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AP. 20 September 2002. U.N. Tribunal Charges Croatian Gen. THE HAGUE -- A retired Croatian Army general was charged by U.N. prosecutors with murdering and terrorizing Serb civilians in the former Yugoslavia. Gen. Janko Bobetko, 83, is the most senior Croat ever sought by the Hague tribunal, whose war crimes cases have overwhelmingly been against Serbs, including former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. In Friday's indictment, prosecutors claimed that Bobetko knew his troops were killing civilians and prisoners of war during a 1993 attack on a Serb-dominated area of Croatia known as the Medak Pocket. Bobetko failed to prevent or punish the crimes, despite being in a position of authority which enabled him to do so, the indictment asserted. He was charged with five counts of violations of the laws and customs of war and crimes against humanity for the "unlawful killing of at least 100 Serb civilians and or wounded soldiers," the indictment said. Bobetko, who was the Croat army's chief of staff in the early 1990s, told reporters in Zagreb Friday that he won't surrender alive. "I made a final decision: They can only take me dead from this house," he said from his home. The Croatian war erupted in 1991, when Serbs, backed by the Yugoslav army, took up arms to rebel against Croatia's decision to break with Yugoslavia. The fighting ended four years later when Croatia recaptured lands seized by the rebels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ProletarianNews http://www.utopia2000.org --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
