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UN'S EX-YUGOSLAVIA TRIBUNAL SAYS FOUR REMAINING FUGITIVES MUST BE
ARRESTED: 08/10/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 08 October 2007 -
Four fugitives remain at large from the United
Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and the failure to arrest
them “continues to represent an affront to justice,” the court says today.
In its
fourteenth annual report to the General Assembly and the Security Council, the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) states that by
31 July this year it had finished proceedings against 106 accused out of the 161
people who have been charged with crimes related to the Balkan wars of the
1990s.
The
proceedings of another 51 people are either at the pre-trial, trial, pre-appeal
or appeal phase.
ICTY
said its three trial chambers are operating at full capacity, running seven
trials simultaneously since January, while the appeals chamber has also
expedited its workload.
Two
arrests have also been made since August 2006: those of Zdravko Tolimir, a
former Bosnian Serb army officer and top aide to General Ratko Mladić, and
Vlastimir Đorđević, a senior Serbian police officer accused of
participating in the campaign against Kosovo Albanians in 1999.
But the
report noted that four fugitives remain: Mr. Mladić, Radovan Karadžić,
Goran Hadžić and Stojan Župljanin.
Mr.
Karadžić, 62, the former Bosnian Serb president, and Mr. Mladić, 65,
the former military chief, each face numerous charges, including genocide,
extermination, murder, persecutions, deportation, taking of hostages and
inflicting terror on civilians.
Mr. Hadžić,
49, is charged with murder, persecutions, torture, cruel treatment and other war
crimes and crimes against humanity related to his role as president of a
self-proclaimed breakaway state of rebel Serbs in southern Croatia during the
early 1990s.
Mr. Župljanin,
56, has been indicted on many counts, including murder, torture, forcible
transfers and the wanton destruction of towns and villages. He served in the
senior leadership in the Autonomous Region of Krajina, part of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, an area that became notorious for its treatment of non-Serbs.
The
report says the Prosecutor’s Office has concentrated its efforts on securing
the arrest of the four men, and the failure to achieve those arrests “remains
of grave concern with respect to the proper administration of justice.”
But it
also notes that the Prosecutor’s Office has been able to step up its
cooperation with the governments of the countries in the region, and has
observed an improvement in support from the Republika Srpska, which is part of
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Under
the Tribunal’s completion strategy, ICTY is supposed to complete all trials at
first instance by the end of 2008, and all of its work, including appeals, by
2010.
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