THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Nov 26 (Hina) - Bosnian Serb indictee Miroslav Deronjic told judges in the trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic before the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Wednesday that the Bosnian Serb
leadership ordered in July 1995 that all Muslim prisoners from the eastern Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica be killed.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Nov 26 (Hina) - Bosnian Serb indictee Miroslav
Deronjic told judges in the trial of former Yugoslav president
Slobodan Milosevic before the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague on
Wednesday that the Bosnian Serb leadership ordered in July 1995
that all Muslim prisoners from the eastern Bosnian enclave of
Srebrenica be killed. #L#
Deronjic reached a plea agreement with the tribunal prosecutors in
September and pleaded guilty to the persecution of Muslims during
the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992.
Deronjic, who at the time was president of the so-called Serb Crisis
Staff in the eastern town of Bratunac, admitted ordering an attack
on the village of Glogova in May 1992, when Serb forces killed 65
Muslim civilians and expelled the rest. The village was burned in
the attack.
The prosecution demanded ten years' imprisonment for Deronjic,
while the defence recommended not more than six years.
In a written statement which the prosecution introduced into
evidence against Milosevic, Deronjic said that Republika Srpska
president Radovan Karadzic ordered in 1995 that all Bosniaks in
Srebrenica be killed.
During the cross-examination, Milosevic, who was president of
Serbia in 1995, insisted that Serbia had nothing to do with the
atrocities committed in Srebrenica.
Milosevic is charged with genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina,
including the Srebrenica massacre, and with crimes against
humanity in Croatia and Kosovo.
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