ZAGREB, Nov 20 (Hina) - Pasko Ljubicic (aged 35) will leave Croatia on Wednesday aboard a regular Croatia Airlines flight for Amsterdam, from where he will be transported to the detention centre of the international war crimes
tribunal in The Hague, which has indicted him for war crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war. "The Government's Office for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal confirmed today that Ljubicic would leave for The Hague at 9 am tomorrow," defence attorney Tomislav Jonjic said. Ljubicic has been in detention at Zagreb's County Prison at Remetinec since November 9, when he surrendered to the Croatian police after hiding for more than a year. Ljubicic will be escorted by his attorney and members of the Zagreb Interpol office. He will be taken over by representatives of the Hague tribunal at the Amsterdam airport and then transferred to the Scheveningen detention cen
ZAGREB, Nov 20 (Hina) - Pasko Ljubicic (aged 35) will leave Croatia
on Wednesday aboard a regular Croatia Airlines flight for
Amsterdam, from where he will be transported to the detention
centre of the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, which
has indicted him for war crimes against humanity and violations of
the laws or customs of war.
"The Government's Office for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal
confirmed today that Ljubicic would leave for The Hague at 9 am
tomorrow," defence attorney Tomislav Jonjic said.
Ljubicic has been in detention at Zagreb's County Prison at
Remetinec since November 9, when he surrendered to the Croatian
police after hiding for more than a year.
Ljubicic will be escorted by his attorney and members of the Zagreb
Interpol office. He will be taken over by representatives of the
Hague tribunal at the Amsterdam airport and then transferred to the
Scheveningen detention centre.
It is still not known when Ljubicic will make his initial appearance
before the tribunal, when he should enter his plea.
The decision on Ljubicic's hand-over was made last Friday by the
Zagreb County Court.
Ljubicic and his attorneys waived the right to appeal thus making
the court decision final.
In an 11-count indictment, issued in late October this year, the
tribunal charges Ljubicic with having participated, as the
commander of the First Platoon of a Croat Defence Council (HVO)
military police battalion, in attacks on Muslim villages in the
central Bosnian municipalities of Vitez and Busovaca between June
1992 and July 1993. He is also charged with crimes committed on
October 16, 1993, against civilians in the village of Ahmici, where
more than 100 local residents were killed and a large number of
houses destroyed.
Ljubicic is charged with crimes against humanity, killing and other
inhumane treatment, and the violation of the laws or customs of war
by attacking civilians, wanton and extensive destruction, the
destruction of religious and education facilities, and looting.
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