THE HAGUE, Sept 12 (Hina) - Bosnian Serbs Dusko Sikirica and Damir Dosen pleaded guilty to war crime charges before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday. The two Bosnian Serbs pleaded
guilty to crimes committed against Moslems and Croats in the Keraterm concentration camp in northern Bosnia-Herzegovina, ICTY spokesman Jim Landale said. Sikirica and Dosen, who were commanders at the camp, pleaded guilty, following the example of Dragan Kolundzija, the third indictee in this case, who decided to enter a plea of guilty last week. The Prosecution decided to accept Sikirica and Dosen's pleas and drop all other charges, Landale said. The Prosecution will demand that Sikirica be sentenced to 10-17 and Dosen to 5-7 years in prison. The Prosecution demanded that Kolundzija, who was also a commander at the camp, be sentenced to three to five years in prison. The ICTY trial chamber wil
THE HAGUE, Sept 12 (Hina) - Bosnian Serbs Dusko Sikirica and Damir
Dosen pleaded guilty to war crime charges before the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday.
The two Bosnian Serbs pleaded guilty to crimes committed against
Moslems and Croats in the Keraterm concentration camp in northern
Bosnia-Herzegovina, ICTY spokesman Jim Landale said.
Sikirica and Dosen, who were commanders at the camp, pleaded
guilty, following the example of Dragan Kolundzija, the third
indictee in this case, who decided to enter a plea of guilty last
week.
The Prosecution decided to accept Sikirica and Dosen's pleas and
drop all other charges, Landale said.
The Prosecution will demand that Sikirica be sentenced to 10-17 and
Dosen to 5-7 years in prison. The Prosecution demanded that
Kolundzija, who was also a commander at the camp, be sentenced to
three to five years in prison.
The ICTY trial chamber will decide whether to accept the pleas of
guilty next week. It is not obliged to act in line with the
Prosecution's recommendations regarding the duration of the
sentences for all three indictees.
The trial against the three Bosnian Serbs, indicted for crimes
against thousands of detained Moslems and Croats at the Karaterm
camp in 1992, started in March.
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