ZAGREB, Dec 28 (Hina) - The Croatian Justice Ministry on Tuesday reported that a doctors' team taking care of the health of Mladen Naletilic Tuta said that an operation on Naletilic's critical narrowing of the aorta had been
postponed. The operation was to take place in December 1999, but due to a viral infection it is rescheduled for January 2000. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indicted Naletilic last year, for crimes against humanity, the violatio of the Geneva Convention, war laws and customs which he committed as the commander of a so-called convicts battalion in areas under the supervision of the Croatian Council of Defence in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1993. Given that the Croatian Supreme Court confirmed the decision of the Zagreb County Court on Naletilic's extradition to the ICTY, Croatian Justice Minister Zvonimir postponed the extradition of Naletilic due to the deterioration of
ZAGREB, Dec 28 (Hina) - The Croatian Justice Ministry on Tuesday
reported that a doctors' team taking care of the health of Mladen
Naletilic Tuta said that an operation on Naletilic's critical
narrowing of the aorta had been postponed.
The operation was to take place in December 1999, but due to a viral
infection it is rescheduled for January 2000.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) indicted Naletilic last year, for crimes against humanity,
the violatio of the Geneva Convention, war laws and customs which he
committed as the commander of a so-called convicts battalion in
areas under the supervision of the Croatian Council of Defence in
Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1993.
Given that the Croatian Supreme Court confirmed the decision of the
Zagreb County Court on Naletilic's extradition to the ICTY,
Croatian Justice Minister Zvonimir postponed the extradition of
Naletilic due to the deterioration of his health condition.
In the meantime, a heart operation improved Naletilic's coronary
circulation. After the visit of an ICTY doctor's team in early
November, the ICTY said that Naletilic could not be transported to
The Hague due to his poor health condition.
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