WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Hina) - American dailies on Monday marked the surrender of a former Yugoslav General Pavle Strugar to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) before which he will answer for the war
crimes against Dubrovnik civilians. The dailies cite that the indictment against Strugar contains evidence for several criminal acts such as murder, the intentional demolishing of civil targets and looting. The dailies recalled that during the siege and merciless three-month shelling of Dubrovnik in 1991, nearly 70 percent of the town's historic centre, which is considered a world historic monument, was demolished. American dailies also noted that Strugar was commanding officer to nearly 35,000 soldiers who besieged the city in which at least 43 civilians were killed during the shelling. Besides Strugar, the indicted are former army commanders Miodrag Jokic, Milan Zec and Vlad
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Hina) - American dailies on Monday marked the
surrender of a former Yugoslav General Pavle Strugar to the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
before which he will answer for the war crimes against Dubrovnik
civilians.
The dailies cite that the indictment against Strugar contains
evidence for several criminal acts such as murder, the intentional
demolishing of civil targets and looting.
The dailies recalled that during the siege and merciless three-
month shelling of Dubrovnik in 1991, nearly 70 percent of the town's
historic centre, which is considered a world historic monument, was
demolished.
American dailies also noted that Strugar was commanding officer to
nearly 35,000 soldiers who besieged the city in which at least 43
civilians were killed during the shelling.
Besides Strugar, the indicted are former army commanders Miodrag
Jokic, Milan Zec and Vladimir Kovacevic, about whom the American
dailies write are hiding in Serbia.
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