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Hague tribunal to pass sentence on Vlastimir Jorjevic
THE HAGUE, February 23 (Itar-Tass) - The international war crimes
tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Wednesday is to pass a sentence on former Yugoslav Deputy Minister of the Interior Vlastimil Jorjevic who headed the public security department from June 1,1997, to January 30,2001.
Jorjevic is charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity
committed in 1999 against Kosovo's ethnic Albanians.
Charges against Jorjevic include such counts as forcible relocations,
deportation, murders, expulsion of ethnic Albanian civilians from Kosovo, as well as a "large-scale campaign of terror and violence against ethnic Albanians".
Jorjevic was in hiding from international prosecution for four years
but was arrested on June 17, 2007, by Montenegrin authorities in the city of Budva and handed over to the Hague tribunal. When he was first brought before the Tribunal, he did not plead guilty on any point of indictiment.
tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Wednesday is to pass a sentence on former Yugoslav Deputy Minister of the Interior Vlastimil Jorjevic who headed the public security department from June 1,1997, to January 30,2001.
Jorjevic is charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity
committed in 1999 against Kosovo's ethnic Albanians.
Charges against Jorjevic include such counts as forcible relocations,
deportation, murders, expulsion of ethnic Albanian civilians from Kosovo, as well as a "large-scale campaign of terror and violence against ethnic Albanians".
Jorjevic was in hiding from international prosecution for four years
but was arrested on June 17, 2007, by Montenegrin authorities in the city of Budva and handed over to the Hague tribunal. When he was first brought before the Tribunal, he did not plead guilty on any point of indictiment.
