Izetbegovic's friends
NOTA: in questa rassegna di amici di Izetbegovic compaiono ministri
pachistani, mujaheddin membri del GIA, torturatori del campo di
Celebici, e financo ministri antiserbi della DOS quali il signor
Ljiajic.
Ci scusiamo con Adriano Sofri per non aver potuto reperire materiale
recente sulla sua nota stima per il nazista Alija Izetbegovic.
1. Former Pakistani information minister: “We went to Bosnia ... and
supported their cause. Later we gave them arms for their jihad”.
Former Pakistani foreign Minister: "The Bosnian jihad was the greatest
fight in European history and Muslim leaders should follow the life of
Ali Izat Begovich".
2. Algeria, Egypt seek terror suspects' extradition from
Bosnia (AFP, 10/10/03)
3. SERBIA'S SOCIALISTS CALL FOR MINISTER LJIAJIC'S DISMISSAL OVER
IZETBEGOVIC OBITUARY
4. Yemeni imprisoned in Bosnia for al-Qaeda links returns
home (AFP, 5/11/03)
5. More on war crimes by Bosnian muslim secessionists
=== RELATED DOCUMENTS ===
JIHAD the Holy War - Lashva valley:
http://public.srce.hr/zatocenici/jihad.htm
Video fragments showing Alija Izetbegovic's links with Mujahedin units:
http://public.srce.hr/zatocenici/video_en.htm
NATO Chieftan Lord Roberston Hails Theocratic
Secessionist Izetbegovic As "Courageous Statesman"
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/co/Qbosnia-politics.RVBE_DOK.html
US State Department: Izetbegovic Instrumental In
Bosnia *Remaining* A Unified Multiethnic *Country*
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-
english&y=2003&m=October&x=20031020174940samohtj0.5099604&t=usinfo/wf-
latest.html
---
http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/047.shtml
Celebici
By Carl Savich
Introduction: War Crimes in Bosnia
The Celebici Camp
Bosnian Muslim and Croat Detention Camps
The Celebici Trial
Conclusion: A Political Trial?
http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/047.shtml
---
http://www.swans.com/library/art9/alekp028.html
It Was A Good Day To Die
by Aleksandra Priestfield
Swans - November 3, 2003
... A spokeswoman for the Hague arch-witch hunter Carla del Ponte has
made a statement to the effect that Mr. Izetbegovic was "under
investigation" for unspecified war crimes at the time of his death.
The investigation will, naturally, be "halted" now that the
investigatee is conveniently no longer with us...
http://www.swans.com/library/art9/alekp028.html
---
Fairy Tales Can Come True....Del Ponte Was
Investigating Izetbegovic
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=25171&style=headlines
=== 1 ===
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_25-10-2003_pg7_4
Daily Times (Pakistan)
‘Pakistan provided Bosnians with arms’
By Khurram Shahzad
ISLAMABAD: Muttihida Majlis-e-Amal Parliamentary Leader Qazi Hussain
Ahmed has demanded President Gen Pervez Musharaf fulfill within
Pakistan his call to the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) in
Malaysia for Muslim unity.
Mr Ahmed was talking to journalists after a seminar organised by the
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) in memory of the late Bosnian leader Ali Izet
Begovich on Friday.
He said President Musharraf had posed himself as the leader of the
whole Muslim world at the OIC summit and urged for unity and working
relationships, but he was not implementing it in Pakistan.
He should play his role to unite Pakistani nation first and then talk
about anything else.
“Musharraf should unite the Pakistani nation despite his role in
destroying the unity of political parties and other public groups
within the country if he advocates the unity of the whole Muslim
world”, Mr Ahmed said.
Earlier addressing the seminar he paid tributes to the Bosnian
president and said he gave himself entirely to the liberation of his
country. He said Muslims in the world were fighting for peace and their
holy war was to remove differences according to the sayings of the
Quran instead of spreading them.
He disclosed that Pakistan fully supported the independence war of
Bosnia and helped Izat Begovich. “He visited Pakistan and the
government gave him everything he demanded for jihad.
When he was leaving Pakistan he was worried and desirous of more
support. Dr Abdul Qadir Khan and myself assured him that Pakistan would
help them fight till the last. Later they liberated their country with
Pakistan’s support,” he said.
Earlier, former information minister Syed Mushahid Hussain also said
their government gave arms to Bosnian fighters in 1993 to fight against
Yugoslavia.
“We went to Bosnia with our Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and supported
their cause. Later we gave them arms for their jihad,” he said. Former
foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz said the Bosnian jihad was the greatest
fight in European history and Muslim leaders should follow the life of
Ali Izat Begovich.
=== 2 ===
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/cf/Qbosnia-algeria-egypt.RyRT_DOA.html
Agence France-Presse
October 10, 2003
Algeria, Egypt seek terror suspects' extradition from
Bosnia
SARAJEVO, Oct 10 (AFP) - Algeria and Egypt have sought
the extradition of two of their nationals arrested in
Bosnia on suspicion of terrorist involvement, a
Bosnian official said Friday.
Aissa Benkhira, 35, with dual Algerian and Bosnian
citizenship, was arrested last month on an Interpol
warrant issued in 1995, the Bosnian court official
told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Amquad Youssef, an Egyptian also with dual Bosnian
citizenship, was arrested in August as he attempted to
enter the Balkan country with a fake Belgian passport.
He was also named on an Interpol arrest warant issued
in Cairo.
The official said the Bosnian constitution forbade the
extradition of Bosnian citizens, but the case of
Youssef was being examined to determine whether he
obtained his citizenship legally.
Justice officials here have asked Algeria to submit
the case against Benkhira so that he can be tried in
Bosnia.
Benkhira was tried in absentia and sentenced to death
in his native country for participating in a 1995
attack on an Algerian industrial zone that killed six
people including five foreigners, the source said.
The Islamic Armed Group (GIA) was suspected of being
behind the attack. The GIA has been battling the
Algerian government for more than a decade in a bid to
establish an Islamic republic.
Youssef is suspected of being a member of al-Jihad, an
Islamic extremist organisation based in Egypt, the
source said.
During Bosnia's 1992-95 war hundreds of volunteers
from Islamic countries joined the Muslim-led
government army to fight the Serbs and Croats.
Under the 1995 peace accords, all foreign fighters
were ordered to leave but some of them managed to
obtain Bosnian citizenship on the basis of their
military service or by marrying local women.
=== 3 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/fonettanjug103003.htm
Tanjug - October 30, 2003
SERBIA'S SPS CALLS FOR MINISTER'S DISMISSAL OVER IZETBEGOVIC OBITUARY
Belgrade, 30 October: Ivica Dacic, chairman of the main committee of
the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), said today that the SPS deputies
in the Serbia-Montenegro (SCG) Assembly would call for the dismissal
of Rasim Ljajic, member of the SCG Council of Ministers, "after his
scandalous choice of words in the obituary on the death of (former
chairman of the Bosnia-Hercegovina Presidency) Alija Izetbegovic, in
which he addressed him as 'dear president".
Speaking at a news conference in Belgrade, Dacic said it was clear that
Ljajic "cannot stay in the Council of Ministers any longer" and that
he expected the SPS's proposal to be included in the agenda of the SCG
Assembly session.
"The SPS calls on its voters and citizens of Serbia to boycott the
presidential elections," Dacic said, adding that the failure of the
elections "will be the final blow to DOS (Democratic Opposition of
Serbia) which will force it to call the parliamentary elections."
SERBIAN SOCIALISTS WANT OFFICIAL COMMENT ON MINISTER'S OBITUARY TO
IZETBEGOVIC
FoNet - October 30, 2003
Belgrade, 30 October: The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) demands of
the Serbia-Montenegro government to make up its mind over stances
upheld by Minister for Human and Minority Rights Rasim Ljajic in the
wake of the publication of an obituary in the Dnevni avaz newspaper
prompted by the death of (former Bosnia-Hercegovina president) Alija
Izetbegovic.
"If it (the government) also believes that Alija Izetbegovic deserved
gratitude from the citizens of Serbia-Montenegro, then let it tell us
publicly and let it enlighten us as to what these deeds were for which
he deserved our gratitude." The SPS said that "the crimes against
Serbia-Montenegro citizens and against the Serbs in Bosnia-Hercegovina
are not important to The Hague (tribunal) nor are they important to
Ljajic. However, unless they (ministers) distance themselves from
Ljajic, these crimes are not important then to the Serbia-Montenegro
government either".
http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25340&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - November 3, 2003
Socialists move no confidence in minorities minister
BELGRADE -- Monday – The Socialist Party of Serbia has
given the federal parliament notice of a motion of no
confidence in Human Rights Minister Rasim Ljajic.
The deputy parliamentary leader of the Socialist
Party, Veljko Odalovic, said today that the initiative
came after an obituary written by Ljajic for former
Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic which was
published in a Sarajevo newspaper.
“We were appalled that in the obituary Minister Ljajic
refers to Alija Izetbegovic as his president and
praises him and his work,” said Odalovic, adding that
the minister should explain to the parliament how the
former leader of the Party of Democratic Action was
“his president”.
Izetbegovic policies had resulted in an exodus of
Serbs from Bosnia and his party had brought together
Mujahadin from Al-Qaeda,” said Odalovic.
“A minister who has a mandate to protect human and
ethnic minority rights has no mandate to publish such
an obituary,” he added.
Ljajic himself dismissed the no confidence move as an
election stunt.
=== 4 ===
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/du/Qyemen-bosnia-qaeda.R1GZ_DN5.html
Yemeni imprisoned in Bosnia for al-Qaeda links returns
home
SANAA, Nov 5 (AFP) - A Yemeni who was imprisoned for
five years in Bosnia on charges of belonging to the
al-Qaeda terror network has returned to his country,
the ruling General People's Congress said here
Wednesday.
"Bosnian authorities have accused Nabil Ali al-Hila of
taking part in bomb attacks in Bosnia ... since then
the Yemeni government has spared no effort to free
him," said the GPC in a statement posted on its
website.
Hila returned to his hometown of Aden in southern
Yemen on Monday, the statement said without providing
further details.
Many Yemenis went to Afghanistan, Bosnia and Chechnya
in the 1980s and 1990s to fight for what they saw as
"Muslim causes".
=== 5 ===
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/du/Qwarcrimes-bosnia.RfQs_DN4.html
Agence France-Presse - November 4, 2003
Bosnian Muslim sentenced to 10 years for war crimes
SARAJEVO, Nov 4 (AFP) - A Sarajevo court sentenced a
former Bosnian Muslim soldier to 10 years in jail
Tuesday for his role in a wartime massacre of Croat
civilians, a prosecutor said.
Enes Sakrak, 30, was accused of taking part in the
September 1993 massacre of more than 30 Bosnian Croat
civilians, mainly elderly people, in Grabovica village
by the Bosnian government army.
He was "sentenced to 10 years in prison... for
committing war crimes against civilians" during
Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, Sarajevo county chief
prosecutor Mustafa Bisic said in a statement.
He is the first person to be sentenced for the
massacre.
Sakrak was arrested in August along with co-accused
Mustafa Hota. He pleaded guilty to the murder of two
civilians during the massacre, the statement said.
Sakrak's case is part of a wider investigation into
the massacre in Grabovica, 60 kilometers (37 miles)
southeast of Sarajevo, the statement added, without
disclosing the number of soldiers under investigation.
The Grabovica atrocity occurred during the year-long
Croat-Muslim conflict which broke out on the sidelines
of Bosnia's 1992-95 war, when Bosnian Croats and
Muslims fought against Bosnian Serbs who opposed
independence from the former communist Yugoslavia.
In 2001 the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia at The Hague indicted Bosnia's
wartime army chief-of-staff, retired general Sefer
Halilovic, for violation of the customs of war during
the operation that included the Grabovica massacre.
Halilovic, who turned himself in to the UN tribunal in
September 2001, was provisionally released pending
trial. He was accused of failing to investigate and
punish the perpetrators of the massacre.
Sakrak is mentioned in Halilovic's indictment as the
murderer of a Croat woman and her four-year-old
daughter, while Hota is said to have shot dead a
79-year-old man.
The Sarajevo trial was approved by the ICTY under an
agreement whereby Bosnian courts can conduct war
crimes trials only after receiving the go-ahead from
the UN court.
More than 200,000 people lost their lives during
Bosnia's war, while more than two million, over half
the country's population, were forced to flee their
homes.
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/ck/Qwarcrimes-bosnia-serbs.ROLq_DNA.html
Agence France-Presse - November 10, 2003
Bosnian Serbs offer war crimes "evidence" against
Muslims, Croats
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Nov 10 (AFP) - Bosnian
Serb former prisoners of war are planning to visit the
UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague to provide
"evidence" against Croats and Muslims, a POW
association said Monday.
The Republika Srpska Association of Detainees said a
delegation of former prisoners would present
unspecified information about alleged war crimes
during Bosnia's 1992-95 conflict when they visit The
Hague on Wednesday.
The association says it represents some 50,000 Serb
former POWs and claims that there were 536 detention
camps where Serbs were imprisoned in Bosnia during the
war.
The Serb-run Republika Srpska, which shares authority
in postwar Bosnia with the Muslim-Croat Federation,
remains the only territory of the former Yugoslavia
which has not arrested a single war crimes suspect.
NOTA: in questa rassegna di amici di Izetbegovic compaiono ministri
pachistani, mujaheddin membri del GIA, torturatori del campo di
Celebici, e financo ministri antiserbi della DOS quali il signor
Ljiajic.
Ci scusiamo con Adriano Sofri per non aver potuto reperire materiale
recente sulla sua nota stima per il nazista Alija Izetbegovic.
1. Former Pakistani information minister: “We went to Bosnia ... and
supported their cause. Later we gave them arms for their jihad”.
Former Pakistani foreign Minister: "The Bosnian jihad was the greatest
fight in European history and Muslim leaders should follow the life of
Ali Izat Begovich".
2. Algeria, Egypt seek terror suspects' extradition from
Bosnia (AFP, 10/10/03)
3. SERBIA'S SOCIALISTS CALL FOR MINISTER LJIAJIC'S DISMISSAL OVER
IZETBEGOVIC OBITUARY
4. Yemeni imprisoned in Bosnia for al-Qaeda links returns
home (AFP, 5/11/03)
5. More on war crimes by Bosnian muslim secessionists
=== RELATED DOCUMENTS ===
JIHAD the Holy War - Lashva valley:
http://public.srce.hr/zatocenici/jihad.htm
Video fragments showing Alija Izetbegovic's links with Mujahedin units:
http://public.srce.hr/zatocenici/video_en.htm
NATO Chieftan Lord Roberston Hails Theocratic
Secessionist Izetbegovic As "Courageous Statesman"
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/co/Qbosnia-politics.RVBE_DOK.html
US State Department: Izetbegovic Instrumental In
Bosnia *Remaining* A Unified Multiethnic *Country*
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-
english&y=2003&m=October&x=20031020174940samohtj0.5099604&t=usinfo/wf-
latest.html
---
http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/047.shtml
Celebici
By Carl Savich
Introduction: War Crimes in Bosnia
The Celebici Camp
Bosnian Muslim and Croat Detention Camps
The Celebici Trial
Conclusion: A Political Trial?
http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/047.shtml
---
http://www.swans.com/library/art9/alekp028.html
It Was A Good Day To Die
by Aleksandra Priestfield
Swans - November 3, 2003
... A spokeswoman for the Hague arch-witch hunter Carla del Ponte has
made a statement to the effect that Mr. Izetbegovic was "under
investigation" for unspecified war crimes at the time of his death.
The investigation will, naturally, be "halted" now that the
investigatee is conveniently no longer with us...
http://www.swans.com/library/art9/alekp028.html
---
Fairy Tales Can Come True....Del Ponte Was
Investigating Izetbegovic
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=25171&style=headlines
=== 1 ===
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_25-10-2003_pg7_4
Daily Times (Pakistan)
‘Pakistan provided Bosnians with arms’
By Khurram Shahzad
ISLAMABAD: Muttihida Majlis-e-Amal Parliamentary Leader Qazi Hussain
Ahmed has demanded President Gen Pervez Musharaf fulfill within
Pakistan his call to the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) in
Malaysia for Muslim unity.
Mr Ahmed was talking to journalists after a seminar organised by the
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) in memory of the late Bosnian leader Ali Izet
Begovich on Friday.
He said President Musharraf had posed himself as the leader of the
whole Muslim world at the OIC summit and urged for unity and working
relationships, but he was not implementing it in Pakistan.
He should play his role to unite Pakistani nation first and then talk
about anything else.
“Musharraf should unite the Pakistani nation despite his role in
destroying the unity of political parties and other public groups
within the country if he advocates the unity of the whole Muslim
world”, Mr Ahmed said.
Earlier addressing the seminar he paid tributes to the Bosnian
president and said he gave himself entirely to the liberation of his
country. He said Muslims in the world were fighting for peace and their
holy war was to remove differences according to the sayings of the
Quran instead of spreading them.
He disclosed that Pakistan fully supported the independence war of
Bosnia and helped Izat Begovich. “He visited Pakistan and the
government gave him everything he demanded for jihad.
When he was leaving Pakistan he was worried and desirous of more
support. Dr Abdul Qadir Khan and myself assured him that Pakistan would
help them fight till the last. Later they liberated their country with
Pakistan’s support,” he said.
Earlier, former information minister Syed Mushahid Hussain also said
their government gave arms to Bosnian fighters in 1993 to fight against
Yugoslavia.
“We went to Bosnia with our Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and supported
their cause. Later we gave them arms for their jihad,” he said. Former
foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz said the Bosnian jihad was the greatest
fight in European history and Muslim leaders should follow the life of
Ali Izat Begovich.
=== 2 ===
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/cf/Qbosnia-algeria-egypt.RyRT_DOA.html
Agence France-Presse
October 10, 2003
Algeria, Egypt seek terror suspects' extradition from
Bosnia
SARAJEVO, Oct 10 (AFP) - Algeria and Egypt have sought
the extradition of two of their nationals arrested in
Bosnia on suspicion of terrorist involvement, a
Bosnian official said Friday.
Aissa Benkhira, 35, with dual Algerian and Bosnian
citizenship, was arrested last month on an Interpol
warrant issued in 1995, the Bosnian court official
told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Amquad Youssef, an Egyptian also with dual Bosnian
citizenship, was arrested in August as he attempted to
enter the Balkan country with a fake Belgian passport.
He was also named on an Interpol arrest warant issued
in Cairo.
The official said the Bosnian constitution forbade the
extradition of Bosnian citizens, but the case of
Youssef was being examined to determine whether he
obtained his citizenship legally.
Justice officials here have asked Algeria to submit
the case against Benkhira so that he can be tried in
Bosnia.
Benkhira was tried in absentia and sentenced to death
in his native country for participating in a 1995
attack on an Algerian industrial zone that killed six
people including five foreigners, the source said.
The Islamic Armed Group (GIA) was suspected of being
behind the attack. The GIA has been battling the
Algerian government for more than a decade in a bid to
establish an Islamic republic.
Youssef is suspected of being a member of al-Jihad, an
Islamic extremist organisation based in Egypt, the
source said.
During Bosnia's 1992-95 war hundreds of volunteers
from Islamic countries joined the Muslim-led
government army to fight the Serbs and Croats.
Under the 1995 peace accords, all foreign fighters
were ordered to leave but some of them managed to
obtain Bosnian citizenship on the basis of their
military service or by marrying local women.
=== 3 ===
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/fonettanjug103003.htm
Tanjug - October 30, 2003
SERBIA'S SPS CALLS FOR MINISTER'S DISMISSAL OVER IZETBEGOVIC OBITUARY
Belgrade, 30 October: Ivica Dacic, chairman of the main committee of
the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), said today that the SPS deputies
in the Serbia-Montenegro (SCG) Assembly would call for the dismissal
of Rasim Ljajic, member of the SCG Council of Ministers, "after his
scandalous choice of words in the obituary on the death of (former
chairman of the Bosnia-Hercegovina Presidency) Alija Izetbegovic, in
which he addressed him as 'dear president".
Speaking at a news conference in Belgrade, Dacic said it was clear that
Ljajic "cannot stay in the Council of Ministers any longer" and that
he expected the SPS's proposal to be included in the agenda of the SCG
Assembly session.
"The SPS calls on its voters and citizens of Serbia to boycott the
presidential elections," Dacic said, adding that the failure of the
elections "will be the final blow to DOS (Democratic Opposition of
Serbia) which will force it to call the parliamentary elections."
SERBIAN SOCIALISTS WANT OFFICIAL COMMENT ON MINISTER'S OBITUARY TO
IZETBEGOVIC
FoNet - October 30, 2003
Belgrade, 30 October: The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) demands of
the Serbia-Montenegro government to make up its mind over stances
upheld by Minister for Human and Minority Rights Rasim Ljajic in the
wake of the publication of an obituary in the Dnevni avaz newspaper
prompted by the death of (former Bosnia-Hercegovina president) Alija
Izetbegovic.
"If it (the government) also believes that Alija Izetbegovic deserved
gratitude from the citizens of Serbia-Montenegro, then let it tell us
publicly and let it enlighten us as to what these deeds were for which
he deserved our gratitude." The SPS said that "the crimes against
Serbia-Montenegro citizens and against the Serbs in Bosnia-Hercegovina
are not important to The Hague (tribunal) nor are they important to
Ljajic. However, unless they (ministers) distance themselves from
Ljajic, these crimes are not important then to the Serbia-Montenegro
government either".
http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=25340&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - November 3, 2003
Socialists move no confidence in minorities minister
BELGRADE -- Monday – The Socialist Party of Serbia has
given the federal parliament notice of a motion of no
confidence in Human Rights Minister Rasim Ljajic.
The deputy parliamentary leader of the Socialist
Party, Veljko Odalovic, said today that the initiative
came after an obituary written by Ljajic for former
Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic which was
published in a Sarajevo newspaper.
“We were appalled that in the obituary Minister Ljajic
refers to Alija Izetbegovic as his president and
praises him and his work,” said Odalovic, adding that
the minister should explain to the parliament how the
former leader of the Party of Democratic Action was
“his president”.
Izetbegovic policies had resulted in an exodus of
Serbs from Bosnia and his party had brought together
Mujahadin from Al-Qaeda,” said Odalovic.
“A minister who has a mandate to protect human and
ethnic minority rights has no mandate to publish such
an obituary,” he added.
Ljajic himself dismissed the no confidence move as an
election stunt.
=== 4 ===
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/du/Qyemen-bosnia-qaeda.R1GZ_DN5.html
Yemeni imprisoned in Bosnia for al-Qaeda links returns
home
SANAA, Nov 5 (AFP) - A Yemeni who was imprisoned for
five years in Bosnia on charges of belonging to the
al-Qaeda terror network has returned to his country,
the ruling General People's Congress said here
Wednesday.
"Bosnian authorities have accused Nabil Ali al-Hila of
taking part in bomb attacks in Bosnia ... since then
the Yemeni government has spared no effort to free
him," said the GPC in a statement posted on its
website.
Hila returned to his hometown of Aden in southern
Yemen on Monday, the statement said without providing
further details.
Many Yemenis went to Afghanistan, Bosnia and Chechnya
in the 1980s and 1990s to fight for what they saw as
"Muslim causes".
=== 5 ===
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/du/Qwarcrimes-bosnia.RfQs_DN4.html
Agence France-Presse - November 4, 2003
Bosnian Muslim sentenced to 10 years for war crimes
SARAJEVO, Nov 4 (AFP) - A Sarajevo court sentenced a
former Bosnian Muslim soldier to 10 years in jail
Tuesday for his role in a wartime massacre of Croat
civilians, a prosecutor said.
Enes Sakrak, 30, was accused of taking part in the
September 1993 massacre of more than 30 Bosnian Croat
civilians, mainly elderly people, in Grabovica village
by the Bosnian government army.
He was "sentenced to 10 years in prison... for
committing war crimes against civilians" during
Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, Sarajevo county chief
prosecutor Mustafa Bisic said in a statement.
He is the first person to be sentenced for the
massacre.
Sakrak was arrested in August along with co-accused
Mustafa Hota. He pleaded guilty to the murder of two
civilians during the massacre, the statement said.
Sakrak's case is part of a wider investigation into
the massacre in Grabovica, 60 kilometers (37 miles)
southeast of Sarajevo, the statement added, without
disclosing the number of soldiers under investigation.
The Grabovica atrocity occurred during the year-long
Croat-Muslim conflict which broke out on the sidelines
of Bosnia's 1992-95 war, when Bosnian Croats and
Muslims fought against Bosnian Serbs who opposed
independence from the former communist Yugoslavia.
In 2001 the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia at The Hague indicted Bosnia's
wartime army chief-of-staff, retired general Sefer
Halilovic, for violation of the customs of war during
the operation that included the Grabovica massacre.
Halilovic, who turned himself in to the UN tribunal in
September 2001, was provisionally released pending
trial. He was accused of failing to investigate and
punish the perpetrators of the massacre.
Sakrak is mentioned in Halilovic's indictment as the
murderer of a Croat woman and her four-year-old
daughter, while Hota is said to have shot dead a
79-year-old man.
The Sarajevo trial was approved by the ICTY under an
agreement whereby Bosnian courts can conduct war
crimes trials only after receiving the go-ahead from
the UN court.
More than 200,000 people lost their lives during
Bosnia's war, while more than two million, over half
the country's population, were forced to flee their
homes.
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/ck/Qwarcrimes-bosnia-serbs.ROLq_DNA.html
Agence France-Presse - November 10, 2003
Bosnian Serbs offer war crimes "evidence" against
Muslims, Croats
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Nov 10 (AFP) - Bosnian
Serb former prisoners of war are planning to visit the
UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague to provide
"evidence" against Croats and Muslims, a POW
association said Monday.
The Republika Srpska Association of Detainees said a
delegation of former prisoners would present
unspecified information about alleged war crimes
during Bosnia's 1992-95 conflict when they visit The
Hague on Wednesday.
The association says it represents some 50,000 Serb
former POWs and claims that there were 536 detention
camps where Serbs were imprisoned in Bosnia during the
war.
The Serb-run Republika Srpska, which shares authority
in postwar Bosnia with the Muslim-Croat Federation,
remains the only territory of the former Yugoslavia
which has not arrested a single war crimes suspect.