Sarajevo siege general on trial
THE HAGUE, (BBC)_A Bosnian Serb general goes on trial in The Hague on Monday on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes during the siege of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1994.
Stanislav Galic has pleaded not guilty to the charges at the United Nations war crimes tribunal.
The indictment says General Galic's forces used a strategy of shelling and sniping designed to keep the inhabitants of Sarajevo in a constant state of terror.
He is the first person to be tried in connection with the siege, during which more than 10,000 people are estimated to have been killed.
The general was arrested in December 1999 by Nato troops in the Bosnian Serb town of Banja Luka.
Prosecutors hold him directly responsible for an attack on a Sarajevo market in 1994, which left 66 people dead and 140 wounded.
The indictment speaks
of his forces directing "shelling and sniping at civilians who were tending vegetable plots, queuing for bread, collecting water, attending funerals, shopping in markets, riding on trams, gathering wood or simply walking with their children and friends".
THE HAGUE, (BBC)_A Bosnian Serb general goes on trial in The Hague on Monday on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes during the siege of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1994.
Stanislav Galic has pleaded not guilty to the charges at the United Nations war crimes tribunal.
The indictment says General Galic's forces used a strategy of shelling and sniping designed to keep the inhabitants of Sarajevo in a constant state of terror.
He is the first person to be tried in connection with the siege, during which more than 10,000 people are estimated to have been killed.
The general was arrested in December 1999 by Nato troops in the Bosnian Serb town of Banja Luka.
Prosecutors hold him directly responsible for an attack on a Sarajevo market in 1994, which left 66 people dead and 140 wounded.
The indictment speaks
of his forces directing "shelling and sniping at civilians who were tending vegetable plots, queuing for bread, collecting water, attending funerals, shopping in markets, riding on trams, gathering wood or simply walking with their children and friends".