Post by bob1389 on Nov 24, 2008 10:09:09 GMT -5
Ex-Serb POWs Sue Bosnia Prosecutors For Alleged Bias
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina (AFP)--A group of former Bosnian Serb prisoners of war Monday lodged a legal complaint accusing prosecutors of failing to act on atrocities committed against Serbs. The POWs said they "pressed charges" against state prosecutor Milorad Barasin and his deputy David Schwendiman before the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, Bosnia's highest judicial institution.
Barasin and Schwendiman "did not prosecute more than 300 cases they received from The Hague-based U.N. war crimes tribunal in 2004," said Branislav Dukic, head of the association of some 50,000 Serb prisoners of war. The cases were "related to war crimes committed against Serb soldiers and civilians during the Bosnian war," he told AFP. The U.N.'s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which is due to wind up its operations by 2010, forwarded a number of cases to Bosnia's justice system to ease its load.
Bosnia's 1992-1995 war claimed at least 100,000 lives while some 2.2 million people, or around half of the country's population, were forced to flee their homes.
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina (AFP)--A group of former Bosnian Serb prisoners of war Monday lodged a legal complaint accusing prosecutors of failing to act on atrocities committed against Serbs. The POWs said they "pressed charges" against state prosecutor Milorad Barasin and his deputy David Schwendiman before the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, Bosnia's highest judicial institution.
Barasin and Schwendiman "did not prosecute more than 300 cases they received from The Hague-based U.N. war crimes tribunal in 2004," said Branislav Dukic, head of the association of some 50,000 Serb prisoners of war. The cases were "related to war crimes committed against Serb soldiers and civilians during the Bosnian war," he told AFP. The U.N.'s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which is due to wind up its operations by 2010, forwarded a number of cases to Bosnia's justice system to ease its load.
Bosnia's 1992-1995 war claimed at least 100,000 lives while some 2.2 million people, or around half of the country's population, were forced to flee their homes.