THE HAGUE, July 28 (Hina) - The International War Crimes Tribunal, or the ICTY,+
will
hold a hearing on September 8 to consider the oral submissions by the Defence +
and
the Prosecution in the case of a Croatian Serb, Slavko Dokmanovic, regarding +
the
Defence's requests for discovery of evidence from the indictment and for +
release of
Dokmanovic from custody.
According to Monday's statement of the Tribunal, the Prosecution stated that +
it
had no objection to providing the Defence with materials that are in the public+
domain.
With regard to the Defence's allegation that the arrest of Dokmanovic was
"contrary to the empowerment of the UNTAES forces", the Prosecution stated that+
the
Defence's allegation is without merit as UNTAES was acting pursuant to an +
arrest
warrant signed by a Judge of the Tribunal.
The Prosecution added that:" With such an order in hand, UNTAES would have
been in contravention of a court order had they failed to take the accused into
custody."
With regard to the Defence's claim that Dokmanovic's arrested was alleged
kidnap, the Prosecution replied that the claim was unfounded because the +
measures
taken for the arrest of Dokmanovic were "clearly justified, especially in light+
of the fact
that Dokmanovic was in possession of a loaded handgun (at the moment of the +
arrest."
The Prosecution added that under those circumstances, what happened to
Dokmanovic "was not kidnapping, it was simply an arrest - an arrest that was +
carried
out legally and without incident," according to Monday's ICTY statement,
Slavko Dokmanovic, was arrested in eastern Slavonia on June 27 this year and
on the same day taken into custody by the ICTY in The Hague.
He was the mayor of the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar in November 1991
when JNA and Serb paramilitaries removed from the Vukovar hospital +
approximately
260 men who were later transported to a site close to Ovcara where they were +
shot
and killed.
Dokmanovic was indicted on March 26, 1996, in an amendment to the "Vukovar"
indictment previously issued against Mile Mrksic, Miroslav Radic and Veselin
Sljivancanin.
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