. The panel of judges believes that the punishment must be of this kind as to clearly show that war crimes, particularly those committed by senior officials in the structure of authority, are condemned by the civilised and democratic society, she said. The sentence contains not only the punishment of the defendant, but also an element of the so-called general prevention which must clearly show that such conduct was impermissible and punishable, Ms. Jerinic Musnjak said. (hina) ms

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