Extradited Mladic to be charged tomorrow
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June 2, 2011, Thursday
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Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, extradited to the Netherlands from Serbia after 16 years on the run, will be formally charged with genocide at the UN war crimes tribunal tomorrow.
Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia scheduled Mladic's initial court appearance for tomorrow at 08:00GMT, when he will be charged and asked to enter a plea, according to a statement on the court's website.
Serge Brammertz, prosecutor for the tribunal, said yesterday that everything possible would be done to avoid a lengthy trial.
Several war crimes trials in The Hague have dragged on for years.
Asked how long the whole process could take, he said that depended on several things, including Mladic's health and whether he appointed a legal team or handled his own defense.
"It is very difficult to say how long it will last. The problem will not be the prosecution, we have our updated charge sheet ready, it will be a question of how long the defense needs to prepare their case."
Mladic was indicted by the tribunal 16 years ago over the 43-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica, close to the border with Serbia, during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
Brammertz welcomed Serbia's decision to extradite Mladic, even though he said it took a "very long time."
"We would be very interested to know where he was between 2006 and 2011 ... we are waiting for the relevant reports so that we know who sheltered him, when and where," the prosecutor said.
Serbia must still do more, Brammertz said, urging the authorities to track down Goran Hadzic, an ethnic Serb also wanted by the UN tribunal.
Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia scheduled Mladic's initial court appearance for tomorrow at 08:00GMT, when he will be charged and asked to enter a plea, according to a statement on the court's website.
Serge Brammertz, prosecutor for the tribunal, said yesterday that everything possible would be done to avoid a lengthy trial.
Several war crimes trials in The Hague have dragged on for years.
Asked how long the whole process could take, he said that depended on several things, including Mladic's health and whether he appointed a legal team or handled his own defense.
"It is very difficult to say how long it will last. The problem will not be the prosecution, we have our updated charge sheet ready, it will be a question of how long the defense needs to prepare their case."
Mladic was indicted by the tribunal 16 years ago over the 43-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica, close to the border with Serbia, during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
Brammertz welcomed Serbia's decision to extradite Mladic, even though he said it took a "very long time."
"We would be very interested to know where he was between 2006 and 2011 ... we are waiting for the relevant reports so that we know who sheltered him, when and where," the prosecutor said.
Serbia must still do more, Brammertz said, urging the authorities to track down Goran Hadzic, an ethnic Serb also wanted by the UN tribunal.
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