THE HAGUE, Oct 10 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is to be arraigned for war crimes in Croatia before the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague on Oct. 29, tribunal spokesman Jim Landale told Hina over the
telephone on Wednesday. The 32-count indictment, which was signed by Portuguese Judge Almiro Rodrigues, charges Milosevic with crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva conventions and violations of the laws or customs of war committed during 1991-2. Milosevic, who at the time was president of Serbia, is held accountable on both command and individual responsibility for crimes committed during the persecution of the Croat and other non-Serb population on approximately one third of Croatian state territory. The Hague tribunal's indictment says Milosevic exerted a firm control of the Serb members of ex-Yugoslavia's federal presidency, and thereby of the former
THE HAGUE, Oct 10 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic is to be arraigned for war crimes in Croatia before the UN
war crimes tribunal at The Hague on Oct. 29, tribunal spokesman Jim
Landale told Hina over the telephone on Wednesday.
The 32-count indictment, which was signed by Portuguese Judge
Almiro Rodrigues, charges Milosevic with crimes against humanity,
grave breaches of the Geneva conventions and violations of the laws
or customs of war committed during 1991-2.
Milosevic, who at the time was president of Serbia, is held
accountable on both command and individual responsibility for
crimes committed during the persecution of the Croat and other non-
Serb population on approximately one third of Croatian state
territory.
The Hague tribunal's indictment says Milosevic exerted a firm
control of the Serb members of ex-Yugoslavia's federal presidency,
and thereby of the former federal army JNA. Besides the JNA, members
of Serbia's Interior Ministry, state security service and
volunteer units also took part in the crimes in Croatia, the
indictment says.
The prosecutor holds Milosevic responsible for the persecution of
170,000 Croats and members of other minorities from Serb-occupied
areas, the extermination or killing of hundreds of Croats and other
non-Serbs, the imprisonment of thousands of civilians.
Besides Milosevic, the indictment mentions that Borisav Jovic,
Veljko Kadijevic, Blagoje Adzic, Milan Babic, Milan Martic, Goran
Hadzic, Vojislav Seselj, and Momir Bulatovic had also taken part in
said crimes.
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