ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, June 25 (Hina) - Ivica Rajic, a former commander of Bosnia's Croatian Defence Council (HVO) accused of war crimes by the Hague tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, will enter his plea on Friday, the U.N. court said on
Wednesday.
ZAGREB/THE HAGUE, June 25 (Hina) - Ivica Rajic, a former commander
of Bosnia's Croatian Defence Council (HVO) accused of war crimes by
the Hague tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, will enter his plea on
Friday, the U.N. court said on Wednesday. #L#
Rajic is accused of the October 1993 killing of at least 16 Muslims
in the Central Bosnia village of Stupni Do, where he was commander
of HVO's second operations group.
The county court in Zagreb okayed his extradition to the Hague
tribunal on April 30, a decision confirmed by the Supreme Court on
June 9 after it rejected an appeal by Rajic's attorneys.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
indicted Rajic in October 1995 but he succeeded in hiding until this
April, when he was arrested in Split.
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