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UN:
FORMER BOSNIAN SERB ARMY OFFICER GRANTED TEMPORARY LEAVE BY UN TRIBUNAL:
11/12/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 11 December 2007 -- A
former senior officer in the Bosnian Serb army facing trial at the United
Nations war crimes tribunal set up to deal with the worst crimes of the Balkan
wars of the 1990s has been granted temporary release from jail so he can attend
a memorial service for his father.
The
trial chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY),
which sits in The Hague, ordered today that Vinko Pandurević be released
under certain terms and conditions, including that he return to the Tribunal’s
custody on 8 January next year.
Mr.
Pandurević – who served as a lieutenant colonel in the Bosnian Serb armed
forces (VRS) – and six others are charged with crimes committed against
Bosnian Muslims in the Srebrenica and Žepa enclaves in mid-1995. More than
7,000 Muslim men and boys were murdered in Srebrenica after Bosnian Serb forces
overran what was supposed to be a UN-protected enclave, or safe haven, and the
ICTY has found previously that the events there constituted genocide.
The
provisional release of Mr. Pandurević follows the ICTY’s decisions over
the past month to temporarily release four other men, who are also facing trial
at the Tribunal, during its winter recess.
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