Bosnia - War criminals surrender to SFOR

Описание: (14 Feb 1998) T/I: 11:11:09


Two Bosnian Serbs indicted on war crimes charges surrendered to the NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) on Saturday (14/2), becoming the first Serbs to give themselves up voluntarily. Miroslav Tadic, 60, and Milan Simic, 39, turned themselves in to police in the northern town of Bosanski Samac, in the Republika Srpska, and were transferred to a US-manned SFOR base six kilometres (four miles) away after saying goodbye to their families. SFOR officials said the two men would be transferred "imminently" aboard a NATO plane to The Hague, where the UN war crimes court is based. Tadic and Simic are part of a group of six Serbs indicted in June 1995 by the ICTY for "the arrest and detention of Bosnian Croats and Moslems" in the Bosanski Samac region where they were said to have set up camps where prisoners were "killed, beaten,
tortured, sexually and otherwise mistreated."


SHOWS:

BOSANSKI SAMAC, BOSNIA, 14/2
SFOR security;
various SFOR vehicles and soldiers;
people gathered;
SOT Miroslav Tadic, indictee in Serbian "This act of surrender is voluntary. No-one put any pressure on me from any side.";
SOT Borisav Branisic, lawyer in Serbian "We've done what we've done to protect ourselves. We were not involved in these crimes and all activities by Mr Tadic and Mr Simic are not criminal offences.";
c/a Serb policemen;
Milan Simic in wheelchair, leaving a building;
c/a people gathered;
SOT Simic in Serbian "My surrender is absolutely voluntary and I decided to surrender to the Hague tribunal. There was no pressure from any side to make me do this. The fact that I surrender says enough about my innocence.";
Tadic and Simic saying farewell their families;
various farewell;
getting into car;
driving off.

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