NAVY SEALS: UNTOLD STORIES (BOSNIA) PART 2 OF 3 Former President of Serbia & Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic was arrested and delivered to the International Tribunal in the Hague (ICTY) thanks to the co-operation of the new authorities in Belgrade. The delivery of the most accountable persons for the tragic events in the former Yugoslavia is of special significance for the work of the Tribunal, international-legal relations and for the normalization of the situation in the region. The indictment against Milosevic, who rejects to recognize the legality of the Hague Tribunal and to name the defense lawyers, has been extended for three times. Primary, the indictment referred only to Kosovo, then it encompassed war crimes in Croatia, then again new indictments for Kosovo and finally it was extended for crimes committed during the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina. Of particular importance is the fact that the indictment for crimes in BiH includes genocide. Bosnian General Radoslav Krstic was sentenced to 46 years’ imprisonment for massacres and persecution of Bosniaks in July 1995 in the area of Srebrenica. This was the first sentence pronounced for genocide by the Hague Tribunal. However, The Prosecution asks for life sentence for Krstic in view of the seriousness of crimes he is accountable for. The ICTY’s Appeal Chamber confirmed the first instance judgment of 40 years in prison to Bosnian Serb Goran Jelisic for murders of a great number of Bosniaks and Croats in the camp Luke near Brcko. Jelisic named himself “Serb Hitler”. Bosnian Serbs, Zoran Zigic, who had been a policeman during the war, was sentenced to 25 years in prison, Mladjo Radic, former chief of the camp, to 20 years in prison, Miroslav Kvocka, former deputy commander of the camp, to seven years and Milojica Kos, former chief of the camp to six years, while Dragoljub Prcac was sentenced to five years in prison.
