Mladic: Tribunal Adopts Proposal to Reduce Indictment
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The Hague Tribunal adopted the Prosecution’s proposal to limit its presentation of evidence to a selection of 106 crimes, instead of the 196 initially scheduled crimes in Ratko Mladic’s indictment.
Under the same decision, it adopted the Prosecution’s proposal to limit the number of municipalities to 15 instead of 23.
The Chamber decided that the Prosecution may not present evidence on crimes other than those proposed under the indictment, unless it considers such evidence necessary to establish an element of the indictment.
The Prosecution is to file an amended indictment and amended list of victims within two weeks of the date of this decision.
Mladic, former Chief of the Main Headquarters with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, is charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and violation of the laws and customs of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period from 1992 to 1995.
Radovan Karadzic, former President of Republika Srpska, RS, is on trial before the Hague Tribunal under charges for those same crimes.
The indictments against the former leaders of civil and military authorities in RS differ in certain incidents which are mentioned in Mladic’s indictment, but not in the indictment against Karadzic, and vice versa.
In its decision, the Chamber noted that the Prosecution proposed that crimes committed in Kalinovik and Kotor-Varos municipalities be retained, although those municipalities were removed from the indictment in the Karadzic case.
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