ICTY CONFIRMS DETENTION OF DAMIR DOSEN

ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, Oct 25 (Hina) - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday confirmed the detention by the Stabilisation Force of Damir Dosen, charged with seven counts of crimes against humanity and violations of laws or customs of war. The ICTY statement read that Dosen was charged on basis of individual criminal responsibility and superior criminal responsibility for his alleged role as a shift commander at the Karaterm detention camp in the north-western Bosnia-Hercegovina between May and August 1992. The indictment against Dosen, which includes seven items, reads that interrogations in the Karaterm concentration camp were conducted on daily basis, severe beatings, torture, killings, sexual assault, and other forms of physical and mental abuse were commonplace. "The camp guards and others who came to the camps used all types of weapons and instruments to beat and otherwise physically abuse the detainees...At a minimum, hundreds of detainees, whose identities are known and unknown, did not survive", read the indictment. The date of Dosen's initial appearance before the ICTY will be set in due course. (hina) it