GROUP OF 250 BOSNIAN SERB EX-CAMP INMATES TO TESTIFY FOR MILOSEVIC IN THE HAGUE
SRNA - April 24, 2004

Banja Luka, 24 April: The (Bosnian) Serb Republic Association of (former) Camp Inmates decided at today's annual convention in Banja Luka that 250 former prisoners - who were held (during wars in the former Yugoslavia) in as many Muslim, Croatian and Slovene prison camps for Serbs - will testify for the defence of the former Serbian and Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic.

"Among these 250 former camp inmates, there are 11 women who had been raped and 19 young men who were taken to Muslim and Croatian prison camps as children at the beginning of the war," SRNA has been told by Branislav Dukic, president of the Serb Republic Association of Former Camp Inmates.

He added that the camp inmates veterans will prove with their testimony in The Hague that not only Muslims and Croats, but also Serbs, had suffered in the former Yugoslav republics.

Dukic said that, at today's annual convention, Slavko Jovicic was re-elected as the vice-president of the Serb Republic Association of Former Camp Inmates. He had been suspended from this post because of his outbursts at gatherings of the opposition (as published) in Banja Luka.

Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1545 gmt 24 Apr 04

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