THE HAGUE, Apr 7 (Hina) - The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague on Wednesday announced a stronger investigating team probing into crimes committed in the south Yugoslav province of Kosovo. Reports
from the field speak about mass killings, people used as human shields, systematic rapes, looted and destroyed villages, deportations, withdrawal of identification documents, and activities making the local population flee their homes. The Hague tribunal's deputy chief prosecutor, Graham Blewitt, told reporters all those alleged crimes fall under the tribunal's jurisdiction. Blewitt said the governments of the United States and Great Britain, and NATO were requested to submit to the tribunal evidence on the crimes they claim to possess. The deputy chief prosecutor said there were no pressures on The Hague tribunal to indict Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
THE HAGUE, Apr 7 (Hina) - The International Criminal Tribunal for
the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague on Wednesday announced a
stronger investigating team probing into crimes committed in the
south Yugoslav province of Kosovo.
Reports from the field speak about mass killings, people used as
human shields, systematic rapes, looted and destroyed villages,
deportations, withdrawal of identification documents, and
activities making the local population flee their homes.
The Hague tribunal's deputy chief prosecutor, Graham Blewitt, told
reporters all those alleged crimes fall under the tribunal's
jurisdiction.
Blewitt said the governments of the United States and Great
Britain, and NATO were requested to submit to the tribunal evidence
on the crimes they claim to possess.
The deputy chief prosecutor said there were no pressures on The
Hague tribunal to indict Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for
crimes committed in Kosovo.
Blewitt did say there were discussions on possibilities, but added
it would be wrong to say they were a form of pressure or even a
suggestion to the prosecutor's office.
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