STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Is there no end to this ghoulish obsession? This is what the Nuremberg Tribunal would have looked like if the Axis had won World War II....Perhaps they have.] July 18, 2001 Tribunal Reveals Genocide Charges by ANTHONY DEUTSCH Associated Press Writer THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- War crimes prosecutors revealed a secret indictment Wednesday against a former Bosnian Serb security chief charged with the genocide of Muslims and Croats during the Bosnian war. Stojan Zupljanin, the former head of Serbian security services and special adviser to wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadic, has been charged with 12 counts of genocide, torture, murder, persecution, extermination and deportation for atrocities in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, according to his indictment. Zupljanin, believed by tribunal officials to be near Banja Luka, was secretly indicted in 1999 along with Gen. Momir Talic and Radoslav Brdjanin, both of whom were arrested last year and are awaiting trial in the Netherlands, where the court is based. Talic, a Bosnian Serb military chief, and Brdjanin, a former deputy prime minister, pleaded innocent to allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity in January 2000. Zupljanin, 49, has been charged with every crime in the tribunal's statute. Prosecutors allege that Serb forces under his command unleashed a campaign of terror to rid Serb-dominated regions of non-Serbs and create a ''greater'' Serbia. War crimes prosecutors requested that the indictment be made public to pressure Bosnian Serb authorities and the NATO-led international Stabilization Force in Bosnia, known as SFOR, to detain him and transfer him to the court. Prosecutors allege that as a leading official -- at one point holding the position of internal affairs minister in the Serb-held Croatian territory of Krajina -- Zupljanin should have prevented the atrocities or punish the culprits who committed them. Forces under Zupljanin's command attacked Muslim and Croat villages throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, murdered the inhabitants and deported others to concentration camps where they were tortured, sexually assaulted and starved, the indictment says. Zupljanin is the 13th official to be openly indicted for genocide by the U.N. court, established by the Security Council in 1993 to prosecute the individuals responsible for atrocities during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. There has not yet been a genocide conviction. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
