BRUSSELS, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Prosecutors were told on Thursday to drop some of the charges against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in order to speed up the trial, Dutch media reported.
Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz intends to bring 11 charges against Karadzic. But the judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) believe that the charges are too many to handle. Prosecutors are also being asked to indicate which of the 500 proposed witnesses can be scrapped.
The prosecutors will have to present the court with a written document showing how the trial can be settled more quickly. They will have to indicate which witnesses are superfluous and which indictments can be dropped.
Currently, Karadzic is charged with 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, including persecution, extermination, and deportation during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.
The UN court in The Hague is under pressure to conclude the Karadzic trial at an early date given the fact that former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic died in custody.
The tribunal was initially meant to finish all trials by 2008 and appeals by 2010. But it has recently suggested that it will only conclude its final Karadzic trial in early 2012, while appeals may run into 2013.
Karadzic was arrested in July 2008 in Serbia after 13 years on the run. He was transferred to the ICTY the same month.
I remind everyone, when I attended those ICC Preparatory Meetings in 2001, witnessing
回复删除first hand the country plenipotentiary representatives present with me discussing so
openly, trading judicial funding of a new international criminal court, for its direct
judicial appointments and judicial verdicts, those same state powers were
concurrently,
those same countries and people were already simultaneously, funding the already
established ICTY which was issuing at that time, arrest warrants for Bosnian Serbs
(primarily) under false diplomatic pretenses.
The ICTY and ICC is just where it should be for once.
Cornered and backed into and an international wall, scared like a corned animal (and I
bet it reacts in the same way a rabid cornered animal does too in such circumstances).
(ICTY associates)
http://picasaweb.google.com/lpcyusa/DuringTheTrialOfRamushHaradinajIn2006TheHagueWarCrimesTribunalForTheF
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(Documents: Hague war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has destroyed all material evidence about the
monstrous KLA (ALbanian) organ trade of Kosovo)
I believe strongly that ICYU assocaites murdered former Serb President, Slobodan Milosevic, tried to murder
me, as well and other Serbs prisoners and presently places , Doctor Radovan Karadzic’s
life in direct danger as well as Ratko Mladic’s life in danger should he be brought there.
The ICTY has no other choice than to halt all further court proceedings against, Doctor
Radovan Karadzic, and others there both serving sentences and awaiting trials.
Miss JIll Louise Starr (The UN Security Council has no choice but to act on this now).
I represented the state interests' of the Former Yugoslavia, in Darko Trifunovic’s
absence in those meetings and I am proud to undertake this effort on Serbia’s behalf.