Retired Bosnian general surrenders to tribunal
A retired Bosnian general surrendered to the war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands today.
Rasim Delic, aged 56, who led the Muslim-dominated Bosnian Army during the 1992-95 war, is accused of responsibility for atrocities against Serbs.
Shortly after arriving in The Hague from Sarajevo, Delic was taken to a cell at the UN detention unit where he joined more than 50 suspects.
Another retired wartime general, Radivoj Miletic, was also due to surrender today to face charges related to atrocities against Bosnian Muslims in 1995.
The two fought on opposite sides of the Bosnia war which pitted Croats, Serbs and Muslims against each other and led to the deaths of tens of thousands.
Miletic was charged with two other Bosnian Serb generals, Milan Gvero and Zdravko Tolimir, for their alleged part in the genocide of more than 7,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in July 1995.
Gvero surrendered last week and the Serbian government is negotiating Tolimir’s surrender.
Delic is accused of four counts of war crimes, including the alleged murder, cruel treatment and rape of Bosnian Serb and Croat prisoners, committed by foreign Islamic volunteers.
Several prisoners were decapitated. On one occasion, the indictment said, “the other prisoners were forced to kiss the severed head”, which was then hung on a hook on the wall where the prisoners were held.
