U.N. war crimes court seeks six suspects
Published: Jan. 4, 2007 at 11:04 AM
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- U.N. tribunal officials said they want to try six men still at large, including two Bosnian Serbs facing genocide charges, before the tribunal closes its work.
The U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague has 49 detained suspects waiting rulings on appeals, being tried or awaiting the opening of their trials, Serbia's Beta news agency reported Thursday.
Among the six men on the run, however, are former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic and Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic. They are sought on genocide and crimes against humanity charges in the 1991-95 ethnic wars in the former Yugoslavia.
Mladic's activities are reportedly linked to the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in July 1995 at Srebrenica, after the town was overrun by Bosnian Serb units, and a three-year siege and bombardment of Sarajevo.
U.N. tribunal officials are eager to have Mladic, Karadzic and another four ethnic Serbs arrested and put on trial, before The Hague court closes its work in 2010.
The U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague has 49 detained suspects waiting rulings on appeals, being tried or awaiting the opening of their trials, Serbia's Beta news agency reported Thursday.
Among the six men on the run, however, are former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic and Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic. They are sought on genocide and crimes against humanity charges in the 1991-95 ethnic wars in the former Yugoslavia.
Mladic's activities are reportedly linked to the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in July 1995 at Srebrenica, after the town was overrun by Bosnian Serb units, and a three-year siege and bombardment of Sarajevo.
U.N. tribunal officials are eager to have Mladic, Karadzic and another four ethnic Serbs arrested and put on trial, before The Hague court closes its work in 2010.
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