ICTY begins war crimes trial of former high-level Bosnian Serb officials

09/15/09: JURIST reports that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday began the trial of former high ranking Bosnian Serb officials Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin. Stanisic, former Bosnian Serb interior minister, and Zupljanin, a former regional police chief, are charged with persecution, extermination, murder, deportation, and torture of non-Serb civilians in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.

10/30/08: BalkanInsight reports that a Serbian prosecutor is requesting an investigation of seven people who helped former Bosnian Serb police chief, Stojan Zupljanin, avoid detection and arrest. Zuplijanin managed to dodge authorities for years by assuming a false identity and moving from secret locations with the aid of several sympathizers. The prosecutor is seeking to indict those who aided Zuplijanin, who is now facing war crimes charges in The Hague.

06/15/08: On Wednesday, Serbia arrested Bosnian Serb security chief Stojan Zupljanin and will hand him over to the International Criminal Tribunal - Yugoslavia.  The story is here.

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