ICTY CONFIRMS IDENTITY OF BOSNIAN SERB DEATH CAMP GUARD

THE HAGUE, March 22 (Hina) - The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) issued a statement on Friday confirming the identity of a former guard at the Bosnian Serb-run Keraterm camp, Goran Lajic, who had been arrested by German police near Nuremberg on Monday. Lajic is one of the thirteen persons named in the indictment "Sikirica and others" issued by the Tribunal on 21 July 1995 in relation to an investigation into the events of the Keraterm camp. Lajic is accused of perpetrating grave breachs of the laws and customs of war and crimes against humanity. "He is charged with individual criminal responsibility for the following acts: "On an evening in mid-July 1992, Goran Lajic was one of a group of Keraterm guards who severly beat a group of detainees at the Camp. (...) Several men died as a result of the assaults. "Around the latter part of June 1992, Lajic severly beat Emsud Bahonjic (and other detainees at Keraterm), causing his death," the statement said. The ICTY was making necessary provisions for the transfer of the accused from Germany to The Hague. (hina) vm 221213 MET mar 96