BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4793

HR-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4793 HINA Zagreb 4 November 2002RETRIAL OF BOSNIAN CROAT GENERAL POSSIBLE?ZAGREB, Nov 4 (Hina) - The Appeals Chamber of the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague has convened a session for Nov. 21 to deliberate if new evidence submitted by the defence of Bosnian Croat General Tihomir Blaskic justified a retrial. The Appeals Chamber made a decision to that effect on Oct. 31, the tribunal's Zagreb office said upon receiving the decision on Monday. The Appeals Chamber concluded that it was not willing to make a ruling of not guilty without previously reviewing the entire case. It would be more appropriate to re-examine the new evidence in the Blaskic case before a court of first instance, the decision read. Blaskic, a former commander of the Central Bosnia Operations Zone, was sentenced by a court of first instance in March 2000 to 45 years in prison on command responsibility for war crimes committed in central Bosnia, including the Ap