U.N. Yugoslav tribunal indicts former
Milosevic security chiefs
Associated Press Worldstream - May 5, 2003 Monday 1:30 PM Eastern Time
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - U.N. prosecutors indicted two allies of former Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic for allegedly murdering and deporting Croats and
Muslims between 1991-1995, the U.N. tribunal said Monday.
Former state security chief Jovica Stanisic and his deputy, Franko Simatovic,
headed notorious Serb paramilitary units in the Bosnian and Croatian wars, the
tribunal said.
They are currently in detention in Belgrade in connection with the March 12
assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.
They were expected to be transferred to the tribunal's detention unit in The
Hague soon. The tribunal says international war crimes law takes precedence over
criminal procedures in national courts.
Tribunal spokesman Jim Landale said the men were accused of five counts of
crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war for alleged
crimes in the formerly Serb controlled regions of Eastern Slavonia and the
Krajina, Croatia.
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