ZAGREB, Nov 9 (Hina) - A Bosnian Croat military policeman indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), who surrendered to Croatian police on Friday, will most probably travel to The Hague early or
in the middle of next week, Ljubicic's defence attorney, Tomislav Jonjic, said. "Ljubicic is ready to travel to The Hague as soon as the Zagreb County Court passes a decision on the request of the ICTY to extradite Ljubicic," Jonjic told Hina. The attorney said his client had informed him over the phone around 10 o'clock Friday morning that he would surrender and enter Croatia from Slovenia at the border crossing at Bregana. After he surrendered, Ljubicic was interviewed by Zagreb County Court investigating judge Zdenko Konjic, but stood mute. Konjic told Hina Ljubicic was taken to the district detention centre Remetinec, because the Zadar County Court had previously set a month-long de
ZAGREB, Nov 9 (Hina) - A Bosnian Croat military policeman indicted
by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
(ICTY), who surrendered to Croatian police on Friday, will most
probably travel to The Hague early or in the middle of next week,
Ljubicic's defence attorney, Tomislav Jonjic, said.
"Ljubicic is ready to travel to The Hague as soon as the Zagreb
County Court passes a decision on the request of the ICTY to
extradite Ljubicic," Jonjic told Hina.
The attorney said his client had informed him over the phone around
10 o'clock Friday morning that he would surrender and enter Croatia
from Slovenia at the border crossing at Bregana.
After he surrendered, Ljubicic was interviewed by Zagreb County
Court investigating judge Zdenko Konjic, but stood mute.
Konjic told Hina Ljubicic was taken to the district detention
centre Remetinec, because the Zadar County Court had previously set
a month-long detention to the Hague indictee.
The Zadar County Court started an investigation into Ljubicic,
Tomislav Vlajic, Ante Sliskovic and Vlado Cosic, suspected of
committing war crimes in the central Bosnian village of Ahmici
after it was discovered they were living in the central Adriatic
city of Zadar under false identities.
The Zadar court issued a domestic arrest warrant for Ljubicic in
September last year, and an international one via Interpol but he
went into hiding and his whereabouts had been unknown until now.
In the meantime, the investigation has been transferred to the
Zagreb County Court.
The ICTY charged Ljubicic with crimes against humanity for his
alleged role in 1992-93 atrocities against Muslims in central
Bosnia, where he commanded a military police battalion.
According to the indictment, the worst crime is a brutal raid by
Bosnian Croat militia on the Muslim village of Ahmici in April
1993.
More than 100 civilians, including women and children, were killed
there and their houses demolished, spearheading a wider Muslim-
Croat conflict.
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