BELGRADE, March 12 (Hina) - Blagoje Simic, the first Yugoslav citizen to voluntarily surrender to UN's war crimes tribunal in The Hague, departed Belgrade on Monday morning accompanied by his attorney Igor Pantelic. During the early
1990s war in Bosnia, Simic was the mayor of Bosanski Samac, a town in northern Bosnia. His attorney reminded reporters at Belgrade's Surcin airport the Hague tribunal indicted his client in 1995 for breaches of the international humanitarian law. "This is an absolutely voluntary act," Simic said at the airport prior to departure. "I am absolutely convinced of my innocence and I will certainly prove it," he said. The indictment charges Simic and several others of planning and executing ethnic cleansing in Bosanski Samac after Serb units took control over the town in April 1992.(hina) ha
BELGRADE, March 12 (Hina) - Blagoje Simic, the first Yugoslav
citizen to voluntarily surrender to UN's war crimes tribunal in The
Hague, departed Belgrade on Monday morning accompanied by his
attorney Igor Pantelic.
During the early 1990s war in Bosnia, Simic was the mayor of
Bosanski Samac, a town in northern Bosnia.
His attorney reminded reporters at Belgrade's Surcin airport the
Hague tribunal indicted his client in 1995 for breaches of the
international humanitarian law.
"This is an absolutely voluntary act," Simic said at the airport
prior to departure. "I am absolutely convinced of my innocence and I
will certainly prove it," he said.
The indictment charges Simic and several others of planning and
executing ethnic cleansing in Bosanski Samac after Serb units took
control over the town in April 1992.
(hina) ha