BELGRADE, June 24 (Hina) - Yugoslav authorities know exactly how many war crimes indictees there are on Serbian territory, spokesman for the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Florence Hartmann told
Belgrade's news agency Beta today. She said the number of indictees was 12, but the number varies because, she said, they move around. A total of 38 indictees are still free. Of this number, 13 indictments are sealed. Their names, Hartmann said, are known to the chief prosecutor and a restricted number of people and the prosecution in The Hague, but also the government and some international officials. Five former and current senior officials of Yugoslavia and Serbia indicted on May 24, 1999 for crimes against humanity over Kosovo Albanians are in Serbia. There are the current President of Serbia, Milan Milutinovic, former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, former Yugoslav vice-premie
BELGRADE, June 24 (Hina) - Yugoslav authorities know exactly how
many war crimes indictees there are on Serbian territory, spokesman
for the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia Florence Hartmann told Belgrade's news agency Beta
today. She said the number of indictees was 12, but the number
varies because, she said, they move around.
A total of 38 indictees are still free. Of this number, 13
indictments are sealed. Their names, Hartmann said, are known to
the chief prosecutor and a restricted number of people and the
prosecution in The Hague, but also the government and some
international officials.
Five former and current senior officials of Yugoslavia and Serbia
indicted on May 24, 1999 for crimes against humanity over Kosovo
Albanians are in Serbia.
There are the current President of Serbia, Milan Milutinovic,
former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, former Yugoslav
vice-premier Nikola Sainovic, former Yugoslav Army chief-of-staff
and subsequently defence minister General Dragoljub Ojdanic, and
former Serbian interior minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic.
Three former Yugoslav People's Army officers indicted for war
crimes in Croatia, General Mile Mrksic, Lieutenant Colonel Veselin
Sljivancanin and Captain Miroslav Radic are in Belgrade.
The "Vukovar three" have been indicted for the killing of 262
Croatian civilians near Vukovar in November 1991.
Milan and Sredoje Lukic, publicly accused of the ethnic cleansing
of Visegrad are residing in a suburb of Belgrade.
The Lukic cousins have been indicted of burning of more than 130
Bosnian Moslem civilians, mostly women, children and elderly
persons.
The ICTY prosecution believes that all persons on sealed indictmets
for crimes during the siege of Dubrovnik are in Serbia. It has still
not been made public how many people are indicted of the crimes.
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