Ex-Yugoslav Army chief’s defense to file appeal

Former Yugoslav Army Chief of General Staff Momčilo Perišić’s Novak Lukić told B92 that they will file an appeal against the 27-year prison sentence.

Izvor: B92

Wednesday, 07.09.2011.

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Former Yugoslav Army Chief of General Staff Momcilo Perisic’s Novak Lukic told B92 that they will file an appeal against the 27-year prison sentence. The Hague Tribunal prosecution has said the verdict is yet to be analyzed and that a decision on the appeal will be made within 30 days. Ex-Yugoslav Army chief’s defense to file appeal “If aiding and waging a war are qualified as crimes it can seriously reflect on international relations,” Lukic stressed. “If you put things like that, than everything that is going on in Libya and Afghanistan and helping those wars needs to be taken seriously. This will be one of the main strategies in the appeal process, we believe that the Appeals Chamber will look at it more rationally,” he added. In the meantime reactions to Perisic’s verdict Head of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s team in the process before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Sakib Softic has assessed that the Hague Tribunal “granted amnesty to Serbia for an attempt to exterminate Bosniaks in Eastern Europe” by acquitting Perisic of responsibility for genocide in Srebrenica. According to him, the verdict had to but did not confirm his ties with Republic of Srpska (RS) Army Commander Ratko Mladic at the time of the Srebrenica genocide. The Hague Tribunal sentenced Perisic to 27 years in prison for aiding and abetting crimes committed against Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina between 1993 and 1995 and against Croats in Croatia. Momcilo Perisic

Ex-Yugoslav Army chief’s defense to file appeal

“If aiding and waging a war are qualified as crimes it can seriously reflect on international relations,” Lukić stressed.

“If you put things like that, than everything that is going on in Libya and Afghanistan and helping those wars needs to be taken seriously. This will be one of the main strategies in the appeal process, we believe that the Appeals Chamber will look at it more rationally,” he added.

In the meantime reactions to Perišić’s verdict

Head of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s team in the process before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Sakib Softić has assessed that the Hague Tribunal “granted amnesty to Serbia for an attempt to exterminate Bosniaks in Eastern Europe” by acquitting Perišić of responsibility for genocide in Srebrenica.

According to him, the verdict had to but did not confirm his ties with Republic of Srpska (RS) Army Commander Ratko Mladić at the time of the Srebrenica genocide.

The Hague Tribunal sentenced Perišić to 27 years in prison for aiding and abetting crimes committed against Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina between 1993 and 1995 and against Croats in Croatia.

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