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Tribunal accuses Serbs of war-crimes
The Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Setting the stage for the first war-crimes trial since World War II, a tribunal yesterday accused 21 Serbs with committing atrocities against Croats and Muslims interned in a Bosnian prison camp.
Only one suspect is in custody, a karate expert named Dusan Tadic, so the former Kozarac police officer may be the lone person to come to trial for crimes that include killings, torture, rape and beatings at the Omarska camp.
Set up by the U.N. Security Council in 1993, the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal that announced the indictments is trying to focus world opinion on the only instance of alleged genocide in Europe since the Nazi exterminations of Jews and Gypsies during World War II.
The indictments cap a five-month inquiry involving 20 investigators, attorneys and analysts who traveled to 12 countries to examine evidence and interview victims.
Unlike the post-World War II tribunals at Nuremberg and Tokyo, which were organized by the victors with major suspects already in custody, the Yugoslav tribunal is attempting to try suspects from a conflict still raging. More than 200,000 people are dead or missing in a 34-month-long war.
The indictments coincided with
this week's budget discussions for the tribunal at the United Nations. The United Nations has so far allocated three months' funding, $7 million, out of a requested 1995 allocation of $28 million.
Nineteen of the 21 indicted were functionaries at the Omarska camp in northwest Bosnia. None are among the better known of those accused of atrocities in the war because no direct evidence has been established between the political and military leadership and the crimes committed, a tribunal spokesman said.
U. S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger identified in 1992 as possible war criminals Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, considered the primary aggressors in the conflict. They were not on Monday's list.
Nor were the Serb militia leaders Vojislav Seselj and Zeljko Raznjatovic, alias Arkan.
The indictments focus more on guards and officers at the Omarska prison camp, a former mining complex used to intern Muslim and Croat intellectuals, professionals and political leaders about 100 miles from Sarajevo. All the victims were Croats or Muslims; all those charged were Serbs.
The commander of the camp, Zeljko Meakic, is the only suspect charged with genocide. He also is
held responsible for murders, raps and torture committed by his subordinates in the camp. Some 3,000 inmates passed through the camp from May to August 1992.
According to the indictment, Meakle personally beat his prisoners with batons and other weapons upon their arrival. It said terror ruled the camp, with inmates routinely tortured, raped and killed.
The one suspect in custody, the 39-year-old Tadic, is being held in Germany. Alaw allowing him to be handed over to the tribunal is expected to pass the German parliament in March.
An investigator's statement, based on witness reports, alleges Tadic and others forced one inmate to bite off the testicle of another prisoner. That prisoner later died, along with two other people who had been beaten.
Bosnian Serb authorities in Pale have rejected the U.N. court's jurisdiction so these cases, like those before, are unlikely to result in trial.
"With the exception of the accused Tadic, who's in custody in Germany, it's understood that the remaining accused still reside in the Prijador region, which of course is still under control of the Bosnian Serbs," said Graham Blewitt, tribunal deputy prosecutor.
"At this point we have no reason to anticipate that there will be any significant cooperation in terms of surrendering individuals," Blewitt told reporters.
"I am not familiar with the (indictment) list," Karadzic said Monday. "Our constitution forbids us to give up any of our citizens, but we are going to try anyone if you give us any evidence."
The tribunal previously indicted just one suspect and holds no one in the 12 cells it maintains in a Dutch prison.
Dragan Nikolic, a Bosnian Serb, is the only suspect previously indicted for war crimes. He's believed to be in Serb-controlled Bosnia.
Tribunal spokesman Christian Chartier defended the indictments, saying, "If we are not in a position to fulfil a judicial mission, we'll be at least in a position to have a documentary mission."
While the tribunal cannot try suspects in absentia, it can hold public hearings on the charges.
The charges name 19 Omarska officials and so-called visitors for alleged crimes against humanity and breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
Named in a second indictment was Tadic, who is accused of 13 killings, including listing four Bosnian Muslims against a wall near Kozarac and shooting them to death and raping prisoners inside the Omsarsa camp.
NAACP wants minorities on state historical society board
Another suspect, Goran Borovnica, was indicted along with Tadic for the Kozarac killings.
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A special committee will be created to study the makeup of the Kansas State Historical Society, after complaints about the lack of minorities on the board.
"We just want to be included," Louise Fletcher, state president of the
Representatives from the Kansas National Association for the Advancement of Colored People met with the historical society board Friday to discuss ways to include Blacks.
NAACP, told the board Fridav.
Pointing his finger around the table at the white men and women on the committee, he said, "Take a look around this table. Does this represent the state of Kansas? Racism and segregation is alive and well in Kansas."
The main spokesman for the NAACP Friday was Gilbert Hammond of Junction City.
But later he closed by saying, "We come here with love; we didn't come here to fight."
Historical Society Executive Director Ramon Powers said he would arrange a ceremony soon and invite the NAACP leaders to wield the sledge hammer that knocks down the
Historical society officials also promised to have a sign outside Lecompton's historic Constitution Hall identifying it as the "slavery capital of Kansas" removed soon.
Jim Forsythe of Hays, chairman of
the executive board, said he would create a special committee to look into the composition of the executive board.
offensive sign in Lecompton.
"You have made my day, Mr. Powers." Hammond said.
But NAACP members were told they would have to go to the Legislature to keep the first territorial capitol building in Fort Riley open.
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