Milosevic to face extra war crimes charges
The UN war crimes court prosecutor says Slobodan Milosevic will be indicted for war crimes committed in 1990s wars in Bosnia and Croatia as well as against Kosovo Albanians.
Deputy prosecutor Graham Blewitt it is expected that the two additional indictments will be completed by the end of the summer.
Milosevic was handed over to officials of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which has indicted him on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the 1998-1999 Serbian in Kosovo.
Bosnian and Croatian leaders have repeatedly stressed that he should also be indicted for his role in 1991-95 Serbo-Croatian conflict and 1992-95 Bosnian war.
Milosevic admitted, on his arrest in April, that his regime financed secessionist Serb forces in wars in Croatia and Bosnia.
The former Yugoslav president was apparently flown from a US military base in Bosnia to the Netherlands aboard a British plane. He was delivered by helicopter to the bleak, walled prison to await trial for atrocities committed by his forces in the crackdown against Kosovo Albanians two years ago.
On Friday, tribunal spokesman Jim Landale said Milosevic spent an uneventful first night there following a routine physical - results of which were not disclosed. Milosevic was assigned temporarily to a single-man cell in the special UN wing of the prison pending a final decision on whether he will be segregated from the 38 other war crimes defendants.
In the meantime, authorities are watching carefully to see how the man who once described himself as the "Ayatollah Khomeini of the Balkans" will react to his new environment.
"They will keep a close eye on his mood and provide whatever he needs," Mr Landale said. "The assessment will continue for a few days, working out what the appropriate arrangements should be, keeping in mind his security and well being."
He is expected to be arraigned within a week, according to tribunal officials.
In Yugoslavia, the dramatic move - in defiance of an order by the Yugoslav Constitutional Court staying any extradition - threatens to plunge the Balkan country into a political crisis.
Milosevic's successor, Vojislav Kostunica, has denounced the handover as "illegal and unconstitutional." Others have accused Serb Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, who spearheaded the decision, of "treason" and buckling under US pressure.
