NETHERLANDS/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: THE WAR CRIMES TRIAL OF BOSNIAN SERB DUSAN TADIC RESUMES IN THE HAGUE

Record ID: 649444

  • Title: NETHERLANDS/BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: THE WAR CRIMES TRIAL OF BOSNIAN SERB DUSAN TADIC RESUMES IN THE HAGUE
  • Date: 10th September 1996
  • Summary: MAJACA CAMP, NEAR BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (FILE - AUGUST 28, 1994) (REUTERS) LV CAMP SURROUNDED BY BARBED WIRE/SV EMACIATED MAN SEATED ON FLOOR (2 SHOTS) 0.57 LV PEOPLE MILLING AROUND CAMP ENTRANCE SURROUNDED BY FENCES 1.02 O OMARSKA CAMP, BOSNIA (FILE - AUGUST 9, 1994) (REUTERS) LV/MCU OF PEOPLE IN CAMP SEATED ON FLOOR (3 SHOTS) 1.09
  • Embargoed: 25th September 1996 13:00
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  • Location: THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS/ NEAR BANJA LUKA AND OMARSKA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
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  • Country: Netherlands
  • Topics: Conflict,General,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAEYRYYEL8CV4H9D5L7UCB4BPDP
  • Story Text: The war crimes trial of Bosnian Serb Dusan "Dusko" Tadic has resumed and his defence lawyer is calling for most of the charges against him to be dropped because of inconsistent evidence against him. Tadic is charged with indiscrimanately killing, torturing and raping Moslems at a Serb run detention camp.
    Bosnian Serb Dusan "Dusko" Tadic, a former reserve policeman, denies allegations that he went through Serb-run detention camps in northwestern Bosnia in 1992, killing, raping and torturing Moslem prisoners at will.
    His trial at the United Nations (U.N.) war crimes tribunal in the Hague resumed on Tuesday (September 10) after a three week recess. There were 75 witnesses for the prosecution.
    Michail Wladimiroff, a leading Dutch criminal lawyer defending Tadic, told the court that the bulk of the charges against Tadic should be dropped because evidence was inconsistent and some witnesses were unreliable.
    Responding, Grant Niemann for the prosecution said the judges had enough evidence to continue with the trial whether or not some details of evidence had been unsatisfactory.
    Presiding judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald told both sides the three-judge panel would deliver its decision on the motion as soon as possible.
    Should the judges support the motion in full, Tadic would still face charges relating to persecution, beatings and the killing of various men in the villages of Jaskici and Sivici but some of the more gruesome charges, including one of forcing a prisoner to sexually mutilate another, would be dropped.
    Tadic, held at the tribunal's Hague detention centre, is one of seven warcrimes suspects in custody. So far the tribunal has indicted 75 people -- 54 Serbs, 18 Croats and three Moslems.
    Tadic was the first suspect to appear before the tribunal.
    He has been charged with taking part in the murder of 13 victims including 4 who died in the notorious Omarska concentration camp.
    Images of emaciated prisoners behind barbed wire fences at Omarska caused an international outcry when they were brought to our television screens in the summer of 1992.
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