THE HAGUE, July 2 (Hina) - A spokesperson for the Hague tribunal's prosecutor's office once again denied on Monday that Milan Martic, accused of shelling Zagreb in 1995, or anybody from the so-called Vukovar Three was in the hands of
UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). They are probably somewhere in Serbia, Florence Hartmann told reporters when asked if the ICTY prosecutor's office knew the whereabouts of people indicted for crimes committed on Croatian territory. She added the prosecutor's office did not know their whereabouts and that it would inform the public at once in case they were arrested and transferred to The Hague. Media in Belgrade and Banja Luka have recently been saying that Martic, Mile Mrksic and Dusan Knezevic, all indicted by the ICTY, have been arrested in the northern Yugoslav province of Vojvodina. Serbia's Interior Ministry issued a denial on Sunday evenin
THE HAGUE, July 2 (Hina) - A spokesperson for the Hague tribunal's
prosecutor's office once again denied on Monday that Milan Martic,
accused of shelling Zagreb in 1995, or anybody from the so-called
Vukovar Three was in the hands of UN's International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
They are probably somewhere in Serbia, Florence Hartmann told
reporters when asked if the ICTY prosecutor's office knew the
whereabouts of people indicted for crimes committed on Croatian
territory. She added the prosecutor's office did not know their
whereabouts and that it would inform the public at once in case they
were arrested and transferred to The Hague.
Media in Belgrade and Banja Luka have recently been saying that
Martic, Mile Mrksic and Dusan Knezevic, all indicted by the ICTY,
have been arrested in the northern Yugoslav province of Vojvodina.
Serbia's Interior Ministry issued a denial on Sunday evening.
For the past three days, media in the Yugoslav capital and Banja
Luka's Nezavisne novine have said the Martic, Mrksic, Knezevic, as
well as Miroslav Radic have been arrested and detained in a military
base near the north-eastern Bosnian town of Tuzla.
Besides stating that they were arrested in Vojvodina, the media
have said they were transferred to Tuzla from Belgrade aboard a
helicopter which transported Slobodan Milosevic, the former
Yugoslav president, before his extradition to the ICTY last week.
Mrksic and Radic are, alongside Veselin Sljivancanin, the Vukovar
Three who have been indicted for war crimes against Croatian
civilians and soldiers in the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar in
1991. Knezevic has been indicted for crimes against Muslims in
Keraterm, a concentration camp near the north-western Bosnian town
of Prijedor.
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