Former Bosnian Army general Naser Oric will to be extradited from Switzerland to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he is under investigation for war crimes, despite Belgrades plea for him to be sent to Serbia.
The Bosnian state prosecution confirmed there is an ongoing investigation against Bosnian Army wartime commander Naser Oric. Oric is currently being held in custody in Switzerland on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by Serbia. The state prosecution has asked Swiss authorities to extradite Oric to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and not Serbia.
Naser Oric, who was arrested in Switzerland on Wednesday as per an Interpol warrant, is due to appear before a Swiss prosecutor. Bosnian institutions still havent been informed as to the reason of his arrest.
Oric, the commander of Bosniak forces in Srebrenica, was arrested in Switzerland on suspicion of committing war crimes against Serbs near the eastern Bosnian town in 1992.
At the trial of Ratko Mladic in The Hague, a defence witness recalled a Bosnian Army attack on the Serb village of Kravica near Srebrenica in 1993 and said he was captured and tortured afterwards.
As the trial of Radovan Karadzic at The Hague continues, a former member of Bosnian police says that the top State leadership led by Alija Izetbegovic caused civilian victims in Sarajevo, including Markale market, and Srebrenica in a planned manner in order to accuse the Serb side and extort NATOs military intervention in favour of Muslims.
The Serbian prosecution is investigating former Bosniak military chief Orics role in the killing of Serb civilians in Srebrenica in 1992, although extradition to Belgrade is unlikely.
Testifying in defence of Radovan Karadzic, a former Muslim soldier says that between 1,500 and 1,700 persons were killed in the woods in July 1995, when the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina from Srebrenica attempted a breakthrough to Tuzla and that those people were not buried.
The Defence of Ratko Mladic suggests before The Hague Tribunal that the then President of Republika Srpska, RS, and supreme Commander of the RS Army Radovan Karadzic skipped the Main Headquarters of the RS Army in March 1995, when he ordered lower units to create an unbearable situation for Muslim civilians in Srebrenica.
Prosecution witness Evert Rave confirms at the trial of Ratko Mladic at The Hague that Srebrenica was not demilitarised prior to July 1995, despite an agreement reached in 1993, under which it was proclaimed a UN protected zone.