W. crimes prosecution plans new investigations

Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekarić says that the prosecution is carrying out several new investigations and that 2010 will be a year of new cases.

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Wednesday, 31.03.2010.

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Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekaric says that the prosecution is carrying out several new investigations and that 2010 will be a year of new cases. Vekaric said that the War Crimes Prosecution was intensively investigating and gathering information in several locations but he did not want to state what the probes concerned. W. crimes prosecution plans new investigations He said that process of extradition of former Muslim member of Bosnia's wartime presidency Ejup Ganic would not be opened before the first hearing before the British court on April 13 and that it could not be predicted whether Ganic would be extradited to Belgrade or Sarajevo. “It’s up to us to do everything we can to prove we’re right, British prosecutors will do everything else on our behalf, and the British court will decide about that,” Vekaric pointed out. He did not wish comment on the proceedings, stating that it would represent pressure on the British court, and added that the prosecution was not happy that this subject was dividing Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina and causing political controversy. “We are simply acting as a judicial authority and we don’t want to make relations with Bosnia-Herzegovina worse with any of our acts or apply pressure to the British court,” he explained. According to the deputy war crimes prosecutor, 69 threats against prosecutors have been recorded so far and some of them were “extremely serious”, some were made by people of Serbian origin "from The Hague and U.S.", but security services determined that they did not represent high risk, he said. Vekaric gave a lecture on war crimes in territory of former Yugoslavia and significance of their prosecution to law students in Belgrade on Tuesday.

W. crimes prosecution plans new investigations

He said that process of extradition of former Muslim member of Bosnia's wartime presidency Ejup Ganić would not be opened before the first hearing before the British court on April 13 and that it could not be predicted whether Ganić would be extradited to Belgrade or Sarajevo.

“It’s up to us to do everything we can to prove we’re right, British prosecutors will do everything else on our behalf, and the British court will decide about that,” Vekarić pointed out.

He did not wish comment on the proceedings, stating that it would represent pressure on the British court, and added that the prosecution was not happy that this subject was dividing Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina and causing political controversy.

“We are simply acting as a judicial authority and we don’t want to make relations with Bosnia-Herzegovina worse with any of our acts or apply pressure to the British court,” he explained.

According to the deputy war crimes prosecutor, 69 threats against prosecutors have been recorded so far and some of them were “extremely serious”, some were made by people of Serbian origin "from The Hague and U.S.", but security services determined that they did not represent high risk, he said.

Vekarić gave a lecture on war crimes in territory of former Yugoslavia and significance of their prosecution to law students in Belgrade on Tuesday.

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