BELGRADE, Dec 8 (Hina)- President of the Belgrade Military Court +Radomir Gojkovic on Tuesday confirmed that three former JNA +officers that have been indicted by the International Tribunal for +the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), have been
summoned to appear on 17 +December 1998 in The Hague for a hearing on war crimes perpetrated +in Vukovar in 1991. + Gojkovic told the Beta news agency that the former JNA officers, +Mile Mrksic, Veselin Sljivancanin and Miroslav Radic had been +summoned as witnesses and not as the accused in the process that had +been instigated against "unidentified perpetrators of criminal +acts". + President of the Military Court said he expected the three would +heed the summons. He added that the there would not be publicly +interrogated and that the Tribunal clearly defined who could be +present at the hearing.+ In 1995 ICTY indicted the three former JNA officers with the murder +of
BELGRADE, Dec 8 (Hina)- President of the Belgrade Military Court
Radomir Gojkovic on Tuesday confirmed that three former JNA
officers that have been indicted by the International Tribunal for
the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), have been summoned to appear on 17
December 1998 in The Hague for a hearing on war crimes perpetrated
in Vukovar in 1991.
Gojkovic told the Beta news agency that the former JNA officers,
Mile Mrksic, Veselin Sljivancanin and Miroslav Radic had been
summoned as witnesses and not as the accused in the process that had
been instigated against "unidentified perpetrators of criminal
acts".
President of the Military Court said he expected the three would
heed the summons. He added that the there would not be publicly
interrogated and that the Tribunal clearly defined who could be
present at the hearing.
In 1995 ICTY indicted the three former JNA officers with the murder
of 260 persons on 20 November 1991 at the Ovcara farm in Vukovar.
Yugoslav authorities are refusing to arrest the indictees and
extradite them to Tribunal, in spite of arrest warrants, calls for
voluntary hand-over and statements by the UN Security Council, the
main prosecutor Louis Arbor said on Monday.
ICTY is planning to call on the court in Belgrade to put the case
under its authority, as has been done in the case of Drazen
Erdemovic, Arbour announced.
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