BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: THE BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT ARREST TWO MOSLEMS INDICTED BY UN WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FOR KILLING SERBS AT A PRISON CAMP

Record ID: 647438

  • Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: THE BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT ARREST TWO MOSLEMS INDICTED BY UN WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FOR KILLING SERBS AT A PRISON CAMP
  • Date: 3rd May 1996
  • Summary: KONJIC, CELEBICI AND SARAJEVO, BOSNIA (MAY 3, 1996) (RTV (A) - ACCESS ALL) KONJIC 1. SV KONJIC ROAD SIGN/ LV OF TOWN (2 SHOTS) 0.08 2. SVS/MCUS PEOPLE ON STREETS (4 SHOTS) 0.24 3. MCU RESIDENT SAYING IF THE TWO MEN (INDICTED BOSNIAN MOSLEMS HAZIM DELIC AND ESAD LANDZO) ARE GUILTY THEY MUST GO TO PRISON (SERBO-CROAT) 0.30 4. MCU 2ND RESIDENT SAYING BOSNIAN MOSLEMS ARE NOT GUILTY (SERBO-CROAT) 0.42 5. MCU 3RD RESIDENT SAYING IT MUST BE PROVED THAT THE MEN ARE GUILTY (SERBO-CROAT) 0.50 CELEBICI 6. SVS/LVS EXTERIOR OF PRISON CAMP WHERE TWO MEN ARE ACCUSED OF ATROCITIES AGAINST SERBS (6 SHOTS) 1.16 SARAJEVO 7. SV/CU EXTERIOR PRISON WHERE ACCUSED ARE HELD (2 SHOTS) 1.21 8. SVS INTERIORS PRISON/ CELLS (5 SHOTS) 1.50 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 18th May 1996 13:00
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  • Location: CELEBICI, KONJIC AND SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
  • Reuters ID: LVAAU23RBKTVQFB60A7XJJ91ABZI
  • Story Text: INTRO: For the first time, the Sarajevo government arrests Bosnian Moslem indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal.

    ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Bosnian government arrested two Moslems indicted by the United Nations (U.N.) war crimes tribunal for killing Serbs at a prison camp in 1992, the tribunal said on Thursday (May 2, 1996).

    It is the first time that any of the former Yugoslav republics has exercised an arrest warrant issued by the tribunal.

    Hazim Delic and Esad Landzo were indicted for crimes allegedly committed at the Celebici prison camp near the central Bosnian town of Konjic. Bosnia was expected to hand them over to the tribunal soon.

    The March 22 indictment against Delic, Landzo and two other suspects, Zejnil Delalic and Zdravko Mucic, was the tribunal's first for crimes by Moslems against Serb victims.

    Residents of Konjic apeared to be divided on the leadership's decision to hand them over.

    Some said justice must be done whilst others claimed Delic and Landzo were not guilty.

    Delic, a deputy to Mucic, has been charged with four murders and Landzo, a camp guard, with five murders.

    Delic and Landzo are being held in Sarajevo's central prison pending their extradition to stand trial in the Hague.


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