THE HAGUE, 24 June (Hina) - The trial of General Tihomir Blaskic before the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has begun on Tuesday.
THE HAGUE, 24 June (Hina) - The trial of General Tihomir Blaskic before
the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has
begun on Tuesday. #L#
The trial, which is conducted before a three-member ICTY trial
chamber, including the chairman Judge Claude Jorda, Fuad Abdel-Moneim
Riad and Mohamed Shahabuddeen, could last about a year.
The prosecution is led by Mark Harmon, Gregory Kehoe and Andrew
Cayley and the defence by Anto Nobilo and Russell Hayman.
General Blaskic turned himself in on 1 April 1996 in The Hague and
waited for the trial for almost 15 months.
Representatives of the prosecution and defence have already
exchanged the evidence they are to present before the Tribunal.
The defence received statements of some 300 witnesses and some
1,000 documents. Blaskic's defence gathered statements of 170 witnesses
and some 10,000 various documents.
In November 1995, The Hague court indicted General Blaskic for
crimes against humanity, serious violations of the Geneva Conventions
and the law of war during the Croat-Muslim conflict in the Lasva river
valley, central Bosnia, where Blaskic was a Croatian Defence Council
(HVO) commander.
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