Saturday, March 3, 2012

Former Bosnian Serb Official Indicted

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Bosnia's state court added war crimes to the charges against a former Bosnian Serb minister on trial for allegedly embezzling millions and helping war crimes fugitives, the court said Monday.

Momcilo Mandic was justice minister in the wartime government of the most wanted war crimes suspect, Radovan Karadzic. As justice minister, Mandic was responsible for correctional facilities in the territory of Bosnia controlled by the Serbs.

Some of the facilities had "all the elements of a camp where many non-Serb civilians were illegally imprisoned," a statement from the court said in announcing the latest charge.

Toward the end of the war, …

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