War crimes indictments “to be revised”

Serbian Justice Minister Snežana Malović has announced that Serbian and Croatian prosecutions’ working group will revise war crimes indictments.

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Saturday, 02.04.2011.

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Serbian Justice Minister Snezana Malovic has announced that Serbian and Croatian prosecutions’ working group will revise war crimes indictments. “This is being done in order to determine whether these proceedings should be continued or stopped,” she said. War crimes indictments “to be revised” The minister told reporters that there were about 90 indictments for war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia, based on which arrest warrants for suspects had been issued. “We have a joint working group with Croatia. The two prosecutions will revise the cases and determine which actions should be processed and whether they should be carried out in the first place,” she pointed out and added that those were the cases which the Serbian prosecution got from the former military courts. The justice minister stressed that Croatia had changed its Criminal Procedure Code and that it was now possible to repeat war crime trials even if the accused person is absent. When asked about Tihomir Purda’s case, Malovic said that the Serbian prosecution had concluded, after questioning the Croat war veteran, that there were no grounds to launch a proceeding against him. Snezana Malovic (Tanjug, file)

War crimes indictments “to be revised”

The minister told reporters that there were about 90 indictments for war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia, based on which arrest warrants for suspects had been issued.

“We have a joint working group with Croatia. The two prosecutions will revise the cases and determine which actions should be processed and whether they should be carried out in the first place,” she pointed out and added that those were the cases which the Serbian prosecution got from the former military courts.

The justice minister stressed that Croatia had changed its Criminal Procedure Code and that it was now possible to repeat war crime trials even if the accused person is absent.

When asked about Tihomir Purda’s case, Malović said that the Serbian prosecution had concluded, after questioning the Croat war veteran, that there were no grounds to launch a proceeding against him.

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