ZAGREB, April 1 (Hina) - General Tihomir Blaskic left for The Hague
on Monday afternoon to appear voluntarily before the International
Criminal Tribunal for war crimes committed in the area of former
Yugoslavia.
Blaskic, accompanied by his attorneys Zvonimir Hodak and Nela
Pedisic, told reporters that he would plead not guilty.
On November 2 last year, the tribunal indicted Blaskic and
another five Bosnian Croats suspected of prosecuting the Bosnian
Moslem population on political, racial and religious grounds.
Blaskic was charged with committing crimes against humanity
and grave breaches of the Geneva conventions and war law.
The indictment was based on the fact that Blaskic had been
commander of the Bosnian Croat (HVO) forces when the crimes against
the Moslem population in the Lasva river valley of central Bosnia
had been committed between May 1992 and May 1993.
Upon arrival in The Hague, Blaskic would be detained in jail
until Tuesday when the first hearing was scheduled. After that he
was expected to be placed under house arrest.
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