THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A former Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader confessed at a U.N. tribunal Wednesday he was guilty of raping Muslim women in eastern Bosnia 15 years ago.
Dragan Zelenovic, a former Bosnian Serb military police chief in the 1991-95 ethnic wars in the former Yugoslavia, admitted to crimes against humanity such as multiple rapes and torturing Bosnian Muslim girls in the eastern Bosnian town of Foca in 1992, Belgrade's B92 radio reported.
At a hearing session of the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Zelenovic admitted he repeatedly raped two Bosnian Muslim girls, one of them aged 15, between July and October 1992, after Serbian forces took control of Foca the previous April.
He also let other Serbian soldiers rape the two girls as well as other Bosnian Muslim women who were illegally kept in several locations in Foca.
Zelenovic was arrested in Russia, where he was hiding, in August 2005 and extradited to Bosnia-Herzegovina. He was transferred to The Hague in June 2006 and pleaded innocent to all charges.
